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Being burned by two FirefoxOS phones (mostly burned by not being to upgrade to anything latest and stuck to some version). So I'll be careful this time... But I so much wanted to try it out...


>Being burned by two FirefoxOS phones (mostly burned by not being to upgrade to anything latest and stuck to some version).

Which ones? I had the same experience with the ZTE Open C but found great community updates for this and other phones. Open C updates are this way: http://builds.firefoxos.mozfr.org/doc/en/devices/zte-open-c


I can't thank you enough! I haven't looked deeply into other sources, and used the phone as a normal user (I've borrowed it to a friend of ours, when they went to Italy for vacation (we are US based)), and then I used them again when travelling to Bulgaria.

Why FirefoxOS phones there? Because they don't draw much attention, they are cheap, and reliable for basic phone needs - calling, texting, even some browsing. Also the battery life is pretty good.

They are bit sluggish, but still much faster than other cheap phones.


You're welcome! They are quite hard to find. I accidently stumbled over the mozfr community builds while figuring out how to compile a current version myself :)




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