[Ilugc] Firefox OS Phone sale now in India
- From: arun289@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Venkataswamy)
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:16:11 +0530
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Karthikeyan A K <77minds at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 27 August 2014 12:30 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os
http://www.snapdeal.com/product/intex-cloud-fx/1356760619
And its so cheap!! Hope its developer friendly too, here is a news
writeup about it
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/reviews/intex-cloud-fx-indias-cheapest-smartphone-first-impressions-581818
I sincerely hope the device is good.
But looking at the specs simple logic says unless the firefox os does some
magic the user experience is not going to be that great. I wish to be be
proved wrong. I am going to order for that device anyways to experiment. I
have an android smart phone with low internal storage and low memory and it
is virtually unusable as a smart phone. Works great as a phone though. I am
not stupid to expect something like an iPhone or an S3 at Rs.2,000/- but
worried about the os's reputation running on such cheap hardware.
IF the experience is not good (we don't know yet), can't believe that
Mozilla would do something as stupid as this. Cheap is cheap. I remember
the proliferation of android devices on cheap unbranded Chinese phones
which got 'android' a cheap tag - bad battery, bad display, not responsive
etc. Consumers do not know to differentiate between hardware shortfalls and
the os. If Mozilla thought by partnering with a local company and throw a
cheap phone at us Indians it is rather sad. They could have atleast
demanded to have one good spec device in parallel. The phone in question
does not have 3G connectivity and the rather uninformed consumer will
comment to a friend 'firefox os cannot do 3G and they call it a smart phone
OS'.
Regards,
Arun
Arun Venkataswamy
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