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specc 2013-04-23 16:14
Firefox !!!
 
The Firefix phone is alive and available :)

http://www.gsmarena.com/firefox_os_r...-news-5903.php

Dave999 2013-04-23 16:49
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Great price indeed!!!. You can buy 6-7 of the cheapest instead of a highend, samsung, Nokia or apple :D

EDIT: Just placed an order for a KEON. Not sure what to do with phone...3 MP camera LOOOOOOOOOL :D

The phone Nazi: No phone for you!

http://shop.geeksphone.com/en/ the URL is dead for you!

juiceme 2013-04-23 17:06
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave999 (Post 1338261)
EDIT: Just placed an order for a KEON. Not sure what to do with phone...3 MP camera LOOOOOOOOOL :D
Hmph, what's the problem with a 3MP camera ??

Dave999 2013-04-23 19:38
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1338273)
Hmph, what's the problem with a 3MP camera ??
Nothing...if you bought the device 1998 :D Today we have bigger guns, let me tell you.

But who cares about the phone, it's a GEEKPHONE! ;)

Just look at all the GEEKS!

https://hacks.mozilla.org/wp-content...4/PhonesUp.jpg

juiceme 2013-04-23 21:58
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave999 (Post 1338321)
Nothing...if you bought the device 1998 :D Today we have bigger guns, let me tell you.
Actually, it came out almost 4 years later. And there are no bigger guns out there, albeit there might be few faster ones :D
And I bet I can take my 2000-ish camera and beat up anything you care to throw at me :)

reinob 2013-04-24 08:21
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1338273)
Hmph, what's the problem with a 3MP camera ??
Just say it's a quad-core 750 Super-KP+ camera with a Cornea sensor and you're all set. The press (or at least Engadget) will love it.

pichlo 2013-04-24 08:34
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1338273)
Hmph, what's the problem with a 3MP camera ??
Exactly. It's not the size, it's how you use it! ;)

Seriously, more pixels is not necessarily a good thing. More pixels on the same die size means the pixels are smaller. Which means more susceptible to shot noise and more easily saturated. In other words, you get pictures with more pixels but fuzzier and with with less dynamics. Burnt out bright spots and black shadows. Trust me, I know.

reinob 2013-04-24 08:44
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1338434)
Exactly. It's not the size, it's how you use it! ;)

Seriously, more pixels is not necessarily a good thing. More pixels on the same die size means the pixels are smaller. Which means more susceptible to shot noise and more easily saturated. In other words, you get pictures with more pixels but fuzzier and with with less dynamics. Burnt out bright spots and black shadows. Trust me, I know.
I'm not an expert, but yes, that sounds right. Obviously a *good* 3MP camera with a good (big!) sensor will beat the cr4p out of any smartphone camera.

BUT, Dave999's comment does have a certain truth in it. I bet Keon's 3MP camera (and Peak's 8MP's as well) is pretty much crap.

Half-Life_4_Life 2013-04-24 08:53
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Great!
New phones that aren't WP, iOS or Android. :)

NokiaFanatic 2013-04-24 09:16
Re: Firefox !!!
 
How does FirefoxOS interact with your contacts list, on-device database or the file system? Or can it even do that?

nokiabot 2013-04-24 09:44
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Lens size matters most megapixels are used just as hype to manupiulate people

juiceme 2013-04-24 10:52
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Half-Life_4_Life (Post 1338439)
Great!
New phones that aren't WP, iOS or Android. :)
As far as I understand, it actuall IS android, it's just runnig firefox OS as UI on top of the android layer...

Wikiwide 2013-04-24 12:48
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1338465)
As far as I understand, it actually IS android, it's just running firefox OS as UI on top of the android layer...
Quick reply...
No, Firefox OS isn't running on top of the Android layer.
There are three major software layers: Gonk, Gecko, and the HTML5 layer, which includes the Gaia user-interface.
Gonk consists of a Linux kernel and userspace hardware abstraction layer (HAL). The kernel and several userspace libraries are common open-source projects: Linux, libusb, BlueZ, etc. Some other parts of the HAL are shared with the Android project: GPS, camera, among others. Gonk is basically an extremely simple Linux distribution - but definitely not Android. No Java, for example.
Best wishes.

Half-Life_4_Life 2013-04-24 13:54
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Linux?
That's even better!
Thank you for explaining.

Dave999 2013-04-24 14:45
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Half-Life_4_Life (Post 1338498)
Linux?
That's even better!
Thank you for explaining.
What did you thought? It's a geek phone == linux.

juiceme 2013-04-24 14:59
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wikiwide (Post 1338482)
Quick reply...
Gonk is basically an extremely simple Linux distribution - but definitely not Android. No Java, for example.
Best wishes.
This time I am glad to know I was wrong :p

juiceme 2013-04-24 15:00
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave999 (Post 1338509)
What did you thought? It's a geek phone == linux.
Would you have any other kind of phone, and if so, why? :D

Dave999 2013-04-24 15:06
Re: Firefox !!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1338518)
Would you have any other kind of phone, and if so, why? :D
No other phones. This is my first, my last, my evertything. :D

www.rzr.online.fr 2013-09-24 21:04
any news, i am in rio brazil for a few days
and will try to hunt for those mozilla phones , where to find some ?
In telephonica/vivo shops ? They supposed to be launched in sept
But i havent see anything beside iphone/android devices...
Later


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