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    Mozilla gives up on Firefox OS for smartphones

    Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by Tinderbox (UK), Dec 13, 2015.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    http://marketbusinessnews.com/mozilla-gives-up-on-firefox-os-for-smartphones/115670

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Dec 13, 2015
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  2. triturbo

    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    Really sad, the only smartphone that was able to boot within 5 seconds. Everyone else forgot that these are phones first and everything else second.
     
    triturbo, Dec 13, 2015
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  3. Ethrem

    Ethrem Notebook Prophet

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    My Note 5 boots in 6.5 seconds. Mozilla was doomed to fail just like Ubuntu. Niche at best.
     
    Ethrem, Dec 13, 2015
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  4. triturbo

    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    @Ethrem - Although, that's not exactly a phone in my book (if you can't use it freely with one hand it's not a phone for me), I guess one can find scaled down version, or even the same hardware in other models, so similar boot times. BUT when I said "within 5 seconds" I meant less than that and on constant manner, not a single occasion, and recent OSes tend to get slower once loaded with stuff, which wouldn't have been the case with FFOS, because of the way it works.
     
    triturbo, Dec 27, 2015
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  5. Ethrem

    Ethrem Notebook Prophet

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    Well I'm running a TouchWiz ROM. I've heard that AOSP boots in seconds. If I didn't use my S-Pen, I wouldn't run TouchWiz but it's so convenient to pull the pen and be able to select part of the screen and directly save it as an image, its functionality I use often.

    With that said, I don't mind two handed phones. I mean my last phone was the Nexus 6 lol. I can't go back to small phones.

    I just wish that the Exynos didn't hit 80C! Crazy for an SoC!

    But yeah, FFOS was doomed from the start. I can't believe they even tried. Samsung can't even get Tizen out there and they have the largest Android share!
     
    Ethrem, Dec 31, 2015
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  6. Nightwish

    Nightwish Newbie

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    So sorry to hear this...
     
    Nightwish, Jan 1, 2016
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