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Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.
It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.
So development was abandoned, whatever happened with the Ubuntu OS for cell phones?
Now it is Kai OS
commercially, but there's also https://capyloon.org/
offering a GSI too, so if you have a modern Android lying around you can install it
OS aside, the Nexus 5 was boss.
I spent a couple weeks in Poland exactly in August 2013 and I distinctly remember a huge Firefox OS billboard on the Warsaw Central train station building.
I forgot this even existed. I had the HTC One and/or Galaxy S4 around this time.
Loved my HTC One
So sad it didn't take off, I would love to have an alternative to Android or iOS right now
I also got one (not sure which model) to play around with.
It was... okay. It very much felt like an alpha release. Lots of features were broken or simply missing.
I should have it in a drawer somewhere
How was Firefox OS on the Nexus 5?
As far as I remember much more fluid to use but still riddled with all the bugs.
I wish so much that there was a solid Linux phone that was just as viable as any android-based device.
There are some options, but nothing that just works.
Rad! I just threw ubuntu touch on my nexus 6p... Far from perfect, but a great premise of a new era!
