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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.

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[–] robert235@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I completely forgot Firefox had a phone.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facebook has phones too back then, though they're just Android with Facebook button.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Not long before Amazon came out with their spyware phone.

Seriously - they bragged about how the Fire Phone was always spying on you and still tried to charge $600 for it. Like three months later, they had to discount it to $99 and include a year of Prime.