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Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone (jemmy.jeena.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So development was abandoned, whatever happened with the Ubuntu OS for cell phones?

[–] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre 16 points 2 years ago

Community maintained, still gets updates and features from time to time.

https://ubports.com/en/

[–] LOGAN 9 points 2 years ago

It still exists but only officially supports google nexus and some niche phones. I don’t think it’s going anywhere but I do hope to be wrong someday. At the moment there are options like GrapheneOS to run Android without letting Google into all your shit by default.