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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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[–] LordBelphegor@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I remember emulating it on my desktop.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I miss my nexus 6 shamu. I think that phone was the best that Google ever made even to this day.

[–] ignitionnight@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My Nexus 6 was the worst phone I've ever had. It aged like milk. It was so bad I jumped off Google phones and never went back. Getting the OnePlus 3T was like breathing fresh air again.

Edit: had the Nexus S and Nexus 4 before the 6, loved those phones... So jumping off Nexus was no small matter.

[–] SIGSEGV@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've had android phones since the G1. The Nexus One was pretty freaking sweet, but my favorite phone of all time was either the Nexus S or the Nexus 5x. The curved screen on the S was great and it fit into the back pocket of my pants "like a glove".

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still have mine in a drawer. Sure newer phones are taller but that thing was fucken WIDE. It felt more like a small tablet. I don't know if it's right to say that Google made it though; really it was made by Motorola

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[–] Cheese30@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I always thought those were really cool! I used to have the launcher they made for Android on my old Droid Turbo, and it was pretty cool! Then it stopped working when I got a new phone with a newer version of Android.

[–] plasticmonkey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember this, we had one phone in our country with it, but it was such a terrible phone. And now FirefoxOS is KaiOS....

[–] Tynox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a KaiOS phone made by Nokia. As a functional phone, it’s ok only if you just make calls or texts.

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