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Firefox OS has been rebranded as KaiOS since Mozilla stopped working on it, and it has been gaining significant market share since then. A $5 LTE bar or flip phone based on a Qualcomm 205 with 128MB of ram isn't able to run Android (especially not in a fast manner), but it will run KaiOS just fine.

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Can you link to a $5 flip phone with Firefox OS I can buy today?

The JioPhone is effectively offered for free, with a ₹1,500 ($21.60) deposit that is refunded after 3 years. To be precise, it's a candybar phone that runs on KaiOS (forked from Firefox OS, closed source).

https://www.jiophone.com/

I was looking for an unlocked option that would work in the US.

afaik there are no unlocked phones that exist that run KaiOS(outside of tinkerers in shenzhen)

You cant get the source code. Reliance telco does not care - nor does KaiOS people.

So you're encouraging Mozilla to create more abandonware?

If it has a reasonable chance of not becoming abandonware, sure. I'm sick of people being so pessimistic. Imagine if Google stuck to search and never released new products. Maybe some people would prefer that but personally I can't live without Google Maps for instance.

And how much money do you donate to Mozilla to fund their abandonware habbit?

Why are you being so anti innovation? I could pass it off as opinion for a few comments, but this comment section is now littered with your comments that all seem to say that mozilla shouldn't bother developing anything new. Do you have skin in this game? Did you get personally burnt by mozilla somewhere along the line?

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