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Remember the Firefox Phone? (2022)

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Since KaiOS was already mentioned: If KaiOS feels to corporate or proprietary, check out Capyloon https://capyloon.org/

TIL of Capyloon, it looks pretty awesome.

> for privacy respecting Web Assembly plugins to bring code to your data instead of the other way around

This is really promising, I'm interested.

Firefox OS is actually still around in the form of KaiOS for budget phones.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

I owned 2 KaiOS feature phones in a row. Loved them. FM radio, web browser, no app store (yet).

Google account integration for calendar and mail, which I ultimately disabled.

A few bugs and a very simplistic Internet experience, but absolutely perfect for anyone who needs a constrained and limited device that's still useful.

Oh my, was just thinking about this phone this morning. God bless, R.I.P., never forget. So much potential, just too late to market. Hope the developing world will see it before it is too late.

I've got one in my drawer and no idea what to do with it.

Same -- like I put in the post, I have 3 (2x Fx0 and one other older one) :)

Maybe we just have to wait until people go back to unleashing the browser? The browser has only gotten better in the meantime, maybe the project can make a comeback.

I always wanted to own a Fx0, could not pick one up at the time due to monetary constraints, and would still like to have one and have been monitoring eBay unsuccessfully for quite a while ;-)

I would love for the open web on smartphones be unleashed again (since it would also help my beloved 'Linux Phones'), but I see the opposite happening: More and more real world services force you into apps that only exist for Google-played Android and Apple iOS.

> I always wanted to own a Fx0, could not pick one up at the time due to monetary constraints, and would still like to have one and have been monitoring eBay unsuccessfully for quite a while ;-)

Well what are you waiting for! Get in contact, I'd definitely let one go. I don't know what to do with them yet other than hold on to them :)

> I would love for the open web on smartphones be unleashed again (since it would also help my beloved 'Linux Phones'), but I see the opposite happening: More and more real world services force you into apps that only exist for Google-played Android and Apple iOS.

Luckily for us I think regulation is starting to go the other way. Also, I think of this more as a browser play than anything -- as much as people are locked into applications, more and more functionality is being allowed into the browser (look at the games and demos you can run in it today, and how well responsive sites can work) -- at some point the browser will be such a good platform that we might get another shot at adopting it.

The discourse around data safety and privacy has also developed -- not to a point that people care, but to a point that privacy can be a marketing term at least without being associated with criminality.

Not only the browser got better but also the rest of the system. As far as I know most modern GNOME apps should work well enough on a phone. A bit like how Windows 8 tried to unify mobile and desktop.

Charge it, at least. If it lies there for long enough at 0% battery power, the battery will get damaged.

But if it has a lithium battery, don't charge it all the way. The sweet spot for storage is somewhere around 60%.

Please when you come to comment sections like this be careful the comments you pay attention to, pretty much needed someone to spy on my man's phone so i know who he's cheating on me with.. only bohdanbohdan93 (@) mail . ru is legit the rest 5 claims i tried were fraud.. helping anyone in need of this information use no one else but this man i mentioned he recovers any hacked or locked account too

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