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I got this because I didn't want a smart-phone and it isn't smart at all. It was cheaper than many feature phones and about the same price as a used phone with a mainstream OS. It comes with a version of Firefox OS that's old that it can't connect to gmail anymore. I had to manually build and update the software to get the last ever version of Firefox OS, because it's not going to be supported anymore for phones. The battery is great because I rarely use it, so it lasts for 3-4 days in standby on a single charge new. If I had bought a used smart phone for the same price (iPhone3GS or and iPhone4 in poor condition), I wouldn't imagine that I'd get more than a day of battery life even in standby. The color and build quality is fine. It fits right in my pocket and I've hit/dropped it a few times while sitting onto carpet without damages.Read full review
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Works great as an unlocked phone. I just put in a Go Phone SIM card from Circuit City and I was ready to go in 10 minutes. It also works great in Europe with a T-Mobile SIM card. Battery life is longer than my old Galaxy S3. The display is good, but it's only 3 1/2 inches. There are a very limited number of apps available, because it's running Firefox OS 1.0. I could run more apps if I upgraded to Firefox OS 1.1. Ram memory and storage are very limited. It's a good basic phone but has very limited smartphone capabilities. I've been wanting to try a Firefox OS device for several years. These used to be $80, so I jumped on it when I saw it for $29. At this price, it's a pretty good deal.
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So here we have the ZTE open, the first major commercial release of Firefox OS. I bought this phone to replace my Atrix II on account of the latter's bad screen. I got a good price on it, and it came with a few accessories the previous owner had gotten for it. Before you decide to buy it, There are some things that you need to consider. For the good parts first. The operation system is Firefox OS. It's made by Mozilla, who make Thunderbird and the more well-known Firefox. The entire OS is built on top of Linux, and it consists entirely of web-based code (HTML, CSS, and Javascript). If you can make a web-page, you can make apps for this phone. Because of that, it already has a lot of VERY good 'apps' for it. You can go onto Mozilla's Marketplace and have a look around, most of the apps there will work on the phone. Another very nifty feature on the phone allows you to save mobile websites, and access them just as you would any other 'app' you've installed. I don't use the feature much myself, but I'd imagine many people do. It's simple, That can be a good or bad thing, but overall it's a good thing. You won't be getting lost in the settings menus too often. Now, for the phone itself. It's a fairly decent sized screen for the price, and it has a camera (though it's not that good), as well as a good external speaker. Aside from the connector being on the bottom and not the side, the layout is almost the same as an Android device. The FM radio has very good reception (you need headphones attached). The real part where this thing shines is the battery life. I got the Atrix working again, and put the two next to each other to idle. When the Atrix was beeping at me in panic, the Open sat at a cozy 70% Use time is even more pronounced. Now: For the Bad. This OS is NEW. It hasn't had the time in the field to get all the kinks worked out, yet. If you're used to a flip phone, this phone will do everything you'd expect and more. If you're used to Android like me, you're going to be crying from lack of Copy/Paste or the ability to set ring-tones (newer versions of the OS have ring-tone support, but that's another matter, we'll get to that). All of this wouldn't be a big deal, except that the phone itself isn't as 'open' as the name implies. The OS is available in source form, and you can compile the latest updates with newer features and fixed bugs. But due to some shenanigans, you can't flash those images onto the Open without rooting and then messing with the images directly. Obviously, most users wouldn't bother, but the billing of the OS and phone did lead to some shattered hopes on my part. Now, the device itself has some... quirks. And ti's even more annoying then the 'can't upgrade' bit. The headphone jack. It's not wired to the accepted US/Samsung/Iphone standards, it's wired in the Chinese standard. So hooking US made headphones into the phone causes all sorts of odd sounds to be heard. Considering the stock headphones are junk, that's not good. All in all, the OS has promise. And this phone will certainly serve anyone well as a first smartphone. But the more tech savvy might want to stick with Android, or wait for the Peak+ to hit the market, because that and the Geeksphone can be kept up to date easier.Read full review
This phone has several bugs, has multiple languages, your processor is very slow, is frisa, the contacts and the recent calls not are with their respective names and when access calls are in numbers and not to the person who is, when we are on a call and enter another changes automatically between one and another call.
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It last only a week and it locked by itself, got to remove for reset plus bunch to update every day or two, if not the phone won't work to call out / in? The WiFi horrible received only one bar or 2 even you seat next to transmitter. Firefox's SUCK.
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