It's times like this when I really wish I wasn't on Verizon and locked into their proprietary wireless protocols. I would love to buy this hardware and check out FFOS.
I just finished building Boot2Gecko's emulator-x86 after reading about the ZTE Open on HN a few weeks ago. I'm really excited by Firefox OS - so much that I can't wait to ditch my iPhone for one of the B2G dev kits.
That takes all of the fun out of it. BTW this weekend I will be updating the build docs for people wanting to compile B2G targets under Ubuntu Server 13.10-beta2.
Does anyone know if Firefox OS is being auto-updated to devices like desktop Firefox is? Auto-shipping a new release every 6 weeks would give them a real leg up against android and ios.
In theory it is being auto-updated every X weeks (not sure if it's 6). There is also a setting to update immediately when a new release is available which is on on the developer phones. In practice there is a bug[1] and this functionality is currently not working.
Now if they would just fix the "update/reboot/update/reboot" endless cycle on the software that came on the ZTE Open... It wants to repeatedly reapply the same update over and over.
What exactly do you mean "it can be used"? Do you mean "can it be delivered"? The answer to both questions is yes, you can order from the UK store and it will be delivered and it will work.
I mean: "does it work with local carriers here if I put a generic sim in it from o2.co.uk", I take your answer to mean yes? Which, if the case, is superb, I do not much care for the IOS or Android ecosystem (though much less for the former than the latter) so having Mozilla backed phone would suit me very well!
Sounds great, just as long as Mozilla doesn't jump the gun and brazingly decide to implement WebP support before having waited at least five or six years. Due diligence baby, the name of the game, also etiquette, over at bugzilla.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...