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| Keon on my diary :-) |
Two days back I received Keon, Firefox OS [1] developer phone by Geeksphone [2]. It was shipped under the program to ship devices to Mozilla Reps [3]. Since it was a mobile phone, it was detained by the customs, had to get the approval from TRC [4], a few other docs and in the whole process it cost me around 70USD. But the effort was worth enough and I am happy with the Keon on my palm.
The device is cool, nice design. The OS also is pretty much stable, just a few automatic restarts during charging. I tried some of the apps in the market place, the restarts may be due to those apps as well, not sure. Anyway I am going to flash it with the latest image [5] that is available there in geeksphone forum. In the current version (Build identifier 20130307190626) it supports contact sync only from facebook, which I dislike. It would be better if it can sync with Google contacts as well, since in my case, most of the contact numbers are in Google contacts.
Wi-fi, GPS, FM radio they works fine. I couldn't check the camera, gallery since I don't have a memory card right now.
My contribution to Firefox OS would be in terms of testing the OS and developing apps for the market place [6]. I will blog on those apps once I finish them and they are in the market place.
One last note, the S/N and the IMEI of the device is to be found in the package of the phone. It was looking for it in the phone settings and found only the IMEI. Thanks to Priyanka [7] I learned that they are mentioned in the package. Those who requested Keon and need to update their request in bugzilla, this may be useful.
That's all about Keon and Firefox OS for the time being and will write more on my experience with them and apps in future.
Reference
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS
[2] http://www.geeksphone.com/
[3] https://reps.mozilla.org/
[4] http://www.trc.gov.lk
[5] http://forum.geeksphone.com/index.php?topic=5207.0
[6] https://marketplace.firefox.com/
[7] http://priyankaivy.blogspot.in/
Nice work buddy keep it up.
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