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by smashing 5127 days ago
Gecko will NEVER render on a feature phone. The Mozilla team has repeated this statement again and again.
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dave1010uk 5127 days ago
A year ago feature phones were being released with 1GHz processors [1]. I wouldn't say never.

[1] http://www.gsmarena.com/1ghz_s40based_nokia_c3015_pictures_s...

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Drbble 5127 days ago
What OS do they run? It's hard to imagine porting to another OS with insanely tiny marketshare and weird APIs. What is the app publishing ecosystem on these phones?
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dave1010uk 5127 days ago
This phone runs Nokia's Series 40, which is running 1.5 billion phones - supposedly the largest mobile operating system. Perhaps this is a bad example though as S40 only runs Java ME & HTML5 apps. Still, I can easily see these feature phones running Firefox within a year. Firefox is, after all, open source.
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jarek 5127 days ago
Firefox on mobile is the new Linux on desktop... It's open source and you can see it being big next year, every year.
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