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Is there any way to get your hands a dev phone without being a mobile app developer rockstar (I assume they give them away to these guys/girls)? Alternatively is there a method to get your hands on the OS and load it on an android phone to play around with?

The simulator is great and all but I love seeing the finished product on an actual phone.

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http://www.geeksphone.com/ Went on sale about a week ago. I think they're sold out though

They put a few more up every day.

Each day they go through the cycle:

  - shop is down, has a white page saying that the shop will
    be up again "in the following hours"
  - the shop goes live
  - the shop sells out
  - the shop is up, but says "Out of stock" on product pages

It runs ok on a Nexus S http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/04/22/running-firefox-os-on-ne...

If you can't snag a developer phone, there is support for building it for a limited number of android handsets. Compatible devices: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/... Installation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...

I think they are afraid of showing real-world performance to soon...

Everything was developed in the open from day 1. We are not hiding anything there. If you get a Keon from Geeksphone, you'll get a good idea of how it performs on low-end hardware similar to the one that will be sold by the first carriers. And it's pretty good I think. (disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla employee working on b2g)

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