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FirefoxOS for the HTC Explorer/Pico

FirefoxOS you say? but that's just a dev project, it's never going to come out, au contraire my friend! a stunningly intelligent developer over at the XDA-Developer Forums managed to compile it on the trusty old HTC Explorer also known as the HTC Pico, now it is no way near fullly functional or daily driver worthy, things like the SIM card reader dont work (though some have reported it working) video camera, Bluetooth and a few other things, but other things are working, like Hardware Acelleration,the touchscreen and the still camera. But this is a first build, he hasn't labeled it as an Alpha or Beta so im just calling it a first release, but either way, some of the apps on the phone and some parts of the UI itself , are astoundingly responsive and snappy (for a 1st release), Things like scrolling in the Email client, or once its fully loaded scrolling in the twitter client,  and i keep saying this, things probably shouldnt be this good or a first release, this i...

Mobile-Dom Tech Talk Ep.1

Hey guys, this is Mobile-Dom' Tech Talk, this was the first episode, im not sure when the next one will be but others and these guys seem to want to do another one :) so hay-ho, i hope you enjoy, it's a bit long, im not going to lie but its a couple mates talking about tech, phones old and new, tablets and more -Dom