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 is probably more functional than even the most recent Ubuntu Touch Smartphone OS Builds which astounds me, and again, it isnt that slow, of course with a 600Mhz CPU and 512MB of RAM this is never going to fly, but it feels (responsively wise) like a Samsung Galaxy Y.

So if you want to check it out (for test purposes only) here is the link to the XDA-Developers thread :

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2197319

Now , back up first, and do so at your own risk, you are the only person responsible if something goes wrong, though honestly, to do this you flash a single .zip file, like an Android ROM, which is crazy easy, and if you cant do this, you probably shouldnt be doing this yet, read up a bit more on XDA.

-Dom

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