ZTE Open

AnonD-605574

hi somebody know how i can change from firefox sh...t firmware to any version android less 4.0.3

Anonymous

I'm extremely sorry about this post(created by me on october 22,2014 at 15:37), my phone is ZTE open C , not ZTE open. So the post is irrelevant to this thread. Please ignore this post. I apologize for my post again.

Anonymous

There is something wrong with the power management. Sometimes the phone shut down automatically even though the battery is not empty. The power button didn't work ; every time I had to take the battery out and put it back again to switch the phone on.

AnonD-24757

Too bad phone, low RAM, many errors, and works very slowly. And the best is that Firefox OS is Android OS, but i prefer 100 times Android, Firefox very wrong system for me, it has many errors

Rigin Oommen

Use the above app to access whatsapp face book and more services

AnonD-288000

There is as of yet no official whatsapp client for FF-OS however there are some alternatives. Personally i use A2Connect and i have no issues communicating with my whatsapp friends.

Gova

does watsapp work on this phone???

Zarrin

Cool

Mac

A nice simple, intuitive mobile telephone. It does what it says "on the tin."

AnonD-213188

I would gladly buy this phone from you. Game?

foxphone

This phone does not claim to be of the highest specification. For what it is it performs well. The initial applications are basic but can be added to from the market place.

james

I have it, so awesome, if update software them..could winover to Android!!

Unlucky Duck

I Don't like this phone. It is complicated and slow. I kept it to long to send it back. I would rather have a bag phone. I hope it sinks to the bottom of the river when I throw it in. To prove I own this phone the IMEI is 865460010289205 Come on ZTE scrap this piece of junk. I had another ZTE phone loved it.

FFOS

Very bad start, at least they could have also released a phone with double the specifications for the developed markets. The design is very round and does not look good. the color is very bright and not everyone likes it. Don't buy this phone. You will only encourage it. If this is based only on web, then you need a plan to have a lot of data?

Sent it back

I had to send it back. ZTE is not providing updates to this phone. Firefox 1.1 has been out for two months, nothing from ZTE, no support from Mozilla, unofficial builds of 1.1 by third parties may _brick_ the phone. This is NOT a good start for FirefoxOS. As a developer, I am supposed to be the target demographic for this phone, but ZTE's lack of updates is concerning. Save your $$$, get the Geeksphone, or the LG Fireweb instead.

Betar

I don't mind the low specs for a low price, but the huge radius on the rounded corners and the lifeguard orange colour are so ugly. I'd like to have more colour choices and a more "blocky" look.

Curious Mobiler

Just gave the ZTE Open a test run with an eye, or should I say EAR, to performance. When it comes to screens and swipe functionality, etc. let's face it, a smartphone is a smartphone. We figure stuff out. What we can't learn to live with is bad audio quality. THANKFULLY, this phone passes audio quality spec tests (hooked it up to some Sony monitoring gear I use in broadcast work, spec against an Apple iPhone 5 and older model Sony Ericsson Experia S12 I have lying around). Not too bad! Wouldn't recommend the LTE Open as a studio music recorder/player, but noise levels are fairly low and the fidelity works for casual listening. Next step: The Club test, running tracks in place of the iPhone we use now! Raggles, San Francisco

Anonymous

It's impossible to write a review of this phone without finding what you are really reviewing is Firefox OS. The hardware, like the specifications suggest, is adaquate. Like a smart yet bored C student, the phone passes, but you can tell the OS gives hints of a quiet brilliant potential inside. Battery life is average. The screen is average. The camera is average. The speaker and microphone are average. In this since the phone is barely worth reviewing in that the charts above have already told you what you need to know. But then we come to the Operating System. This is what is different. This is what has a few geeky souls going against their specification-addled brains to buy this average phone. So let's get on with that. The phone ships with version 1.0. There is a 1.1 update that addresses speed but you'll have to wait until ZTE pushes that out. As it is, there is minimal lag with version 1.0 on this device. The Phone and texting functionality work well as expected. Unless an app is using it, WiFi turns off when the device goes to sleep. This is annoying as I don't have a data plan but spend 90% of my day sitting next to a wireless router. This means to see if I have gotten any new email, I must wake the device, wait for the WiFi to connect, start the email app, and then refresh the app, and then scroll to the top to see any new messages. The built-in email application does what is supposed to do. It does not follow the threaded, conversation style formatting that gmail uses, however. So if you have a long conversation going the text gets pretty small so it can fit in all of the replies. The music player works. It tries to be smart about it and displays artists as tiles that you scroll through. Lag is mostly apparent here if your music collection is huge. The Firefox OS Marketplace is mostly a bare cupboard. But this is inherent for any new mobile operating system. This ecosystem hasn't bloomed yet, and will not ever be like iTunes or the Google Play store, but I have the feeling something will become of it. Internet browsing turned out to be surprisingly flaky. One would assume if the OS is named after your flagship browser, it ought to work well on the mobile side as well as the desktop side. Sites like realtor.com and tripadvisor don't really work. Other sites don't yet recognize the brower as a mobile one, so you end up zooming a lot. All in all, this phone is priced right at $80. Firefox OS is immensly promising and as long as ZTE rolls out updates in a timely manner, the Open is a perfect vessel to enjoy being part of this new ecosystem as it grows.

Tree Hugger

Able to access web sites but can't go any deeper within those sites. For example, Realtor.com, then try to enter search perimeters and it's a no-go. Dead in the water. Very frustrating. Phones are going back.

AnonD-94196

this is very good to see firefox in mobile os plz update or upgrade to 1gb ram 16gb memory capacitive tuch 4g battry 3000mah to 5000mah] all file support like hd video ,pdf , zip ,office document bluetooth 4, usb3 , nfc etc i think this os will beat android os plz do not beat wp8 becase this os is very poor os till date

Debb

Thanks ... not too encouraging findings, I must say. But this is an OS under construction. May be the OTAs will gradually improve it. I do not mind though the likeness to Symbian (is was one of the simplest OSes ever). Regarding the speed/ laggyness, well it is an entry level phone (it's a ZTE after all!), so expected. Hope the battery consumption is decent.

Buttons Up

Hi Debb. Having owned and used the phone for 24 hours now, I could say that it somehow feels as if I was using a phone with a Symbian OS. If you have been accustomed to high-end smartphones, you would definitely notice the sluggishness. The web browser is decent, but while browsing I would often find myself tapping on the screen several times before something actually happens. Either it's because of the phone being slow or because there's something wrong with the screen, I just don't know. Might be the latter because I would often make typos while composing a text message when I would normally be spot on with my other phone. Was advertised as able to handle 32GB micro sd cards so I put one in. Put music on the memory card, about 800+ tracks. The music player refreshed afterwards and showed the right number of tracks. The problem is that the music player crashes 5 to 10 seconds into any track. Speaker seems to be loud. Call quality is clear for me. That is all I can say about the ZTE Open right now. But I could definitely say that the fOS needs to be improved still, as features look half-baked to me.

Debb

Review please ... from anyone owning this phone ... battery life, lags if any, screen resolution, speakers, reception ...

AnonD-1385

As everybody says, it's an entry level phone and it's not overpriced. Can anybody tell me how many colours are in the screen? Is it 65k, 256k, 16M? I can't find this info anywhere on the web.

Joe

Would like to see this phone with Gorilla Glass and a better camera. Otherwise, great job.

AnonD-177373

I received mine in the post today. It came with a 4GB SDCard, not 2GB.

Max

In example in Lithuania unlimited internet IS 10$, actually it is pretty, I would say 10$ is even too expensive for Lithuania.

Debb

I like the concept. The device looks nice too. I do not have ANY problem with the stated screen size, chipset, RAM or battery)as I fully understand it is an entry level smartphone replacement. I would have only preferred a higher screen resolution (to the tune of 200 ppi would have been enough, but again, that would eat up battery). They should make this one made available in India before the festival season i. e. October. Improvements can follow afterwards. I am waiting eagerly.

Versed

Got one from ZTE Open's Ebay store with free shipping to my home. I have no illusions that this is anything but an entry level phone, but nice for a back up phone, or to play around.

what we need

what we need from browsing/streaming/app ~4-4.3 inch screen with IPS LCD IGZO display ~1ghz dual core at 28nm die size (qualcomm got s4 snapdragon the problem is the cheapest 1 using 45nm) ~1gb DDR3 ram ~support 3G at least 21mbps speed ~32/64GB internal memory, memory card supported ~wireless AC 5ghz ~bluetooth 4.0 ~battery 2300mah ~give us internet without quota at 10usd dollar per month ~sell at price 190 usd

nuna

A Freedom model for Cell-Phones(true property ownership). Imagine, a device that I won't just pay for ("own to rent" the opposite of "rent to own") but I will actually own it without Apple, Google or Microsoft telling me what I can do with it. Sign me up! It's my patriotic duty to buy one of these.

Anonymous

So that it is affordable.

AnonD-175056

Because Firefox os is HTML5 based so it is not resource hungry like android. But at-least they should add good camera and screen.

zebarnabe

Firefox OS is targetted as a budget smartphone, though, like the first S60 touch phones, they might be under spec'ing it a bit too much... I just hope that the OS is light enough to run well with 256MB of RAM without cutting too much in the features... Battery and screen could be a tad better for the price as well....

Anonymous

Why do they need to make the first Firefox OS phone so powerless?

Anonymous

I want it. Singapore

AnonD-167988

Yey, finally found an online shop that sells it and ships worldwide. Direct link to ZTE OPEN: Enjoy!

AnonD-117275

Get a developer phone from Geeksphone: www.geeksphone.com

armdong

How to get the FireFox OS mobile?I am a chinese developer.

sho

i want it... Australia

Madb

So what's about the battery life?

AnonD-161881

gimme gimme gimme! where to get and when?

Andy

I want it. Germany.

kingofDROID

i want it, ready to firefox os is more like iOS than as a Linux in it...lol! what is music player in it? WMP? xD

jackreacher

since we still do not have a firefox in the market as yet, it would be hard to say which one is better with conviction� but on paper as firefox is built mainly for lowrange phones it is expected to be light and resource insensitive, hence more frugal with battery

rk

Long time battery backup for which(android or firefox) one better.pls tel me. Thank q for advice.

AnonD-131105

Hi i am waiting for this phone to buy as its a first ZTE phone with firefox OS. hope its outstanding. really can't wait to buy it.

Morgan

Wait for the Opera OS till this year end which is going to outclass evrythng.

AnonD-80656

it is a low end device and mozilla rocks. it will be open source and better than android

fgfag

Maybe because Firefox OS is optimized so it doesnt need a lotta RAM like android.

apacheboy

256 mb ram...lol

deceptor

if u dont need, tat doesnt mean others will stop using. when android was out, everyone was wondering the same-we have ios,windows os, symbian y do we need android?

E_bahrul

Firefox OS?

AnonD-71308

I was real impressed by that mid range dev phone but it's real far from impressive.

AnonD-92238

We don't really need another OS

AnonD-77892

Nice