Hi everyone, first post here.
My 5yo (smart)phone has just died, and in the process of looking for a decent replacement that would both have 4G and be running Firefox OS —nothing like this is yet for sale in France where I live— I stumbled across this project.
Didn’t know it existed, I couldn’t care less about phone hardware 
Now I’m set on using a used dumbphone till FP2 is out no matter the OS, to me it’s just the right thing to do right now. BUT if this future product ran Firefox OS that would make it perfect to me. If it’s really too much of a step, a good tutorial on how to safely install it oneself would be fine by me.
I care about hardware well enough before I have the need to acquire some, no more no less, then I learn to be happy with what I’ve bought, because I should.
Anything I purchase, I do some homework on before coughing up the cash so I don’t regret anything about it (or as little as could be), and with hopes it’ll last as long as possible. Same for software, I learn what I need to learn to use something so it does it the way I like it. I learnt to install and maintain an Archlinux system, I suppose I could dive in the process of installing a phone’s OS if it can be done relatively simply too.
But then again if I could avoid that altogether that would save me (possibly) a lot of time I’d rather spend playing music or reading or sleeping.
I want to not use Android because I think Google is way, way too fat a company already. Remember how everything is owned and done by one business in Wall-E, that movie about Earth people who trashed the planet so bad they had to leave it. Well to me Google could well be that. They’re efficient, I don’t believe they’re altogether evil (some friends think I’m wrong here…), but I’m very, very uncomfortable on how reliant on them we already are. Web browsing, Youtube, maps, telephone… What’s next, breathing ? Well they did try seeing…
I like to do things the way I like them, not the way everybody likes. If my way is everybody’s, good. I like breathing, so do you, breathing is open to everybody, everybody’s happy with it. Same for using the alphabet, no patent here.
If my way is not everybody’s, I do what I have to do, and given I stick to my principles and I have something to say about it, sometimes it appeals to people. I’ve converted plenty of non-computer-savvy people to using Linux, they couldn’t be happier. These people in turn converted a few others… My point is, if something makes sense, people will come to it.
That’s why I strongly believe that using an open phone OS should not scare us away, it should make us proud we could be the ones that really helped it take off.
When I started using Linux I had dependency problems, installing wifi drivers was a pain and to have my screen display its full resolution involved my learning some weird syntax in some weird config files. But it did what I wanted to eventually. Today I’m using Steam to play recent video games in effing Linux ; to the user I was in the beginning this is tantamount to walking on the moon. A user base has to start somewhere, and my experience proved it to me that you can be part of a something that grows into something big enough for it to do even what you didn’t even hope it could ever do.
Fairphone makes sense to me, and using an OS that’s
1/ not from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook
2/ open
makes sense to me. Both in the same machine would just make things right to me.
Thank you for hearing me out.
tl;dr:
Provide geeks an easy guide to installing Firefox OS on an FP2 shipped with Android, everybody’s happy.
) running android.
