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Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.

It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is this? A phone for ants?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember a time when all of the companies were striving to make cell phones as small as possible. But as soon as touch screens came out that trend reversed.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

When we realized we could watch porn on them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The nexus 5 was peak size for a phone imo, it's a nightmare trying to find a decent 5" phone nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Iphone mini apparently is pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

decent 5" android phone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That size is discontinued

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nexus 5 was just peak EVERYTHING for that time. Badass hardware, badass display, size, design, everything about it was amazing even if it had no fingerprint sensor until the Nexus 5X and 6P.

God I miss when they made phones with love.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I got a oneplus one, that was good too

I want to see something like this but without the bezels

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

People have been praising some smallish Asus thing lately

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the original 3.5” iPhone. Absolutely tiny by todays standards.