SHIFT5 - Decent hardware and: “Warning: Smartphones can be timekillers.”

After sending in my Alcatel One Touch Fire E with Firefox OS for repair, I tried to grab a nice phone for the meantime - or beyond …

I’ve settled with the affordable SHIFT5 desigend by a small company in Hesse. The producers started with crowdfunding the SHIFT7 - a phablet - but also produce a 5 inch smartphone - which I’m now holding in my hands.

It is advertised with:

• Best effort to produce it “fair”
• You don’t void your warranty by rooting

In addition to this, I am personally very happy that

• The feeling of the hardware is “solid”
• The Android is quite clean
• UMTS, EDGE, …
• Dual-Sim

Let’s see how the next few months will be.

Btw. This is the kind of hardware I’d like to see Firefox OS on.

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