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this dress and I'm here with the Alcatel OneTouch fire and the ZTE open which are the two commercial Firefox OS devices that were just showing off today there are also a couple of developer devices that were announced last month made by geeks phone and those are floating around as well but these are the ones that are actually going to be in consumers hands I don't know if you can really tell from video but they're pretty low-end devices and you can tell there's a lot of air gap here on the display not like your typical modern Android or iOS device and they're also pretty low resolution they'll katella has a glossy back it's kind of a sparkly orange finish here and the ZTE has a matte blue but they're both available in a variety of colors and I'm assuming the different carriers will launch different ones just going into the the UI here see if we can load up the verge and you can just tell us you're holding it that's really it's a really low end device I really know any other way to put it the components everything about it is obviously designed to be entry level and these are going to emerging markets you're not going to see either one of these launched in the US or in most European countries Western European countries so you know as it's a firefox based OS you would hope that the scrolling performance is decent the browser and it appears to be the rendering rendering is going pretty well but the OS on a whole I'm a little bit more unsure about different apps seem to perform differently there's some tap issue there and you can see that everything is just kind of rendering pretty slowly these are screenshots you can see we have some multitasking going on here everything is just loading really slowly so that's the fire then let's get the ZTE fired up and here we have some of the apps that are installed I've been told that these devices are offline but we'll see if we can get anything loaded here this is timeout Barcelona which is one of the offline apps that were that was demonstrated on stage this evening and this can be cached so that even if you don't have an active network connection i'm not sure if this edge is actually working right now you can still use it this is just pretty painful in places although again we don't know how much we can attribute to the bad network connection how much is it just the performance of the phone in the OS everything operates with just enough leg so that if you had been used to any other smartphone it would be a major bummer going to this thing but I can see how you're going from a feature phone it might be an okay experience hopefully by the time these things launched in the US in 2014 they're saying right now we'll see if that if that stands it will be running on slightly higher end hardware that performs a little bit better so those are the alcatel one touch fire and the ZTE open launching later this year probably around summer on a number of Eastern European and Latin American carriers