Geeksphone's Firefox mobile phone - Another collectible handset for the Museum of Mobile History
However, with the recent closure of Geeksphone's mobile handset business, I thought that I'd revisit my hankering for something different.
Geeksphone had been making a phone running the Firefox OS, and when the first Firefox phones entered the UK market via eBay, I was intrigued.
The first Firefox mobiles were cheap and cheerful. If they had actually worked, then they might even have helped to sink Nokia/Microsoft's emerging Windows Mobile OS.
But, this new OS still has a long way to go, and you won't be picking one as your main handset unless you really want to be vastly different and leave yourself open to all sorts of potential usability issues.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to try one out as a bit of a change, but for me I'm not sold.
I do wish that there was more choice in handset operating systems. I'm currently quite happy with Window Phone, having had years of being cemented in to the Google ecosystem and grown sick of the need for constant updates and upgrades.
iOS is not for me - mainly due to the stupidly high price of their products.
BlackBerry is ok, but once again their handsets are out of the "try it to see if you like it" price bracket.
Samsung's Tizen OS? What's that good for? And aren't most people sick of Samsung's Touchwiz tainting of Android, not to mention their bloatware?
There really isn't much choice: It's Android, iOS, Windows Phone or BlackBerry - and none of them are perfect.
I'm sure that there is a bit of a future in Firefox as a mobile phone OS, but it's far from clear how, when and why this might happen. Symbian has almost as much chance of making a comeback as Firefox does of becoming a major player at the moment.
