I’m over halfway through my second iPhone contract and really couldn’t imagine life without a smartphone. But iPhones are way too expensive. Although they’re great phones, there are much more capable devices out there. Android’s never really appealed to me, but I do want to try an alternative to Apple at some point in the future.

I’ve been watching the development of the Ubuntu phone for a while now, and it’s finally looking like one will be released later this year. It may not be the desktop replacement originally planned, but it looks gorgeous. And the release should fit in nicely with the end of my current contract.

Meanwhile though, there’s Firefox. Admittedly, it’s a far less capable phone, since it’s aimed at the lower end of the market, but it might be worth testing.

And they’re on eBay already.