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The Mozilla Firefox OS smartphones are a hit — with industry insiders. You know Mozilla for its Firefox Web browser, but now the nonprofit organization has entered the smartphone business. Just Tuesday, Mozilla debuted to developers two smartphones running its Firefox OS mobile operating system and it sold out in just a few hours. You can learn more about it in the video here.

Firefox OS is a new platform which will launch this year in Latin America and Europe. “The operating system is based on HTML5 and is intended to give users an alternative to ‘vendor-controlled ecosystems,’” Mozilla said in a blog.

Mozilla partnered with Spanish start-up Geeksphone to build and sell two smartphone devices, called, the Keon and the Peak. The two went on sale Tuesday but sold out almost immediately, reports The Los Angeles Times.

“In the first few hours of the Geeksphone store opening, demand has been overwhelming, surpassing initial expectations causing our store to be taken temporarily offline,” a Geeksphone spokesperson said in a statement.

The Keon is an orange smartphone with a 3.5-inch screen that runs on a Qualcomm 1-GHz processor and has similar specifications to what actual Firefox OS phones will have when they officially launch. It costs 91 Euros, or about $118. The more high-end  Peak costs 149 Euros, or about $194, and  features a 4.3-inch screen and runs on a Qualcomm dual-core 1.2-GHz processor. It also comes in white for those who aren’t thinking about Halloween all year round.

Sound enticing?

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First things first: THIS IS NOT A WHERE ARE THEY NOW? if you were wondering. Check back at the end of the week.

Anywho, while most actors, singers and more have chosen to let folks in on every single aspect of their lives thanks to their affiliations with social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr pages, reality television shows, and their quest to make errands a chance for a paparazzi photo op, there are a slew of big name artists who would balk at all that exposure. Some of the biggest names in entertainment over the years dropped albums, TV shows, had huge roles in movies and more over the years, only to disappear off of the face of the earth when the press and the people were calling for them. Why? Well, after reading the most recent issue of GQ, which profiled the rise, fall and re-emergence of D’Angelo, folks like Questlove eloquently explained it as “a crazy psychological kind of stoppage that prevents them from following through. A sort of self-saboteur disorder.”

Or maybe they just weren’t feeling folks all up and through their business and wanted to live like normal folks. Whatever motivates these artists to dip in and out of public view only they know, but we’re always happy when they come back. Here are a few, aside from the obvious Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo, who decided to step out of the spotlight when they were huge, but decided to come back later (before disappearing for a bit again).