Mozilla is planning to launch a '$25 smartphone' for markets in developing countries. The company announced plans for its FireFox OS for the next year at MWC in Barcelona today.
Firefox OS smartphones are the first devices powered completely by Web technologies to deliver the performance, personalization and price users want in a smartphone with a beautiful, intuitive and easy-to-use experience that is unmatched by other phones. Firefox OS has all the things users need from a smartphone as well as the things they want like built-in social integration with Facebook and Twitter, HERE Maps with offline capabilities, much-loved features like the Firefox Web browser, the Firefox Marketplace for apps and more. Firefox OS features a brand new concept for smartphones – an adaptive app search that literally transforms the phone to meet a user's needs and interests at any moment.
Firefox OS offers Mozilla-pioneered WebAPIs that unlock the power of the Web and enable developers to build fun and rich app experiences that were previously only available to proprietary native apps, which are fragmented by platform and not portable.
Xiaomao Xiao, Spreadtrum's vice president of software development added, "By integrating Firefox OS support with our smartphone platforms, we are providing our customers with flexibility and choice in how they develop and design their smartphones as well as access to the increasingly rich base of HTML5 applications that are available on this platform. We are pleased to work with Mozilla to expand Firefox OS support to all of our smartphone platforms to provide the benefits of open web technologies to consumers around the world."
Famous for its browser FireFox, Mozilla has partnered with Chinese low-cost chip maker Spreadtrum for the cheap smartphone which will run on Mozilla's own mobile operating system- the FireFox OS.
Analysts believe that the phone is likely to become popular among people looking to buy cheaper feature phones. In developing countries like India, feature phones are very popular due to their pricing and capabilities.
The company has also designed a trio of chipsets around the ARM Cortex A5 processor. Alcatel and ZTE are expanding their range of FireFox OS phones. Each company only sells one mobile phone each which are based on the FireFox OS. Alcatel will launch three new handsets, ranging from the low to mid-range. ZTE will launch two phones.
Huawei has also joined the FireFox league and will soon launch the Ascend Y300.
FireFox will launch on tablets soon as well and the OS is likely to get a major update this year.
Firefox OS smartphones are the first devices powered completely by Web technologies to deliver the performance, personalization and price users want in a smartphone with a beautiful, intuitive and easy-to-use experience that is unmatched by other phones. Firefox OS has all the things users need from a smartphone as well as the things they want like built-in social integration with Facebook and Twitter, HERE Maps with offline capabilities, much-loved features like the Firefox Web browser, the Firefox Marketplace for apps and more. Firefox OS features a brand new concept for smartphones – an adaptive app search that literally transforms the phone to meet a user's needs and interests at any moment.
Firefox OS offers Mozilla-pioneered WebAPIs that unlock the power of the Web and enable developers to build fun and rich app experiences that were previously only available to proprietary native apps, which are fragmented by platform and not portable.
Xiaomao Xiao, Spreadtrum's vice president of software development added, "By integrating Firefox OS support with our smartphone platforms, we are providing our customers with flexibility and choice in how they develop and design their smartphones as well as access to the increasingly rich base of HTML5 applications that are available on this platform. We are pleased to work with Mozilla to expand Firefox OS support to all of our smartphone platforms to provide the benefits of open web technologies to consumers around the world."
Famous for its browser FireFox, Mozilla has partnered with Chinese low-cost chip maker Spreadtrum for the cheap smartphone which will run on Mozilla's own mobile operating system- the FireFox OS.
Analysts believe that the phone is likely to become popular among people looking to buy cheaper feature phones. In developing countries like India, feature phones are very popular due to their pricing and capabilities.
The company has also designed a trio of chipsets around the ARM Cortex A5 processor. Alcatel and ZTE are expanding their range of FireFox OS phones. Each company only sells one mobile phone each which are based on the FireFox OS. Alcatel will launch three new handsets, ranging from the low to mid-range. ZTE will launch two phones.
Huawei has also joined the FireFox league and will soon launch the Ascend Y300.
FireFox will launch on tablets soon as well and the OS is likely to get a major update this year.
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