Mozilla’s smartphone operating system, Firefox OS, is being installed on mobile phones made by its partners, like Alcatel, Huawei, LG and ZTE, which will retail for $25 and be targeting fast growing emerging markets where users are unwilling or unable to be tied in to long term contracts. Their Firefox OS phones will give multimedia capabilities on a pay as you go account.
As for Firefox OS, I like the idea of being able to operate a mobile device without Android, i.e. without Google knowing everything I do. It looks like Firefox OS will capture market share as quickly as Firefox browser did, as the FOS captured 7% of developer mindshare in just six months.
Firefox OS phones will be on sale this year.
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