Mozilla’s Firefox OS is a smartphone operating system designed to run web apps. At launch, it’s expected to run on low-end and mid-range smartphones, and Mozilla isn’t necessarily targeting the biggest smartphone markets… at least not initially. CEO Gary Kovacs told AllThingsD that the first Firefox OS phones will launch in 5 countries this June. […]
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Firefox OS to have a certification program, kind of like Google Android
Mozilla likes to describe Firefox OS as an open alternative to existing smartphone operating systems. You can run the mobile operating system on pretty cheap hardware. It’s open source and customizable by operators. And since it basically runs web apps, there’s nothing stopping you from installing virtually any compatible app you can download from the […]
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Sony throws its hat in the ring of Firefox OS
Sony is the latest company to announce plans to release a phone featuring Mozilla’s open source and web-based Firefox OS. The Next Web reports that Sony and Spanish wireless operator Telefonica announced plans to launch a Firefox OS handset in 2014. The move doesn’t mean Sony is moving away from Android. Right now all of […]
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Mozilla launches Firefox OS with 23 partners
The organization behind the Firefox web browser is getting ready to launch its platform for mobile phones. Firefox OS has been in development for some time, but today Mozilla announced that it has 23 partners lined up to support the launch of the new smartphone operating system, including ZTE (who will build some of the […]
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Mozilla introduces Firefox OS developer phones
Mozilla plans to start working with wireless carriers and hardware makers to bring Firefox OS phones to market starting this year. Now the software company has unveiled the first phones designed to run the Firefox operating system: a developer phone with very basic specs. That makes sense, since Firefox OS doesn’t really need bleeding edge hardware. […]
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Smartphones in 2013: Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish to compete with Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone
7 Comments on Smartphones in 2013: Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish to compete with Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows PhoneAndroid and iOS pretty much dominate the smartphone space these days, although there are still an awful lot of BlackBerry handsets in the wild, and Microsoft is pushing its Windows Phone 8 platform pretty hard. But in 2013 we’ll see a few new players enter the market. It’s not clear whether they’ll make much of […]
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How to test Firefox OS with a simple Firefox browser add-on
The first phones running Firefox OS aren’t expected to hit the streets until early 2013. But you can take a pre-release build of the upcoming mobile operating system for a spin today. All you need is a computer running the Firefox web browser and a 64MB browser add-on called r2d2b2g. Just fire up the Firefox […]
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ZTE to launch a Firefox OS smartphone
Chinese phone maker ZTE is working on a smartphone that will run Mozilla’s upcoming Firefox OS. We already knew that, but now Reuters is reporting that ZTE says the phone will be ready to go later this year or early next year, giving us a the first idea of when to expect the new handset. […]
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Early build of Firefox OS ported to the Raspberry Pi
Nokia engineer Oleg Romashin has ported an early version of Firefox OS to run on the Raspberry Pi. Firefox OS is Mozilla’s upcoming operating system for smartphones and tablets. Like Google Android, it uses a Linux kernel, but Firefox puts a heavy emphasis on the web — all the apps it runs are basically web […]
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Firefox OS is going to look right at home on mobile phones
Mozilla’s Firefox OS is a smartphone operating system designed to run web apps written in HTML5 and related web technologies. But that doesn’t mean devices running Mozilla’s operating system will look like web browsers rather than phones. The first Firefox OS phones are expected to launch in Latin America in early 2013. Meanwhile, work on […]