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Firefox OS phones as cheap as $25 could launch this year (in developing countries)

Firefox maker Mozilla thinks smartphones can be cheaper… a lot cheaper. Earlier this year the company announced its intention to work with hardware companies to produce smartphones running Firefox OS software that could sell for as little as $25. Now it looks like some of those first $25 phones could launch in India and Indonesia […]

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Lilbits (2-26-2014): Shuttle’s fanless, Bay Trail PC

Shuttle has been making small desktop computers (and PC cases) for years. One of the company’s upcoming models looks like it could make a pretty nice media center PC (or point-of-sales or kiosk system). It features a 2 GHz Intel Celeron J1900 quad-core Bay Trail processor and passive cooling which means it shouldn’t make any […]

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Mozilla envisions a future with $25 smartphones

Perusing the specs for the latest Firefox OS smartphones, tablets, and reference designs, it’s pretty clear that Mozilla isn’t trying to dislodge Apple or Samsung from their thrones at the top of the high-end superphone space. Instead Mozilla is aiming low, trying to bring smartphone capabilities to folks in markets where high-priced phones may not […]