Alongside the name change, Mozilla also announced its hardware and
telecommunications partners for the Firefox OS consumer launch. The
focus will be on emerging markets and budget-conscious customers. The
first Firefox OS phones are expected to launch in early 2013 in Brazil,
on the Telefónica-owned brand Vivo, Mozilla said in a statement.
Mozilla’s hardware partners so far are ZTE and TCL
Communication Technology (which will be branding its phones as Alcatel
One Touch devices). Both Chinese companies are known for making
low-priced, entry-level hardware. Handsets from both ZTE and TCL will
run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, Mozilla said.
Among the wireless providers that are committed to selling Firefox OS phones are Sprint in the United States, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, Abu Dhabi’s Etisalat, the Philippines’ Smart, Telecom Italia in (you guessed it) Italy, Spain’s Telefónica and Telenor in Norway.
The Firefox OS is being built to exclusively run web-based HTML5 apps, which we demoed at the CTIA Wireless show
in New Orleans in May. The operating system and its included apps
display a ton of potential, and Mozilla’s Chief of Innovation, Todd
Simpson, said at CTIA that the company was focused on offering the open
web on smartphones, free of the walled-off app and content stores seen
on rivals such as Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS.
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