nsane.forums Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 ZTE Open with Firefox OSMozilla released the first two smartphones to carry the new Firefox operating system today. After early details were unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, the new operating system began to generate serious buzz. Mozilla partnered with Telefonica for the initial release, which is currently in Spain only. ZTE and Alcatel provided the design for the first two phones to carry the new Firefox HTML open source OS, each sporting slim touchscreen designs and very affordable price points. Both the ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire come standard with all of the normal smartphone amenities, including email, phone calls, text messaging, maps, camera (3.15 and 3.2 MP respectively), and naturally, Web browsing with Firefox. Users can also download apps, although they may not get too far on the internal memory. Fortunately, both phones have expandable MicroSD memory as well. Neither phone exceeds 512 MB of internal memory, and neither has an HD screen, but the €69 (~$90) price point, which includes €30 of credit for pre-paid users, more than makes up for the lack of sizzle. Both phones have highly respectable Adreno 200 graphics cards and 1 GHz Qualcomm processors. The Firefox OS is an open-source system, intended to compete with Android for developer attention, and the experience is reportedly similar to using an Android device. It was developed using HTML5, the language of the Web, which Mozilla hopes will make it easier for third party developers to produce apps. With HTML5 integrated onto an open source operating system, there's definitely a possibility that Firefox could catch on with that crowd, although it remains to be seen if the software has the performance or longevity to make a splash. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanedown58 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 If this becomes as app-supported as Android, Smartphones will be even cheaper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alhaitham Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Man, I'm hoping against hope that either this or the proposed Ubuntu OS does take off. :yes: Although I think I know better :(Actually, I wish Mozilla and Ubuntu were working together towards creating a common free and open source mobile OS community with the exact same apps working on both the platforms without porting/wrapping. They'd probably have had a better chance that way, though even then, that would've still been only a long shot :think:Anyways, best of luck to both FFOS and Ubuntu :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 4, 2013 Administrator Share Posted July 4, 2013 Mozilla and Ubuntu's aims are different though. Mozilla is more for the open web and open standards than Ubuntu is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 I like your idea calguyhunk and DKT is right but I rather prefer open legs than open web and open standards. Wuhahahahaha! Seriously, I wished no one owns an open source system like what they did on virtualbox and android.Those kind of opensource type under the umbrella of a company is still under the control of that company. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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