New Delhi: Mozilla has partnered with KDDI, LG U+, Telefonica and Verizon Wireless to bring its Firefox OS to a new range of phones - Flips, sliders and slates.
"The companies are collaborating to contribute to the Mozilla community and create a new range of Firefox OS phones for a 2016 launch in various form factors - flips, sliders and touchscreen 'slate' handsets - that balance the simplicity of a basic phone (calls, texts) with the more advanced features of a smartphone such as applications, content, navigation, music players, camera, video, LTE, VoLTE, email and Web browsing," said the company in a press release.
Firefox OS will be available from leading operator partners in more than 40 markets in the next year on a total of 17 smartphones.
The non-profit Organisation has also teamed up with Orange which will introduce Firefox OS smartphones in 13 markets. The 3G Firefox OS smartphone is exclusive to Orange and will be available from Q2 in 13 of Orange's markets in the region, including, but not limited to, Egypt, Senegal, Tunisia, Cameroon, Botswana, Madagascar, Mali, The Ivory Coast, Jordan, Niger, Kenya, Mauritius and Vanuatu.
We are yet to see a Firefox smartphone at a super-affordbale price, but Alcatel seems to be going in the right direction. The company introduced the new Orange Kilf Firefox smartphone that offers connectivity speeds of up to 21 Mbps, is dual SIM, and includes a two-megapixel camera and micro-SD slot. The Orange Klif is the first Firefox OS phone powered by a MediaTek processor.
Mozilla also revealed details about upcoming versions of Firefox OS. Some of them include improved performance and support of multi-core processors, enhanced privacy features, additional support for WebRTC, right to left language support and an NFC payments infrastructure.
The Firefox OS ecosystem continues to expand with new partners and devices ranging from the line of Panasonic 4K Ultra HD TVs to the world's most affordable smartphone.
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