At its’ Mobile World Congress event, Mozilla announced a partnership with Chinese chip-maker, Spreadtrum which has agreed to make chips for this extremely affordable smartphone. Mozilla believes that this low-end Firefox OS phone will offer a chance for people in developing countries to finally get rid of their feature phones and get online with smartphones.
“Firefox OS is off to an amazing start. We launched our first smartphones in July, and have since expanded into fifteen markets,” said Jay Sullivan, chief operating officer of Mozilla. “People in Latin America and Eastern Europe have eagerly upgraded from their feature phones to Firefox OS smartphones and now have rich access to the Web and apps. Sales have far exceeded our targets. But 2013 was just the beginning. In 2014, we are differentiating our user experience and our partners are growing the portfolio of devices. We are also enabling a whole new category of smartphone, priced around $25, that will bring even more people around the world online.”
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Without doubt this will definitely be a great opportunity for a lot of people around the world to finally own a smartphone without spending hundreds of dollars.
In addition to this cheap smartphone, Mozilla also announced a series of other high-end Firefox smartphones from several major phone-makers. You can read more about that here.
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