Alcatel and ZTE are the first phones with Firefox OS, the final name of Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko. It is a mobile operating system where everything runs in a browser.
At the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Mozilla introduced the first two smartphones running the new Firefox OS – ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire. One Touch Fire has a 1GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, a 3.5 inch HVGA display and a 3.2 megapixel camera; while ZTE Open also has a 3.5 inch screen (480 x 320 pixels) and has a Cortex A5 processor, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Specifications are not impressive; however it is obvious that these phones will not cost much, concentrating on the still large group of people who are not in possession of a smartphone yet. Mozilla also announced Huawei and LG devices with Firefox soon to come.
Here is the specification summary of the first two Firefox smartphones:
ZTE Open
- Firefox OS
- 3.5″ HVGA touch screen (480x320px)
- 1.0 GHz Cortex-A5 processor
- Qualcomm MSM7225A chip Snapdragon
- 512 MB ROM, 256 MB RAM
- 114 x 62 x 12.5 mm
- 3.2 MP camera , 2048 × 1536 pixels
* price: ~ 80 euros
Alcatel One Touch Fire
- Firefox OS
- 3.5 ” HVGA touch screen
- 1Ghz processor
- 512 MB ROM, 256 MB RAM
- 115 x 62.3 x 12.2 mm
- 3.2 MP camera, 2048 × 1536 pixels
* price: ~99 euros
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