18 Carriers Sign Up for Firefox OS Phones

Several readers sent word of a Mozilla announcement that 18 carriers have committed to launching phones running Firefox OS. The carriers are primarily from markets in South America and Europe. They include Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, and Sprint. The devices running Firefox OS will be made by LG, ZTE, Huawei, and Alcatel, and all will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. The new mobile operating system is built to allow HTML5 apps to run directly on the device, a solution Mozilla thinks will give it an edge when playing catch-up to all the software available for Android and iOS devices. "Developers are busy and don't have time to learn a new programming language. We believe that the only remaining eco-system is the web and there are more developers for the web than for any other platform in the world," said Jay Sullivan. According to Reuters, "Mozilla will initially look to compete in so-called 'emerging economies' in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia, where many people still use older phone models and have yet to upgrade to more expensive smartphones that feature touchscreens and high-speed Internet connections."

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Seriously.. no.

[Dynamoo]

Allowing a web page to have complete access to the device.. what could possibly do wrong? Oh that's right.. pretty much everything. Firefox OS is likely to follow in the miserable footsteps of Java, ActiveX and .NET when it comes to security nightmares.. assuming it every becomes popular. When everybody else is trying to sandbox the browser from the OS, Mozilla go and do the opposite. Bad move.

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