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Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India

Posted by timothy on from the prosperity-sensors dept.

mrspoonsi (2955715) writes Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox browser, has announced it will start selling low-cost smartphones in India within the "next few months". Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, the firm's chief operating officer suggested the handsets, which will be manufactured by two Indian companies, would retail at $25 (£15) [note: full article paywalled]. They will run Mozilla's HTML5 web-based mobile operating system, Firefox OS. The firm already sells Firefox-powered phones in Europe and Latin America. Firefox OS has come a long way even in the year since we saw a tech demo at Linux Fest Northwest.

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  1. What about Apps ? by singhv · · Score: 3, Informative

    So developers have to start building apps for this OS ? There are $75 smartphones with android OS available in India. Windows-Nokia phone have not been able to catch up in the India although Nokia was leader at one point of time

  2. Re:Any chance at getting one? by gQuigs · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about $100?
    Announcement post; https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/...
    US store: http://item.ebay.com/291125433...

  3. For the Fi-curious by NotFamous · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can get a Firefox phone right now, available for use in Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States. It is $99, and comes with a 4-inch screen, dual core 1.2Ghz and 512MB RAM. It is the ZTE Open C, available on eBay. Just search for Firefox OS, and you'll find it.They link to it from the Firefox OS site. http://item.ebay.com/291125433...

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  4. Re:Your wish is available now by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps you missed the story yesterday where Google was making the app security on Android even less secure, and in such a way as to prevent users from disabling components which would block ads.

    Sure, you can install apps from other locations ... but there are some apps you can't install unless you root the phone.

    Google is no saint in this regard either. They have some illusions of open-ness, but they also ensure their advertising services and the like can't be selectively disabled.

    Hell, the very act of turning on the GPS in my Nexus 7 causes Google to prompt me to say yes to their own location services.

    Android stuff are almost as directly linked to that particular mothership as Apple or Microsoft.

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