With a rapidly growing market & new partners coming in, Mozilla has used the World Mobile Congress platform to launch 7 commercial Firefox OS devices, & a new self-service partner portal to fast track manufacturers & streamline bringing devices to market. The latter will enable manufacturers to resources & readily available brand information at one place.
In a press release here, Mozilla said it had also formed the ‘Open Web Device Compliance Review Board’ (CRB) along with its major partners globally, in order to define and evolve the process of encouraging API compatibility and competitive performance for open Web devices.
Meanwhile, teleco Spreadtrum has announced its first chipset on Firefox OS for US$25 entry level smartphone phones. The SC6821 redefines the entry level for smartphones in key growth markets.
2013 had witnessed a whole new range of Firefox OS devices on sale in 15 global markets, with 4 operators & 3 handsets manufacturers. Firefox has planned to expand in 8 more countries: Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama with Telefonica this year. Deutsche Telekom will also add 4 new markets: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia and Montenegro. After Telkomsel and Indosat joined the list of operators supporting Firefox OS, there are 21 key operators globally supporting Firefox OS open mobile ecosystem initiative.This list also includes partners announced last year: America Movil, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Hutchison Three Group, KDDI, KT, MegaFon, Qtel, SingTel, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia Group, Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, TMN & VimpelCom.
Operators such as Spreadtrum, Telenor, Telkomsel ,Indosat, Polytron, T2Mobile & Thundersoft were actively working towards WCDMA and EDGE turnkey reference designs for Firefox.
As far as technology and innovation were concerned, Firefox OS devices were first of its kind built on open Web standards, with every feature developed as an HTML5 application.
Mozilla also showed the forthcoming features of Firefox OS at its press event, demonstrating its flexibility, scalability, data privacy & powerful customization empowered users, developers & carriers, to create the exact mobile experience they wanted.
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