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Mozilla's Mobile OS Can Make Smartphones Cheaper!
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"Mozilla's new platform could offer competition to the cheapest phone in Nokia's Lumia series, which will be shipped at 189 euros and runs on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system."
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012:
Mozilla is already doing great with its free Web browser Firefox and the company now aims to repeat history with its new open source operating system for mobiles that can slash the prices of the smartphones almost drastically.
Mozilla is currently working on a project dubbed as 'Boot to Gecko' which will compete with Google's Android operating system and Apple's iOS. With the help of this operating system, the OEMs will be able to generate smartphones which will be almost '10 times cheaper' than an iPhone. If you are thinking about the features, let us assure you, the OS promises to offer similar experience as compared to the other 'expensive' smartphones.
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Brendan Eich, chief technology officer, Mozilla, said, “We want to pioneer a category.” Speaking at the Mobile World Congress, 2012, Eich expressed his dissatisfaction towards the restrictions of a closed system and advocated a system which is open for competition.
He talked about a platform which is completely reliant on the Web. It means that Mozilla's upcoming OS will have all the phones capabilities, including calls, messaging, and browsing functions, which will all be web-based. Since it will be web-based, the need for much of the intermediary software will be removed, that requires large memory or speedy processors that make the smartphones expensive. Therefore, it will be able to slash the price of the smartphones considerably.
Mozilla has joined hands with Telefonica for this project. The company aims to ship phones running on the new OS this year.
Carlos Domingo, director of Telefonica Digital, sees this OS as a great opportunity for promoting smartphones in Latin America where smartphones are not catching on because of their prices.
Domingo said that Mozilla's new platform could offer competition to the cheapest phone in the Nokia's Lumia series, which will be shipped at 189 euros and runs on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system.
Diksha P Gupta, EFYTIMES News Network
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