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  • MWC 2014: Huawei launched its first Firefox OS phone Y300

    MWC 2014: Huawei launched its first Firefox OS phone Y300

    Firefox_OS_Huawei_Y300Huawei made its debut in world of Firefox OS with Y300. The phone was showed at MWC 2014. The device runs FFOS 1.1 with its focus on stability. Regardless, the Y300 looks like much like its sibling FFOS devices in software and general build quality. The FFOS UI appeared mostly same on the Y300,

    It’s the first Firefox OS device to have dual cameras: a 5 megapixel camera on back and VGA for the front.The Huawei Y300 has a black, all made up of plastic with a power button up top and the headphone jack, volume keys on the right edge and a micro-USB port at the base.

    Donot confuse with Huawei Ascend Y300, the android smartphone its Huawei Y300 with FFOS. It seems Huawei is using the same basic spec as the earlier Android smartphone for its Firefox debut.

    Features of Huawei Y300:

    • 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon 8225 processor
    • 4-inch WVGA display
    • 512MB RAM
    • 1,950mAh battery
    • 5 megapixel camera on back & front VGA. camera
    • Firefox OS v1.1

    There’s no specific release date for Huawei’s Y300 yet, but expected a retail launch within the next couple of months. Price tag is also yet to be unveiled , But it would a affordable phone

  • MWC 2013: Mozilla presents first Firefox OS smartphones

    Mozilla conveyed a host of journalists, analysts and partners in Barcelona, just before the start of MWC 2013, for an event that saw the announcement of a number of smartphones and the formal launch of Firefox OS.

    Two phones were presented, the Alcatel One Touch Fire and the ZTE Open with handsets from LG and Huawei on the way. Mozilla’s CEO, Gary Kovacs, hinted that handsets based on Firefox OS would come to the US market in 2014 and confirmed that "there [mobile phone partners] are more coming".

    Motorola is out of the picture given its allegiance to Google. Nokia is an interesting option as Nokia HERE maps app is one of the featured apps on the new Firefox Marketplace; and since Firefox OS is not focusing on mainstream markets, the Finnish phone manufacturer might see Mozilla’s mobile platform as a fitting replacement for the Series 40 used in Asha.

    In total, 18 mobile phone operators across the world have backed Mozilla in its Firefox OS venture including Telefonica, Hutchinson Three Group, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom and Sprint. Most of the big North-American and some major European operators (Orange, Vodafone) have yet to bring their support to the platform.

    Firefox OS is a HTML 5-based operating system that, like its namesake, uses open web standards. Possibly its most important feature will be Firefox Marketplace which promises to radically change the dynamics of app development, monetisation, distribution and consumption.