Smartphones with Firefox OS could reach Japan

 

Japan has been identified as a potential market where smartphones that will run with the future of Mozilla's mobile operating system, called OS Firefox. The truth is that something weird would also be launched in the Japanese market as these smartphones, as stated, would be more oriented towards emerging markets of South America, and to our knowledge the Japanese market is emerging and Japan obviously not located on South American soil.

KDDI's president, who spoke at an event in HTML5, said they were considering the possibility of selling smartphones with operating system OS Firefox since the end of 2013 approximately.

Something that stands out about Mozilla's mobile platform will be based entirely on HTML5. So far, only two companies have confirmed that Firefox mobile OS created, and these are ZTE and TCL, while KDDI is assessing the situation.

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Announced Firefox mobile OS developers

 

Today we've been talking a bit about OS Firefox, the Mozilla mobile OS that is coming to the markets of South America and Japan probably in late 2013. Finally we have an official confirmation from the company, who have announced a device, a new mobile oriented for developers interested in creating apps for the new platform. The new terminals have been created in collaboration are Geeksphone and Telefónica. They have a screen 3.5-inch HVGA multitouch, has a 3 megapixel camera and the battery is 1580mAh. Under the cover we find a 1GHz Snapdragon S1, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of memory.

Other phone features include support for WiFi, microSD card reader, microUSB port, GPS, G-Sensor and light sensors and proximity. Also the phone is fully unlocked and can receive updates.

The idea behind this is obviously mobile developers to test the new mobile operating system from Mozilla and contribute to the growth of the same.

As stated above, Firefox OS is based on HTML5.

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