Mozilla presents phone operating system
2013-02-25 16:59
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Barcelona - The Mobile World Congress opened in Barcelona
on Monday, with Firefox presenting its new operating system for smart phones.
Mozilla, the maker of the popular Firefox internet
browser, hopes to compete with Google's Android operating system (OS) and
Apple's iOS for mobile phones, which dominate the market.
Since Mozilla is a non-profit organisation, whose Firefox
OS is open-source, developers of mobile phone applications will be free to sell
their apps without needing to share revenue with Apple or Google.
Mozilla hopes that its OS will further bring down mobile
phone prices.
It has won the backing of about a dozen wireless service
providers around the globe, including Deutsche Telekom, which wants to
introduce a relatively cheap smart phone made by the French-Chinese Alcatel in
Poland this summer, using the Firefox OS.
But the browser and OS maker hopes to score especially in
growing markets like South America.
The annual, five-day event in Barcelona, seen as the
world's largest exhibition for the cellphone and tablet industry, will also
feature new mobile payment methods and see companies like Nokia introduce smart
phones of under $265.
These would compete with high-end products from Apple and
Samsung.
All manufacturers are counting on a smartphone boom in
Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- SAPA
