Smartphones with Firefox OS coming soon

Firefox OS is an open network system with support for HTML5, in line with the founding transferring weight of storage and data service outside the closed system of the smartphone. Affordable smartphones Alcatel One Touch Fire and ZTE Open debut as the first running Mozilla.

Running at full speed, Android and apps written for it, as well as Windows, or iOS need to connect with the network to fully function. Smartphones with Firefox OS are another much stronger symptom of taking us full power over our own device. On the other hand - as our mind would try to convince us – they could be a way of putting us into hands attractive, but much cheaper smartphones that would compete with the sharks already present on the market.

Alcatel One Touch Fire photo: Alcatel

The launch of Firefox OS marks an incredibly exciting time for the Web. Firefox OS powers the first smartphones built entirely on Web technologies and will stimulate an inspiring new wave of innovation for the Web - said Jay Sullivan, Mozilla COO. We are proud to deliver an experience for first time smartphone users that will delight them and really put the power of the Web in people’s hands.

I rather explore the full potential of network on my 20-inch monitor, but well, actually, everything would be fine, and I might be called a sad underwriter, if not for the fact that the specifications of the first two smartphones to propagate the system are at least - I'm looking for the proper word - cost. Not very powerful processors, a relatively small displays, limited memory capacity suggest that Firefox OS had probably become extremely straight optimized to establish equal competition with the systems already present on the market. "The full potential of the Web"? Really?

I have some doubts as to whether the integration to Facebook and Twitter, Firefox, or cameras with not very impressive arrays would be enough to popularize smartphones with this system. Perhaps Alcatel and ZTE smartphones will try to squeeze some models from Nokia Asha series? A more likely scenario seems to me full magazines of operators who will get oneself up in Firefox and the mass of disgruntled customers who were persuaded by a consultant for the latest model of smartphone. I wish I was wrong. Definitely I'd rather be wrong.

ZTE Open photo: ZTE

We had two prototypes of smartphones in hand, in Barcelona. I have nothing against them, except that after the release of the new operating system, I would expect a much more ostentatious opening: at least one device with impressive specification. A strong accent, a blockbuster. Both new products are simple cheap smartphones, which are not sufficient for a demanding user and a novice will be embarrassed. It is hoped that there will be so many volunteers willing to try out the new OS that the idea of the system will not collapse immediately after the release.

I urge you to read the press release of Mozilla, but also to build your own independent opinion on the basis of tests and reviews, which probably will begin to appear like mushrooms after the release of smartphones. I do not mind a cheap smartphone with a modest specification, but I cannot keep fingers crossed for the new system, because I have the impression that the LP-head clamor of press offices shyly raises the spirit of the old Mozilla, the brilliant once from a web browser, whispering shyly : A little more modesty.