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Mozilla Firefox OS for smartphones revealed

Let’s do a quick headcount of the current major players, we have Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone – the big three. Let’s throw in RIM’s Blackberry OS to the mix. Add those up and what you get is a very brutal and unforgiving mobile market.

Mozilla seems to have a lot of confidence though when they decided to develop their own “experimental” mobile platform called the Firefox OS, AKA Boot to Gecko (B2G). Screenshots have been revealed giving us a glimpse on what we can expect from this upcoming OS.

Take a look below:

The whole OS is based on Linux and Gecko, and runs apps in HTML 5. The Foundation claims that it is faster, lighter and more open than Android. Personally it looks like a mix of Android and Meego. What do you guys think? Share your thoughts below.

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This article was written by Louie Diangson, Managing Editor of YugaTech. You can follow him at @John_Louie.

22 Responses

  1. Avatar for Robert DC. Reyes Robert DC. Reyes says:

    More screenshots of B2G (Firefox Mobile OS) on a Smart Prepaid SIM card here:
    http://www.bobreyes.com/myblog/2012/07/23/firefox-mobile-os-b2g-milestone-4-released/

  2. Avatar for Dherish Dherish says:

    This must be great if the price is right :)

  3. Avatar for Yahoo Yahoo says:

    This could be a competition to feature phones given its price point advantage. But to compete with Android and iOS? I don’t think so. Its got the looks of both iOS and Android but I just can’t sense the smartphone feel in here.

  4. Avatar for Justin Justin says:

    Firefox OS? No, thanks. Talk about late entrant.

  5. Avatar for jlapitan jlapitan says:

    meron na po nyan dito sa pinas..

    http://www.bobreyes.com/myblog/2012/06/12/the-philippines-very-first-boot-to-gecko-b2g-device/

    http://www.mozillaphilippines.org/the-philippines-very-first-boot-to-gecko-b2g-device/

  6. Avatar for roiji roiji says:

    looks promising.
    especially currently running on Android hardware :}

  7. Avatar for gouki gouki says:

    the logo of evernote and angry birds are switched

  8. Avatar for tinikling tinikling says:

    the icons looks like from china’s knock offs smartphones or maybe there’s something wrong with my monitor..

  9. Avatar for nameless nameless says:

    If you think this is already great, just wait for “UBUNTU Phone”

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/04/ubuntu-phone-os-takes-a-step-closer

  10. Avatar for co0ljade co0ljade says:

    lahat ba ng apps sa google play o sa Android app store pwede sa phone na ito?

    • Avatar for jarod_0122 jarod_0122 says:

      75% of the apps on the Market can be ported “daw” which is really really good.

    • Avatar for Yahoo Yahoo says:

      Apps that are built using HTML 5 for iOS and Android are mostly based from their mobile webpage counterparts like Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Mail, blog apps (Engadget, Verge, etc.) so don’t expect your favorite apps, especially games to be ported to this OS immediately.

  11. Avatar for quick brown fox quick brown fox says:

    I’m fairly sure that’s not OK Computer’s album cover…

    /hipster mode off

  12. Avatar for simplynice93 simplynice93 says:

    Wow! Hopefully it can be rooted to existing phones.

  13. Avatar for Darwin Darwin says:

    here is a video of Firefox OS

  14. Avatar for Darwin Darwin says:

    Smart will back this phone and Mozilla is targeting a below $100 phone.. it’s gonna be really cheap.

  15. Avatar for Vekou X Aitenshi Vekou X Aitenshi says:

    So if we use firefox os, chances are that the icons for angry birds and evernote get swapped?

  16. Avatar for jeric jeric says:

    the whole top bar really looks like iOS.. the lock icon, signal bar, battery icon

  17. Avatar for jerosan jerosan says:

    more of a linux-phone…rooting for more open source…surely this will have a lot of flavors once it is officially out…

  18. Avatar for Bryan Bryan says:

    IOS + Android = Firefox OS. hehehe

  19. Avatar for BigmikeMeMe BigmikeMeMe says:

    “I see the light at the end of the tunnel!!”

    I also see some bit of iOS playing there.
    I hope there will be a demo video of playing with this OS. :))

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