ReadWrite - It started with a gecko, of sorts. It then became a
fennec, a type of winter fox. Now, it is a smartphone, and soon it will
be available all over the world.
We are, of course, talking about Firefox OS, the open source, Web-based smartphone operating system created by Mozilla. The company announced Sunday at Mobile World Congress
in Barcelona, Spain, that it has partnered with device manufacturers
and mobile operators across the world to launch Firefox smartphones in
2013.
Mozilla also officially launched the Firefox Marketplace,
an app store featuring mobile Web applications and websites that will
be able to operate on the new smartphones. Both the Firefox OS and
Marketplace are optimized towards HTML5 development and open Web
standards using Mozilla’s Firefox browser as its backbone.
