First Firefox OS Phones Starts Shipping Worldwide; Sold Out In Minutes


Bangalore: Mozilla made a major foray into the Smartphone segment with the launch of first devices to run Mozilla's HTML 5-based Firefox OS, "Keon" and the "Peak" in January. The devices, which were only open for developers are now started shipping worldwide, and selling like hot cakes, the devices sold out within hours of being in market. Mozilla did not yet confirm whether the stock will be replenished or not.

Keon and Peak are produced by the obscure Spanish outfit Geeksphone, which is so far the only manufacturer that is pushing Firefox OS. Another manufacturer is ZTE, which is to start shipping the Firefox OS phones from around the middle of the year.  

Firefox OS is the non-profit group’s project named as ‘Boot to Gecko’ is to go after Google's Android and Apple's iOS, to offer Smartphones that are less expensive than an iPhone while offering similar experiences to those running on other platforms.

Since Firefox OS is based on HTML5, the native apps are expected to run on other Smartphone platforms too.

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