Focus Taiwan - Taipei, May 27 (CNA) Mozilla Corp., developer of the Firefox web browser, said Monday that it has teamed up with Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., and they will unveil a product running the Firefox operating system (OS) on June 3.
Back in December, Mozilla called it a day with its failed Firefox OS for mobile business, and said it would pivot the technology into a new Internet of Things strategy. Amid a good dose of skepticism that a platform (and organization) that failed in one area can succeed in another that is arguably even more complex, Mozilla has laid out the first projects in its IoT shortlist. Get ready for a intelligent βpersonal user agentβ, a smart home initiative, a crowdsourced network based on sensors and a voice interface for IoT devices.
TechFrag - Mozilla announced plans to bring smart TVs with their Firefox OS in partnership with Panasonic, over an year ago. Finally, the Firefox OS powered smart TVs are now available in Europe. The company plans to release these TVs in other regions in the near future.
Smartphones running the open-source Firefox OS have begun shipping in Africa. The Orange Klif, a 3G phone that runs on Orangeβs mobile network, is now available in Senegal and Madagascar. Mozilla announced that it would be making Africa a major focus back at Mobile World Congress; the company started shipping phones in South Africa earlier this spring and plans to continue its international push in the months ahead.
This is good news.
And they need to make affordable devices like Nexus 4, because people will be to hesitant to purchase a Premium Device at a big Premium for a New OS.