25-dollar smartphones c Firefox OS will appear later this year

However, so far only in India and Indonesia. Told the head of Mozilla Corp., adding a few details about the devices that are soon to go on sale.

Previously, the company has already announced plans to release a 25-dollar smartphones in developing (and other countries). But the reality was somewhat different, and the cost of the equipment / assembly raised the price bar to $ 60. And this - too expensive for emerging markets, where and plan to sell smart phones with Firefox OS.

60-dollar smartphones went on sale, but the company has not given up on the idea and release a 25-dollar gadgets. To reduce the cost of the devices, it was decided to contract with a Chinese company Spreadtrum Communications Inc.

This company produces a very cheap chipsets, which will serve as the basis for budget smartphones Mozilla. From these smartphones is difficult to expect the ability to run productivity applications, but the basic functions of the device will perform.

Manual Mozilla hopes that the release of the $ 25 smartphone will bring the total number of devices based on the Firefox OS to 10 million in the next 12 months. Now the number of such devices - about a million, that too much.

Firefox Manual states that considering the option and the release of its smartphones in China, but there are known - a huge number of budget devices on Android, which constitute serious competition Firefox-based smartphones. So while China - the long term goal.

Here is a possible configuration for future public sector (for more information about these devaysakh already published Habré ):



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