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 â€œexperimentalâ€ 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.

Diangson Louie

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

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22 Comments

BigmikeMeMe says:

13 years ago

“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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Bryan says:

13 years ago

IOS + Android = Firefox OS. hehehe
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jerosan says:

13 years ago

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

13 years ago

the whole top bar really looks like iOS.. the lock icon, signal bar, battery icon
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Vekou X Aitenshi says:

13 years ago

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

13 years ago

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

13 years ago

here is a video of Firefox OS
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simplynice93 says:

13 years ago

Wow! Hopefully it can be rooted to existing phones.
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simplynice93 says:

13 years ago

And tablets also! :)

quick brown fox says:

13 years ago

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

/hipster mode off
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co0ljade says:

13 years ago

lahat ba ng apps sa google play o sa Android app store pwede sa phone na ito?
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jarod_0122 says:

13 years ago

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

13 years ago

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.