Streaming has become the most popular way to consume content. Smart TVs and streaming devices play an important role in the rising popularity of OTT platforms. A recent report on TV and video streaming devices across 27 major countries by Strategy Analytics reveals that Samsung not only leads in streaming device market share in these regions but its operating system Tizen, a gateway to streaming services also top the chart.

Though this report was published on September 2, it is worth noting that it is for Q1 2020.

Streaming Devices

According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung was the leading streaming device brand in the first quarter of 2020 in 27 major countries with 14% of devices in use. Whereas, second and third positions were held by Sony and LG with 12% and 8% market share respectively.

Further, Hisense, TCL, and Amazon tied at fourth position with 5% market share each, followed by Nintendo and Microsoft at fifth position with 4%.

Interestingly, in sixth place with 3%, there were a total of seven brands such as Skyworth, Google, Vizio, Sharp, Roku, Philips, and Xiaomi. Also, with 2% in seventh place, there were four brands like Apple, Changhong, Panasonic, and Konka.

Whereas, the ninth position was captured by Haier, Toshiba, and Insignia with a 1% share. The remaining 9% was held by others category, which includes brands with negligible market share.

EDITOR’S PICK: Samsung to raise smartphone shipments to 300 million units in 2021, as Huawei shipments decline

Streaming Platforms

Talking about streaming platforms, once again, Samsung lead in these 27 markets with 11% share with its Tizen OS. But the second position was held by platforms of both LG and Sony namely WebOS and Sony Playstation with 7% share each.

Roku TV OS and Fire OS tied at third position with 5% market share, followed by Android TV and Microsoft Xbox in the fourth place with 4% share.

Google Chromecast came at fifth position with 3% share while Apple tvOS and Firefox OS clashed with each other in the sixth place with 2% market share. The remaining 49% was occupied by platforms in the others category.

Takeaways

One thing is obvious from this report that the leading streaming device manufacturers also top the chart in streaming platforms if they have any. Also, a plethora of TV manufacturers gained some share in the devices category. Most of them use Android TV but still, Google’s streaming platform only accounted for 4%.

Anyway, this report only includes data from 27 major countries. Even though, the number of active devices in these regions is an astonishing figure at 1.14 billion.

UP NEXT: Samsung to maintain Global Smartphone Market lead in 2020: Report

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Recently, Twitter user, John Bernard, called Xiaomi the “fifth largest smartphone vender in Q2 2014” and that “three of the top nine” manufacturers “are now Firefox OS partners.”

Related: Mozilla is ready to release $25 USD Firefox OS smartphone

But who is John Bernard? It turns out that he is the Global Director of marketing at Mozilla and is in charge of promoting devices that use the Firefox OS around the world. Even though he did not directly say that Xiaomi will also use the Firefox OX, why did he bring them up? Could it be that Xiaomi and Firefox have already formed a partnership?

Right now, Xiaomi’s star products are the Mi phone and Red Mi. If they managed to attract WP and Firefox OS, then they could expand their product line.

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Few months back Indian manufacturers had showed interest in manufacturing Firefox OS phones at minimal cost. This phone targets affordable priced market and Spice telecom is up with it and has unveiled first phone with Firefox OS in India.
Spice Fire One Mi – FX 1, which is the first Firefox OS smartphone in India. The device runs on the Firefox OS developed by Mozilla and based on HTML 5. It is equipped with 3.5 inch display with 480*360 resolution. It is powered by a  1 GHz Spectrum  processor. The handset has dual SIM support and does not support 3G.It comes with a 2 MP rear camera. There is also a front facing 1.3 MP camera. The handset is priced at just Rs. 2299(38$).

Speaking to media, Prashant Bindal, Chief Executive Officer, Spice Mobility Ltd, said, “This is a step towards enabling the dreams of the small town masses of connecting with their aspirations through affordable smartphones. With the ultra-low cost Spice Fire One, we at Spice, aim to convert the feature phone users into smartphone users, thereby, aiding them with the power of internet. Our intentions are clearly to synthesize technology and style in our products and make them available at affordable prices. This partnership with Mozilla showcases our commitment to providing the best technological innovations first hand to our customers. This joint undertaking with Mozilla is a breakthrough in product offering and a brand new concept for smartphones.”

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The phone market is governed by Android and iOS, while WP and Blackberry are struggling, the lower market oriented Firefox OS seems to find a new road. Although there are lot phones using Firefox OS on the market, People still shows lot interest on it.  We now find that the ZTE Open C has launched on eBay and selling $99.

It’s ZTE Open C Specifications :
System: newest Firefox OS
Processor: MSM 8210 1.2GHz duo core A7
Network: supporting 850/900/1800/1900 GMS、850/1900 WCDMA.
RAM: 512MB
ROM: 4GB
Screen 4.0 inch TFT multi touch
Camera: 3MP FF Back camera
Battery: 1400MAh
Dimension: 126 x 64.7 x 10.8 mm
Others: Bluetooth, gravity sensor, GPS + A-GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

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Firefox OS is becoming more popular this year, and now we have a various Firefox OS device at Mobile World Congress that helds a week ago we found several Firefox OS smartphones and tablet devices.

After Alcatel is showing the Alcatel OneTouch Fire 7, is now we have Firefox OS devices from VIA, through VIA Vixen, yess this tablet devices is developed by chip maker, Via Technologies. And Foxconn is also developped Firefox OS tablet through Foxconn InFocus.

VIA Vixen is packs with 7 inch screen size with ith 1024 x 600 pixel resolution, and powered by VIA chipset with 1.2 GHz dual-core processor based on ARM Cortex A9 with Mali 400 GPU and sporets with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage.

While the Foxconn InFocus is comes with 10.1 inch screen size, with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution and powered by AllWinner A31 quad-core procesor  and sports with PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage.

Interestingly, the Foxconn InFocus is coupled with 5 megapixel main camera and 2 megapixel front facing camera and has 7000 mAh battery capacity, while the VIA Vixen is ships with 8 megapixel main camera and front facing VGA camera.

We assumes both tablets witll be offers with very affordable price and will be available in Chinese market in the near future.

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Before MWC 2014 launch, we’ve ever covered the news about ZTE Open C smartphone and ZTE Open II as the Firefox OS device from ZTE is now ZTE is showing those smartphone on MWC 2014 in barcelona.

ZTE and Mozill has been cooperative to be a partner to built Firefox OS smartphone, the ZTE Open C and ZTE Open II. Both phone is running with powerfull openweb platform Firefox OS.

The ZTE Open C is packs with 4 inch screen size WVGA display (800 x 480 pixel), powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8210 dual-core 1.2 Ghz processor, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage, the phone has 3megapixel camera and 3G connectivity. Powered by 1,400 mAh battery capacity. This phone will e available Q2 2014.

While the other phone is ZTE Open II, this phone has lower specs, packs with 3,5 inch screen size HVGA (480 x 320), powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8210 dual-core 1,2GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, 2GB of internal memory, sports with 2 megapixel camera, 3G connectivity and 1,150mAh battery capacity.

ZTE is also has a planning to release the 4,5 inch screen size smartphone in the near future and now ZTE has successfully to ships more than 1 million Firefox OS-based divice to the market.

ZTE Open C specifications:

OS: Firefox OS
Network: GPRS/WCDMA/HSPA+
Camera: 3 MP
Screen: 4-inch WVGA (800 × 480 pixels), multitouch
CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 dual-core 1.2 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM + 4 GB ROM
Battery: 1400 mAh
Size: 126 × 64.7 × 10.8 mm

ZTE Open II specifications:

OS: Firefox OS
Network: GPRS/WCDMA/HSPA+
Camera: 2 MP
Screen: 3.5-inch HVGA (480 × 320 pixels), multitouch
CPU: MSM8210 dual core 1.2 GHz
Memory: 256 MB RAM + 2 GB ROM
Battery: 1150 mAh
Size: 118 × 61 × 10.5mm

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Geeksphone Revolution is now officiall release on the market, the first dual OS smartphone that packs with Firefox OS and Android OS is now available on sale for 222 EURO or round $305 USD.

The Geeksphone Revolution is packs with 4.7-inch IPS display and powered by dual-core 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, sports with 4GB of expandable internal memory and 1GB of RAM, and coupled with a 8MP primary camera alongside a 1.3MP front-facer. The phone has 2,000 mAh battery capacity.

This phone can running on dual OS with only simple one touch to switch between Android OS or Firefox OS. The Geeksphone will be available on Mobile World Congress 2014 at Barcelona.

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Geeksphone is tak our attention since this phone is packs with dual operating system in one device. The phone will be running Android OS along with Firefox OS.

And now we have a rumors that this phone is ready to unveiled on February 20th, and this phone will be announced 4 day before the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 launch in Barcelona.

The phone will be powered by Intel Atom Z2560 dual-core 1,6GHz and offers with 289 EURO. The interesting point is the phone will running on two OS, and the user can swicth between those OSes through a fews tap on the screen without rebooting the phone.

Geeksphone Revolution is packs with 4,7 inch screen size with 960 x 540 pixel, 1GB of RAM and coupled with 8 megapixel rear facing camera and 2 megapixel front facing camera. The phone is also sports with 4GB of internal storage and micro SD cards slot, along with Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi, and 2000 mAh battery capacity.

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Firefox OS platform will be the arrival of new players this year. The newcomer of mobile paltform is ready to introduce the Huawei Firefox OS, thats called as Ascend II Y300. This smartphone is already exhibited by Huawei at CES 2014 .

The smartphone will entering the new Firefox OS devices. Previously, there are also other Chinese manufacturers that already introduced the Firefox OS smartphones, that is ZTE.

As with any ZTE Firefox OS smartphone, the new Huawei phone will be targeted to low-end segment. Huawei Ascend II Y300 is also equipped with 4-inch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

The phone is powered by Snapdragon MSM8225 dual-core processor ARM Cortex A5 1GHz, 512MB of RAM coupled with 4GB of internal memory. There is also a microSD slot for additional storage capacity. The phone is also has 5 megapixel camera and 0.3 megapixel front facing camera.

There are 1730 mAh capacity battery. This mobile phone was demonstrated by using OS Firefox 1.1 and can be used on GSM, EDGE and UMTS network.

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There is a news about the Firefox OS, and two Chinese smartpone maker Alcatel (own by TCL) and ZTE has been entering the Firefox OS through Alcatel OneTouch Fire and ZTE Open.

Both Firefox OS smartphone is already hit the Europe market and now they turn to hit Latin America through the Movistar provider. So the user from Colombia and Venezuela can buy the Alcatel OneTouch Fire and ZTE Open from the carrier today.

This make jelousy for some user in America and Asia region, since the Firefox OS will be available a month ahead, but the Latin American can bought those device just for $277 and $184 on contract, while Colombians can buy either device for $106 prepaid or $53 on a one-year agreement.

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Market research firm IDC has pointed out that during the period 2013-2017, the Indian smart phone market growth is expected to be among the first in the world, is expected to grow 459.7 percent to 155.6 million (2017 annual shipments).

According to another research firm Strategy Analytics show that India overtook Japan in the first quarter of this year, for the first time ranked the world’s third largest smart phone market, shipments of seasonal annual growth rate of 163%, 89% of smartphone adoption Android system. Well, Android really can eat low-end smart phone market firmly do?

According to technology blog theverge.com reported, Mozilla Corporation co-founder and chief technology officer Brandon – Archer (Brendan Eich) pointed out, Firefox (Firefox) operating system aimed at the feature phone market, Firefox OS mobile devices only need to push Gecko Web browser layout engine can be, but Android mobile devices will need to meet the Android Kernel, Dalvik and WebKit requirements.

Archer pointed out, Android 4.0 version of the operating system can not run on the phone 256MB RAM, but for low-end phones, Google is often recommended to use Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) version of the system. He predicted that in the next two years, Gingerbread Android platform will be the mainstream.

Mozilla, Telefonica and ZTE announced the 1st of this month, the world’s first mobile phone based on Firefox OS “ZTE Open” will be held July 2 on sale in Spain, Movistar, price (including VAT) to € 69, including € 30 prepaid fees, monthly users will enjoy zero interest installment purchase discount.

First Firefox Mobile already on sale in Spain, it is singing “open”, but in fact it, if successful, probably because of the price, not the software itself. The question is: Firefox can really build an ecosystem and iOS, Andorid, WP, Blackberry BB10 competition do? No, nor necessary, Firefox, most users do not care.

Why? Since we have entered the third stage of smartphone purchase. The first phase is an early stage, about 15% of users buy smart phones; followed by the second stage, cautious consumers to buy, once again increased 40-45% of the users; now entering the third phase, began the influx of cheap customers, at least in the European case.

So why choose the Spanish Offer ZTE Open phone? First, because the Spanish economic downturn, buy cheap mobile phone users may grow; Second, in European countries, the Spanish mobile phone penetration is already quite high, up to 66%, UK 64%, Europe 57%.

Mozilla vice president of products, COO Jay – Sullivan (jay sullivan) also said in a statement: “For the purposes WEB, Firefox OS launch is exciting. Firefox OS for smart phones rely entirely on WEB technology to build, will stimulate innovation Sina WEB tide appears. smartphone for the first consumer purchase brings outstanding experience, to please them, to the WEB efforts on their hands, we are honored. ”

Visible, Firefox’s real goal is to “first purchase smart phone users,” these people are currently still using feature phones. And a lot of these users, ZTE Open might sell a few million units.

Archer clarified that, Firefox OS not to with today’s high-end smartphone competition. He said: “We are not targeting the high-end, will not break Apple fortress, Google fortress.” Instead, Firefox’s goal is to feature phone market, targeting those who still use feature phones users.

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Foxconn is ready to launch smartphone proceeds collaboration with Mozilla. Of course it is not a smartphone Android devices, but smartphone with Firefox OS-based device. The device is also ready to be introduced to the public on June 3, this year.

Unfortunately there is no detailed information about the Firefox OS is owned by Foxconn. In any of the brand such devices on the market.

But this is of course a positive signal for Firefox OS belongs to Mozilla. This cooperation was going to make Foxconn as a company that also produce Firefox OS smartphone.

The first smartphones using the Firefox OS has been introduced in February. Furthermore, manufacturers of the world renowned such as ZTE, Alcatel, Huawei to LG was going to introduce smartphone with Firefox OS. Especially for ZTE and Alcatel, ZTE has launched the ZTE Open and Alcatel with One Touch Fire as Firefox OS-based device.

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As you know, yesterday Geeksphone has opened its debut for Firefox OS phones. Two Firefox OS phones provided to be ordered from all over the world, and it is only within a few hours of stock of Keon and Peak phone has been sold out.

According to the Geeksphone CEO, Javier Aguera, the second phases of Firefox OS phone is currently being prepared. Online order system in Geeksphone promised will soon be online within the next few hours.

The first batch of Geeksphone providing 1000 unit of Keon and Peak smartphone device, both devices prepared for Mozilla employees and partners. While Geeksphone is said to have produced a total of 10,000 units of mobile Firefox OS.

Keon and Peak are affordable smartphones aimed at emerging markets such as Venezuela, Brazil, and several European countries. Firefox OS is likely to be available more widely in the future, and if you look at the current buyer interest, it seems the Geeksphone will produce more quantity.

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This year, GeeksPhone is preparing two kind of Firefox OS phone which called Keon and Peak,while the developers can get this phone few months ago, is now those phone is available for customers.

According to foreign media, the first two model of Firefox OS phone is available for the public, GeeksPhone is offers Keon with $120USD while the Peak is offered with $190 USD price tags.

As we ever mentioned before, Keon is packs with 3,5 inch HVGA screen display, powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 with 1GHz clock-speed, sports with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, there is 3 mgeapixel camera on the back and powered by 1580 mAh battery capacity.

While the Peak has a better specs than Keon, this phone is packed with 4,3 inch qHD screen and powered by dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor with 1,2GHz clock speed, there is also 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, Peak has 8 megapixel main camera and powered by 1800 mAh battery capacity.

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After a long time in the news, Firefox OS Phone likely will soon go on sale in June. Some manufacturers are ready to adopt the operating system, the Chinese manufacturer are ready to release Firefox OS smartphone is ZTE.

CEO Mozilla, Gary Kovacs has been interview with foreign media, that Firefox OS smartphone is ready to release on June.

Fir the first batch, Kovacs said that Firefox OS smartphone will only be brought in on a few specific areas. The countries that will be visited by the first Firefox OS smartphone are Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Venezuela.

The launch of mobile phones in these areas, said Kovacs, a sort of beta test. And, if the system that belongs to Firefox OS is more complex, they will plan the launch of mobile phones in the larger region, for example, the United Statesa and Asia

In addition to mobile Firefox OS, Android phones will also be rivaled by few other platforms. Other operating systems are ready to compete are Ubuntu Mobile OS and Tizen OS smartphone.

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Mozilla is currently developing a new JavaScript API, and first appeared in the the Firefox OS operating system, which allows users to purchase digital products and services available on the network in very convenient method. It is reported that there are two ways to pay, either using a credit card to pay a bill or the using the spend ammpount of money by each month.

Firefox OS engineers Kumar McMillan said in a blog post The Mozilla’s API navigator.mozPay (), based on the Google Wallet API, but for a number of payment providers improvements, especially for the monthly payment mode adds a lot of features.

When a mobile application calls this API, a very simple window pops up on the screen, the user can secure password authentication in the above, thus completing the entire payment process.

Mozilla is sparing no effort to pay operators to promote this mechanism, the present situation in good condition. With this API, Mozilla can bring more benefits to the user, can also be more firm control of the user. For example, it may be in the near future, we will in Mozilla own application store this API to purchase applications.

Mozilla wants to carry out another business, but no ad network content. McMillan noted, content charges will be another profit model for mobile applications. Past history, this charging system on the entire Internet is not ideal, Mozilla wants a better service platform launched by their own. If you can improve the speed and security of small transactions, it is bound to increase the possibility of the user to pay for content. Although users in the past to pay for content, the enthusiasm is not high, but now is the era of mobile Internet, the situation is likely to change, to know that mobile devices can bring advertising revenue to content providers far computer multi- . McMillan said, “The Internet should support all the business model, paid services should become one of the most important features of Internet.”

As online payment paid in the future will evolve into what form, Mozilla engineers, the Mozilla plans and other Internet organizations to cooperate in the framework of the W3C to establish a standard network API. Which, the the W3C online payment group the main Xi Mannu – Si Boni (Manu Sporny) make a great contribution, In addition, he was a non-centralized network payment platform PaySwarm, drafters. Si Boni pointed out in an article on the Slashdot website, Mozilla’s API for payment provider is very important, but this requires the involvement of users, ie users need to pay the provider manually added to the whitelist to normal be used. Mozilla admit it is not perfect, but this attitude is also seen to hope for improvement.

McMillan stressed, Mozilla this new API is in the experimental stage, possible future for large adjustments, will be officially launched in the first Firefox OS devices. He also said, Mozilla want to be able to concept of PaySwarm into in, and this may need to multi-party cooperation in order to establish a new payment standard. In the meantime, Mozilla is bound to be on the desktop version and the Android version of the Firefox browser fully committed to the promotion of own network payment API.

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Mozilla has finally announced the minimum requirement for mobile phones that will use a proprietary mobile operating system, Firefox OS.

And, from a list of the specifications mentioned by Mozilla, appears low end mobile phone of Firefox is not too different from other platforms.

To run Firefox OS operating system, Mozilla set some standards, such as minimum processor speed of 800 MHz, 256MB RAM and QVGA screen with 320 x 240 pixels resolution. Compared with other platforms, the minimum requirement is similar to Firefox OS minimum standards for Windows Phone device.

Some Firefox-based mobile OS that has emerged into the public also seems to use the minimum specifications set by Mozilla. The mobile-phone include ZTE and Alcatel One Touch Open Fire. In addition, Sony Mobile is also testing the Firefox OS on Sony Xperia E which also has a specification is not much different.

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A new player in the smartphone arena is expected to come soon. The new player is a smart phone that uses the Firefox operating system. And, according to the latest rumors, the phone is ready to be launched at the Mobile World Congress 2013 held in Barcelona.

So, who’s going to launch the Firefox OS smart phone? ZTE is most likely the first to launch Firefox-based mobile OS. Moreover, the company, which originated in China is also said to unveiled their Firefox OS smartphone.

However, do not be too eager to get this smartphone. This OS is targetig for low-end smartphone on the market. In addition, the new Mozilla Firefox just gave two mobile OS to developers who offer basic specification, when compared to the high end of the Android mobile phone.

In addition, Firefox OS is also a web-based operating system. With these technologies, the operating system does not require sophisticated specifications to work properly.

So, we have to wait the appearance about those smartphone until Mobile World Congress events next month.

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Mozilla has finally officially bring the first smartphone to use the Firefox OS. Mobile is intended for developers with very basic features.

As a first step, Mozilla working with Telefonica Mobile and Geeksphone thats phone is called Keon. In addition, according Geeksphone, the Mozilla also released another model named Peak.

Keon Mobile also has a specification that is not too special, powered by 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor, 3.5-inch screen with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, sports with 3 megapixel camera, 1580 mAh battery capacity, GSM and HSPA network support, microSD slot, microUSB, light and proximity sensor, GPS and G-sensor.

Meanwhile Peak models comes with a screen measuring 4.3 inch with 960 x 540 pixels, a dual core processor 1.2GHz Qualcomm S4 Snadpragon, 8 megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM and 1800 mAh battery capacity.

However, the Firefox operating system does not require high hardware to work optimally. That one OS is built based on HTML5 and other web programming languages​​. So, it is a web application designed app to run as native applications.

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As for a while now, teh CES 2013 event is dominance by Android and Windows Phone 8 devices, but there is another presence from Mozilla, yes that’s a Firefox OS for mobile phone.
We’ve ever covered this news recently, and now we have some pictures of the mysterious phone running those Firefox operating system.

For a while now, there is no information about the manufacturer which already using this device so far, but as we mentioned before, there is news that says about the development will likely first built by ZTE. And even Firefox OS based handset that looks similar as demonstrated by ZTE V788D ever released in China recently.

On Ces 2013 we saw the first handsets based on Firefox OS, is reportedly been powered of ARMv6 processor and sports with 256MB of RAM. In addition, this smartphone also has a 3.5-inch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and a 5 megapixel main camera. It’s look like a ZTE smartphone, but we not sure about that since the phone has no logo or name on the body. So What do you think?

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Supporting for Firefox OS becoming more prospective to challenge Android and iOS operating systems. ZTE as the one of handset manufacturer based in China is now fully supports to Mozilla Firefox OS development.

Together with ZTE, Mozilla is now developed mobile operating system is ready for use in handsets ZTE device at the end of 2012. The sound is good right?

When the time comes later, ZTE will further broaden the choice of handsets for consumers. Currently, ZTE offers a device that mostly use Android operating system. There were also among them based on Microsoft Windows Phone operating system.

ZTE spokesman David Dai Shu, as reported by Reuters says, this is ZTE’s efforts to strengthen their line of operating systems while still releasing Android.

“This is part of a broader plan to create a better balance of products using a variety of operating systems. We’re not just going to rely on the Android or Windows,” he said.

Other companies that have expressed support for the Mozilla Firefox OS as claimed include operator Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, Smart, Telecom Italia, Telenor and Etisalat

In addition to ZTE, the handset vendors are ready to release Firefox OS is TCL. Firefox-based smartphone is expected to be using the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

Firefox OS is being aimed at emerging markets and was born out of the desire to create an alternative mobile platform. The attraction of Firefox OS is that applications only need to be developed in HTML5, making it easier for developers to create and port the apps to support its mobile ecosystem.

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