Mozilla, known for the Firefox browser, entered the Indian smartphone market with its ‘super’ low cost smartphone, Cloud FX, priced at a mere $33 ( INR 1999). The company partnered with Indian company Intex, for the manufacture of these handsets which are being sold online at India’s largest e-marketplace, Snapdeal.

The phone runs on Mozilla’s Firefox operating system and users can download games and other content from its own application store, as told Jane Hsu, Mozilla’s Taipei-based Director of product marketing. This would also warm the market up towards the mobile version of their web browser, Firefox.

The Cloud FX has a 3.5-inch with a 320×480-pixel capacitive HVGA display. It is powered by a 1 GHz Spreadtrum processor and sports a 2-megapixel camera. It has a 1250 mAh battery which gives it 4 hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby time. It runs the web apps through HTML5 which consumes lesser memory. The phone comes preloaded with Facebook and Twitter. However, WhatsApp can be obtained through a third-party app source. Experts have considered this to be a case of ‘App-gap’ which translates as the lack of applications on cheaper smartphones as compared to those based on Android systems.

Success of the phone would be tug of war between the low price and low end features. However, Mozilla has aimed to target the first-time smartphone buyers who are intimidated by high costs and advanced features of other smartphones. The Cloud FX aims to be a low cost source of internet in everyone’s pocket, especially those who do not have access to computers.

Let us see if Mozilla partners with some Chinese mobile manufacturer to launch its phones in China. But till now there has been no news of Mozilla OS smartphones coming to China.

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Mozilla has revealed that it plans to update the Firefox OS. Firefox OS 1.0 operating system will be updated and sent to the counterparty on a quarterly basis and will issue security updates once every six weeks.

Alex Keybl from Mozilla said that this strategy is something aggressive for a mobile OS. Even so Keybl said that the plan still requires some adjustments. By comparison, Mozilla released the Firefox browser application once every 1.5 months for both the PC and Android versions.

Mozilla itself has not given a fixed date for the plan will begin. Currently Firefox OS is still in version 1.0 and has been installed in the ZTE Open which was released earlier this month. If we follow these two OS updates are likely to be present in the October.

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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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