Mozilla aims for the emerging world with plans for the $25 smartphone

[A Guy]

In Barcelona today, Mozilla announced its Firefox OS plans for the next year. The highlight: plans for a line of smartphones starting at $25 each, bringing HTML5-powered smartphones to billions of people who can't afford more expensive devices.

Central to this plan is a partnership with Chinese fabless semiconductor designer Spreadtrum. The company has designed a trio of chipsets built around the ARM Cortex A5 processor.

While a $25 smartphone might be a step down from the high-powered phones of Samsung and Apple, Mozilla is positioning its new products at an audience that currently only has feature phones. As such, it's not a step down, it's a step up.

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A Guy

 

[marsmimar]

Hmm ... $25 smartphone, and an undisclosed monthly cell phone plan from ... who? (Or whom.)

 

[SIW2]

Latin America might be a good market for them.

 

[Britton30]

Hmm ... $25 smartphone, and an undisclosed monthly cell phone plan from ... who? (Or whom.)

Prezactly, now they can have a semi=smart phone and even less food.