
"It's no secret that Mozilla has been working on a mobile OS. Previously codenamed Boot2Gecko, the project focused on a purely HTML5 based system that worked in many ways like current mobile devices. As the project grew into Mozilla OS, the company has laid out a partnership with ZTE that will have real world devices in certain markets early next year. Testing for this OS had previously consisted of a compiled ROM that would be flashed over a handful of Android devices. Now, Mozilla has moved into full fledged product evaluation mode
with their own custom developer phone." Looks decent - and a better solution for testers and developers than custom ROMs.
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2005-07-07
I'm sorry Mozilla, your dream of a web based OS where apps are HTML5 is too 2007.
Apple tried this before the technology was ready. HTML5 has progressed a ton in that time frame. You have to think about how different technology becomes in 5 years time.
Today, the browsers are better, the hardware is much better, the HTML5 spec is better, in short everything is better. Give it a couple more years when "4G" connections are more widely available and things will be even better.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Firefox OS. I personally think it has a much brighter future than Windows Phone.