One of the most used browser by Mozilla, Firefox will now be launching the Firefox OS based smartphones in the country as reported recently by Mozilla’s Taiwan CEO Gong Li to Digitimes. The retail prices of the units will be about $50.
“Mozilla
initially launched Firefox smartphones in the Latin America and Europe markets
in July 2013 and has sold about one million units,” Gong said. “Mozilla has
been able to cooperate with only 1-2 mobile telecom carriers in each country in
the two regional markets, but will instead cooperate with more than 10 retail
chains in India, Gong indicated. Therefore, Mozilla expects better sales
performance in the India market,” he added.
With
10 hardware makers and more than 20 mobile telecom carriers supporting its
Firefox OS platform, Mozilla aims to sell 10 million Firefox smartphones over
the next year.
They
are not just stopping at smartphones. Taiwan based Foxconn Electronics and VIA
Technologies have participated developing Firefox tablets and with Panasonic
are in the process of developing Firefox Smart TV’s.
This
season has seen a whole lot of budget smartphones being launched in India. With
key players like Motorola, Nokia and Asus introducing powerful smartphones and
debutants in the country like Xiaomi it’s raining smartphones. Also Finnish SmartphoneCompany Jolla has is also entering in India next month with an exclusive deal
with Snapdeal.
0 comments:
Post a Comment