Firefox OS lands in Germany - with France, Asia, and more to come
Mozilla's Firefox OS continues its slow march across the globe, with carriers set to begin shipping devices running the open source, browser-based smartphone platform in additional developed markets this week.
Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica has previously sold Firefox OS phones in Spain, but the bulk of its efforts have been focused on its subsidiaries in Spanish-speaking emerging markets, including Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Beginning on Thursday, however, Telefónica began taking preorders for the Alcatel Onetouch Fire E in Germany under its O2 brand. The Onetouch Fire E is the second Firefox OS phone from Alcatel and the first to deliver what Mozilla has termed "mid-tier hardware" for the platform. It features a 1.2GHz dual-core processor – likely a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8210 SoC, judging by Mozilla's reference hardware – plus a 4.5-inch display running at 960-by-540 resolution, 512MB RAM, and 4GB of storage.
