In July, Mozilla company will release the Indian market a series of cheap smartphones platform Firefox OS. This was announced by chief operating officer and head of the Mozilla Taiwan Gong Li (Gong Li), which refers to the Taiwanese business publication DigiTimes.
Notes that thanks to cooperation with ODM-cost producers and processors Chinese company Spreadtrum Communications managed to reduce the cost of new smartphones to $ 25. This eventually allowed to establish a retail price of $ 50.
Firefox OS now supports 10 electronics manufacturers and more than 20 telecom operators. The South Korean company LG Electronics and Chinese vendors Alcatel OneTouch, Huawei Device and ZTE sell their Firefox-smartphones in 15 countries. We already know that Foxconn Electronics and VIA Technologies are involved in making tablet computers on the platform Firefox, and Panasonic is going to start producing TV running this operating system.
Gong Li noted that Mozilla plans to sell about 10 million smartphones in the next year.