In Japan, smuho with 'Firefox OS' from December au is growing steadily throughout the world

Au's new product launchThe release schedule within 2014 was announced in "Firefox OS"Smartphones with built-in smartphones are surely growing as we look to the world. Google "Android OneMozilla, which develops Firefox OS, reports on the current state of the "low-priced smartphone market" that is lower than the hottest attention of 100 dollars (about 11 thousand yen) such as advancing with "blog.

Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth | The Mozilla Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/10/09/firefox-os-shows-continued-global-growth/

Develop creative platform for developers based on Firefox OS | 2014 | KDDI CORPORATION
http://news.kddi.com/kddi/corporate/newsrelease/2014/10/03/679.html

Sales began in Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Venezuela in June 2013Firefox OSAs of October 2014, 12 types of smartphones are on sale from 13 carriers in 24 countries.

Smartphone with Firefox OS released in India in August 2014 "Cloud FXIt has already been posted on the article. The selling price is 1999 rupees (about 3,500 yen), realizing a phenomenal low price.

Firefox OS that can be purchased for only 3800 yen How about the comfort of a smartphone? - GIGAZINE


Firefox OS smartphones launched in India · Bangladesh in the second quarter of 2014 will be on sale in fast-growing Asia and January 2014 in Mexico, plans to further increase sales area in South America where growth is also remarkable It is expected that it will steadily grow all over the world including Europe that has already been released in several countries.

Although it is a smartphone with a Firefox OS, which is less expensive than 5,000 yen, the advantage is limited to price only. Mozilla said, "Firefox OS is an" open "mobile OS in a true sense that there is no universality and no restrictions on the Web as a platform." Former Mozilla's Andreas Gall representative said, "OS for all mobile terminals such as Android, Windows Phone and of course iOS, is like a" garden garden "managed by Apple, Google and Microsoft business management such as application development He pointed out that the ecosystem created by the company that provides the OS is not open, stating that Firefox OS should eliminate any restrictions and stating that "Open Firefox OS with no limit will benefit developers and users" It is.


Were you sympathizing with the philosophy of Firefox OS aiming for a more open OS?Au garden"Au who jumped out from," President Takashi Tanaka President made a shocking announcement "to make smartphones with Firefox OS appear in December 2014. Presentation by Tanaka can be confirmed from around 7 minutes of the "Open stage session 3" movie of the following site.

Open Stage Session 3 KDDI Firefox OS Project Team


Furthermore, KDDI reveals that it will distribute the development board "Open Web Board" for Firefox OS "Development Board" and development platform "Gluin" to developers for free, and the real seriousness of the approach to Firefox OS is seen.


It is still unknown how far Firefox OS can cut into two strong points of Android and iOS. However, the possibility of acquiring a large share if you show its presence in the huge emerging markets where Firefox OS smartphones that realize overwhelming low prices is said to have 1.5 billion potential customers are enough ants.

The smartphone with Firefox OS planned to be released from au at Christmas has a high performance that distinguishes it from the low-priced Firefox OS smartphone that was released so far, "I stuck to one screw" design It's a smart phone that combines, so I'd like to expect a lot of it.