Orange announced a $40 “Klif” Firefox OS phone for Africa, and
Mozilla says it’s working with Verizon Wireless and others on Firefox OS
feature phones.
There’s still no evidence that Mozilla’s HTML-focused Firefox OS has
made much of a dent in the world smartphone market, where it has been
focused on low-end devices sold primarily to emerging markets. Yet,
Firefox OS still leads the way among upstart, Linux-based mobile
operating systems, and will soon be available in more than 40 markets,
this year, on a total of 17 smartphones, according to its latest stats.
Meanwhile, the very first Tizen (
Samsung Z1) and Ubuntu (
BQ Aquaris E4.5) phones have only just shipped, and Jolla’s Sailfish OS based Jolla phones are still mostly limited to Europe.
Even if Firefox OS isn’t taking the world by storm, it’s been
enjoying enough success to encourage dozens of carriers and a smaller
number of vendors to continue to risk new launches. For example, Cherry
Mobile recently introduced..
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