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Rumours have been circulating about the imminent arrival of a Mozilla phone for some time. Now the Wall Street Journal and Reuters are reporting that ZTE is planning to launch a Mozilla-powered phone in the first quarter of 2013.
The Journal suggests that ZTE is working with Mozilla in order to diversify its product range and shift from its reliance on Android and WinPho. ZTE is, apparently, working with “a regional telecom carrier outside of China.”
The Mozilla phone OS is intended to run an HTML-based platform, but supply the same level of performance as existing mobile operating systems. Other than that, it’s anybody’s guess how the ZTE handset will turn out. [Wall Street Journal and Reuters]
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Haha. And there goes Mozilla’s great concept.. down the drain.
trouble is, all these concepts are great, but until a company builds something as good as its concept, we are just left with just another handset
There really isn’t any point using that concept video for this article. As far as I can remember it’s fan made and more of a wish list than a realistic expectation. Also it used a screen capture from a Pre-Gingerbread version of Android as it’s display.
It is realistic, because all the technologies mentioned exist. It’s only a matter of stuffing them in a phone, and making them work.
But is it realistic to have a phone with all those features being released by an open source company and a second string (though rapidly improving) OEM as the first phone for an OS that is unproven in the marketplace. I suspect that ZTE will do for Mozilla what they and other OEMs have done for Windows Phone, release it on a modified version of last years Android hardware.
FYI Everyone. All the technology shown in the video already exists in some form.
i would buy a phone that had all those feature, whoever made it
Shame no-one has the battery technology to power them all though…
There were news int the media a couple of months ago saying it would be launched in Brazil. We had a “hackaton” here 2 weeks ago with the Mozilla guys. Maybe that’s the “outside China” telecom?
this phone needs to happen.
having said that, this quantum leap would just make too much sense for phone companies. Why make a good, advanced product when we can keep churning out larger-screened mediocrity?
If the finished gadget had anything like the stuff in the video, I’d buy in it a second. Really needs a bottle-opener/corkscrew combo though.
Market readiness is a key aspect of a business justification. The technologies need to be made marketable. Something Apple’s really good at, which is why people had big expectations for the iPhone5. Well, here’s your chance, Apple.
can you imagine the size of battery it would need, don’t think they do a battery powerful enough to power those toys for a whole day that would fit in a phone that size
There are some really great ideas stacked into that. I know most/all of them have been seen before but not in the same product. On top of that it looks lovely.
If the battery issue can be overcome and the projected keypad stuff can be integrated into it and that bluetooth pointer can be made into a handsfree in ear mic then it would be pretty unbeatable and I think more useful than google’s glasses. (That is a lot of if’s of course!)