Mozilla's Firefox Mobile Operating System

Mozilla's Firefox OS

The fiercely competitive smartphone market has witnessed the entry of yet another mobile OS. The Firefox OS from Mozilla does come with a few technology advantages, but it may take more than that to unseat the well-established Android and Apple phones from their positions of dominance in this market. Neverthless, the battle has begun....
Firefox OS is Mozilla's open source mobile operating system based on Linux and Mozilla's Gecko technology. Firefox OS is a mobile operating system that's free proprietary technology while still a powerful platform that provides application developers an opportunity to create excellent product, In addition, It's flexible and capable enough to make the end user happy.
This will truly challenge Apple's iOS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows 8 - currently the biggest players among mobile phones OSs. An alternative OS could bring in some fresh air into the market. For developers, Mozilla had launched its Firefox Simulator last year with versions 1.0 and 2.0, and has just launched version 3.0.
   Mozilla may be a late arrival at the mobile OS party, but its focus on open Web standards and devices, independence from any one single vendor, and clear interest in emerging markets is a smart way to debut.
    Firefox OS relies entirely on the Web to enable HTML5 applications with complete access to core device APIs In addition to core services like voice calling, text messaging, email, Web browsing and a camera, Firefox OS includes built-in social features like Facebook and Twitter integration.

Technical considerations of Firefox OS

Firefox OS is like Chrome OS, which runs a Web browser on top of Linux. Firefox OS is designed to allow HTML5/CSS applications to communicate directly with the device's hardware using JavaScript. However, HTML5 is having some performance issues on lo-cost mobiles. According to sources, Firefox OS could make cheaper smartphones possible. It is aimed at users who want to use a phone for only text messaging and to make calls, which means low-cost or low-end mobile devices. But the market is already full of cheap Android into the low-end smartphone market.

    

App discovery, by the way, is one of the cooler features of Firefox Os. Just swipe all the way to the left most screen and you get a search bar. Type in something like "photography" and the screen will show you apps you already have installed on your device and a list of related service. For photography, this list includes the like of Flickr, Picasa, Pinterest and Tumblr, for example. Type the "music" and you get links to SoundCloud, YouTube, Metro Lyrics, MTV, Last.fm and many others. Click on any of these, and you're taken right to these service's web apps. If you like them, just swipe up from the bottom of the screen to pin them to your home screen.

     Mozilla's Firefox OS seeks to challenge the dominance of Android and iOs, Google and Apple's operating systems.