Within in two days Mozilla has been able to develop associations with three new smartphone manufacturers including Sony, LG and Huawei in order to produce devices running the brand new Firefox OS. Although, Sony joined the band wagon after LG and Huawei, it finally managed to have a piece of the HTML 5-based OS. Now Mozilla has five smartphone makers on its board, including ZTE and Alcatel, but the way companies were jumping onto the platform it appeared for a while that soon other top companies might also join. However, according to the latest report from Cnet, Samsung is not going to be a part of this plan. The news story claims the South Korean manufacturer is simply not interested in producing a handset that runs the new Firefox OS because Mozilla’s operating system is for devices that are intended for developing countries that are now getting used to the smartphones.
This does not mean at all that the maker of Samsung Galaxy S III is not keeping track of such a market. In fact Samsung seems to have such markets in its mind, but the company is looking to tap regions with its own Tizen OS. Given that on Monday, February 25th the Korean smartphone producer announced that it is going to fuse its homemade operating system, Bada into Tizen. Therefore, in spite of the fact that at this point in time Samsung is the only partner in the development of Tizen the company is still looking to form a new platform. According to Cnet Samsung is planning to launch its Tizen-based handsets in July or August.
The aforementioned report from Cnet makes it clear that Samsung did not pay much attention to Mozilla’s Firefox OS and the latest announcement stating that the home-grown OS will be integrated into Tizen indicates that Samsung is aggressively following its plan and we may soon be able to hear about the new breed of smartphones from the company.
In general whether it’s the budget smartphones of Nokia or Firefox and Tizen based handsets, one thing is pretty obvious that cell phone makers are strongly focusing on developing markets. The importance of developing countries can be judged from the fact that Apple is also expected to introduce a cheaper iPhone to boost its sales in populated regions like China and India.
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