Firefox OS, shown here on the ZTE Open, has a gallery app, but if you want to share photos, you have to do so one at a time.
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It’s not every day that a new mobile operating system arrives, but Tuesday will be one of them as Telefonica begins selling the inexpensive ZTE Open with Mozilla’s Firefox OS in Spain.
The move marks the commercial beginning of an effort by phone makers and network operators to use Mozilla’s open-source, browser-based operating system to reclaim power in the mobile market lost to Apple and Google.
The phone itself costs 69 euros ($90), including 30 euros ($39) of pay-as-you-go credit — or for those who sign up for a two-year contract, for 2.38 euros ($3.10) per month. That’s a lot cheaper than most of the new Android and iOS smartphones on the market today that consumers have flocked to and that Firefox OS is competing with.
The ZTE Open won’t impress smartphone power users who want more than its 3.5-inch 480×320-pixel touchscreen, 3.2MP camera, 256MB RAM, and 512MB flash memory that’s boosted with an included 4GB microSD card. But it’s not designed to win them over; it’s more for new and cost-conscious smartphone buyers, Yotam Benami, Telefonica’… [Read more]
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