Firefox OS Smart Phones to be launched this month



Firefox OS, Boot to Gecko, B2G is an open web app based mobile operating system being developed by Mozilla.Its designed to allow HTML5 applications to use the hardware resources using JavaScript and Open Web APIs. Firefox announced today, that Firefox OS Smart Phones will be launched this month in market. Till date, the Firefox Smart Phone was available only to developers, which was known as the Developers' Phone. But from this month, Firefox OS Devices will be available in select markets.

 Firefox claims to free people from the existing proprietary mobile platforms by taking the open web beyond browsers to mobile operating system. Open Web Apps is the best part with Firefox OS liberating more freedom to users and developers.

Firefox OS is being launched in two phones this month. The first two phones to launch Firefox OS are ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch. ZTE Open is being launched in Spain today for a price of $90. The devices are being launched in Central and Eastern Europe. And they have a specification fo 256MB RAM, 3.2 MP Camera, along with support for Bluetooth, A-GPS and WiFi. ZTE will have a 1GHz processor and Alcatel will have a Qualcomm processor.


Firefox OS not only runs in the Geeks Phone, but also it can be installed in other devices mentioned below by building the source code:

  • Samsung Nexus S
  • Samsung Nexus S 4G
  • Samsung Galaxy S2
  • Samsung Galaxy Nexus
  • Tara
  • Inari
  • Unagi
  • Otoro
  • Pandaboard
  • & yes Desktops too

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Automate file upload in Selenium IDE

Image
Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It records your interactions with websites to help you generate and maintain site automation, tests, and remove the need to manually step through repetitive tasks. Selenium IDE can be installed in Google Chrome from  here . For Firefox visit this  link . File upload in Selenium IDE cannot be automated simply by recording from the IDE. Because when we select the file input field, the dialog that opens up is a system window which cannot be controlled by Selenium IDE. Therefore, clicking the input file field to select a file will not work. Also the selected file path is changed to C:\fakepath\filename.extension. So to fix this issue, we need to configure the browser to support file upload and then instead of clicking the input field we set the file using ‘type’ selenium command which is shown below. First, to support file upload in Selenium IDE, configure your browser to support file upload: Visit ‘chrome://
Read more

How To Install and Configure Nextcloud

Image
  Original post: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-20-04 Step 1 – Installing Nextcloud We will be installing Nextcloud using the  Snap  packaging system. This packaging system, available on Ubuntu 20.04 by default, allows organizations to ship software, along with all associated dependencies and configuration, in a self-contained unit with automatic updates. This means that instead of installing and configuring a web and database server and then configuring the Nextcloud app to run on it, we can install the  snap  package which handles the underlying systems automatically. To download the Nextcloud snap package and install it on the system, type: sudo snap install nextcloud Copy The Nextcloud package will be downloaded and installed on your server. You can confirm that the installation process was successful by listing the changes associated with the snap: snap changes nextcloud Copy Output ID Status Spawn
Read more