Foxconn goes on with Mozilla Firefox OS products

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The Taiwanese company Hon Hai wants in its Foxconn factories consumer electronics are going to produce that runs on Firefox OS, including smartphones, tablets, and televisions. Therefore, the company entered into a collaboration with Mozilla.

The cooperation between Hon Hai and Mozilla was announced Monday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. Hon Hai, which, in its Foxconn factories includes many of the hardware Apple produces, let us know that the variety of products on the basis of Firefox OS want to release, including smartphones, tablets and televisions, but also electronic whiteboards and advertising displays will.

Hon Hai would currently five specific products work, but the company dropped in the middle to which the products concerned. According to rumors has Foxconn already has a tablet on the basis of Firefox OS was developed. Further, left the Taiwanese company to know together with Mozilla to work on new hardware, software and services. This is in the south of Taiwan, in the place in Kaohsiung, a subsidiary of Hon Hai opened where five hundred to a thousand workers to such products to go to work.

In the long term believe the parent company of Foxconn, with a market share of 10 percent to be able to conquer with products on the basis of the opensourcebesturingssysteem. For this purpose, the consumer electronics for its partner companies develop and release; there would be no plans to use them under the Foxconn brand name, reports FocusTaiwan.

The agreement with Hon Hai, is an important for Mozilla in its attempt to with Firefox OS, an operating system that all of the software in a browser running, foot on the ground to get into the mobile market and compete with iOS and Android. The non-profit organization, already has collaborations with hardware manufacturers Alcatel, TCL, LG, ZTE and Huawei. Also, there are deals signed with providers, while the first developertelefoons already available. Smartphones with Firefox OS have this summer come true in Venezuela, Spain and Poland.