Sony is working on a high-end smartphone with Firefox OS

Mozilla has announced that the mobile operating system Firefox OS on phones in the higher segment will appear. According to the developer, Sony was the first company with a high-end smartphone that Firefox OS is running.

Until now, phones with Firefox OS mainly aimed at the cheaper end of the smartphone market. According to developer Mozilla is easier to make in that segment of the market. Now the first mid-range models were introduced, the browsermaker however, even the high-end market is going to conquer, reports Computerworld. To this end, Mozilla together with Sony. Mozilla is more high-end devices developing, but it is unknown to which businesses are going.

Firefox OS is different just like Ubuntu for Phone of other mobile operating systems because it relies heavily on web standards. All applications must be written in html5, css3 and Javascript. According to Mozilla many websites with just a few lines of code be converted into an app for the mobile operating system. The developer mentions in addition, as an important difference that not only the operating system is open source, but also that the development is an open process. On Android, can phone only in retrospect customizations, but Firefox OS may be that during development, promises to be the browsermaker.