Firefox OS in smartphone surfaces to vie with Andorid, iOS, Windows devices

Madrid: Spain's Telefonica is providing the world's initial smartphone with the Firefox OS to vie with devices running Google automaton and Apple IOS.

The ZTE Open smartphone goes on sale in European country in the week for sixty nine euros (about $90) and can before long be offered in many resident countries.

The device is aimed toward the youth market and at those who area unit new smartphones, Telefonica's chief of development, terrorist Placido Domingo, aforementioned throughout a national capital news conference wherever he was joined by executives from Mozilla and telephone-maker ZTE.

Equipped with a 3.5-inch 480x320-pixel touchscreen, the ZTE Open includes a 3.2MP camera, 256MB RAM and 512MB non-volatile storage increased with a 4GB microSD card that comes as a part of the package.

The purchase worth includes thirty euros ($39) of pay-as-you-go credit.

The ZTE Open is totally integrated with Facebook and also the Spain-based social network Tuenti and talks area unit on concerning incorporating the WhatsApp instant-messaging service, Telefonica aforementioned.

Mozilla executives aforementioned the ZTE Open is that the "first chapter" in what they expect to be a protracted project, one that's already attracting interest from several different telecommunications firms.