ZTE shares news of MWC lineup: Grand Memo II LTE, smartwatch, more

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ZTE showed up to CES 2014 with a nice selection of devices in tow, including the Grand S II and Iconic Phablet (which we later looked at as the Boost MAX). We knew a lot about what to expect back then, thanks to the company announcing much of its hardware the week before CES got started. With MWC getting underway next week, ZTE is back to its old habits, and today reveals just what sort of spread it intends to put out for us. The highlight sounds like it ...

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Release date, pricing info surfaces for Geeksphone Revolution dual-OS phone

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Late last year we first started hearing about the Revolution from Geeksphone, a smartphone designed to run Android as well as Mozilla’s Firefox OS platform. The idea of dual-platform tablets is just starting to become a reality, so seeing the same sort of capability out of a phone is something worth paying attention to. Last month, we picked up some new hardware details on the model, and today start hearing about just how it could launch. The good news is that ...

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Firefox OS at MWC 2014 should sound exciting

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Firefox OS has been in and out of the headlines over the past couple of years; at the 2013 MWC we went hands-on with the Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open, while there were definitely other phones powered by the browser-based operating system, like the Alcatel One Touch Fire. However, there was little to get excited about then, and the same can be said about the recent past. According to Cnet, Firefox is planning a presence at this year’s upcoming MWC 2014. Not only that, but the report mentions an ...

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Images, new details arrive on dual-boot Geeksphone Revolution

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A bit over a month ago, we heard about a really interesting smartphone being worked on by the team at Geeksphone. You may recall the brand from its very early efforts into Firefox OS handsets, and this time it was returning to feature the upstart OS, but with a compelling twist: the phone would also be capable of running Android. We heard about a few specs back then, like a 4.7-inch qHD screen (quarter, not quad, mind you) and a 1.6GHz dual-core Intel ...

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Firefox OS developer tablet details revealed

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CES 2014 brought with it some news of what’s next for Mozilla and Firefox OS, including the platform making its way to televisions (webOS-style) as well as tablets. The company shared just such a tablet design, and offered a few initial specs, but this week the full picture finally emerges, as we get our hands on the details behind the first Firefox OS tablet. Like some of that early Tizen hardware we’ve mentioned on occasion, this Firefox tablet is intended specifically for developer ...

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Emerging mobile platforms: Will 2014 be the year?

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2013 was an interesting year – in theory. What I mean by that is 2013 saw a lot of activity in the theoretical mobile market. Theoretical because not many of the newcomers who stood up to be recognized actually had any kind of hardware that people could, you know, hold and use. But now that 2014 has rolled around, many of these emerging mobile platforms have actually started coming up with some promising looking stuff and we thought, with the dawn of the new year, we’d give them a look and see what we might expect. Many of the new kids on the block can be categorized into one of two ...

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Hardware specs emerge for Geeksphone Revolution dual Android/Firefox OS handset

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Nearly 11 months ago we got a look at the first two commercial Firefox OS smartphones, the Keon and Peak from Geeksphone. Since then, we’ve seen other manufacturers emerge to develop phones for the platform, and Geeksphone itself has run into a little trouble, ending up forced to cancel the Peak’s follow-up, the Peak+. Still, it’s continuing on with support for the platform, and last month word emerged of a device called the Revolution, which would be capable of running both Android and Firefox OS. ...

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The smartphone market sorely needs better competition

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We’re less than two short weeks away from the end of 2013 and it’s hard to deny that this year has been a pretty great one for smartphones. Sure, some players struggled more than others, but the industry’s in a stronger, more mature, and just more interesting place than it was a year ago. For all the progress that’s come our way, though, I wonder if we’re not missing out on even bigger and better things. Because as much as the landscape has grown, we’re still dealing with a small group of ...

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LG joins Firefox OS lineup with Fireweb handset

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Mozilla’s Firefox OS is out there on the scene, but it’s yet to really make its impression felt. There are plenty of reasons we can come up with for why it’s not bigger than it is, but let’s face it: it’s going to be an uphill battle for any of these platform upstarts to play with the big boys. At least one of the factors that may be keeping some users away from Firefox OS has been the hardware, none of it coming from from really big names. Sure, there’s ZTE, but that’s hardly a household name in ...

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Firefox OS OEMs moving to more capable hardware

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Mozilla’s Firefox OS often finds itself mentioned in the same sentence as platforms like Sailfish and Ubuntu Touch, but unlike those systems, where we’re still waiting to see how the smartphone-buying public will respond, Firefox OS is already out there. This year saw the start of sales for devices like the ZTE Open, and while modest, ZTE is apparently happy enough that it plans to move forward, sharing news of a more powerful Firefox OS smartphone due next year. While

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ZTE Open Firefox OS launch is at least getting the price right

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Geeksphone may have gotten the ball rolling for Firefox OS with its developer preview hardware, but when it comes to proper commercial retail hardware, ZTE will be the first to introduce many users to the platform, in the form of its ZTE Open. While curious to see how the OS will fare, we’ve been a little down on the Open itself (like many of these other early FFOS phones) due to its

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Firefox OS smartphone breezes through FCC

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Ready to add a little diversity to your smartphone choices? We’re starting to see a new breed of platforms get ready for commercial launches this year, and Mozilla’s Firefox OS sure sounds like one of the more ambitious. It’s already attracted interest from a number of OEMs, and quite a few handsets have been formally announced. Today, one of those early ones sees the publication of its FCC paperwork as it gets ready to go up for sale. ZTE announced its Open

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iPhone 5S display leaks, Galaxy Note III camera, Nexus 5 OEM & more – Pocketnow Daily

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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Mozilla Firefox OS and its probable arrival into the tablet market next week. Then it’s all about the iPhone 5S as it seems that the display on this device will have more pixels than the current one. The Samsung Galaxy Note III follows as it could adopt some optical image stabilization as part of the camera technology included. LG is next as the company has released the white variant of the Nexus 4 ahead of the rumored launch. We end today’s show talking about the rumors that Google’s future Nexus smartphone may not ...

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Mozilla Firefox OS tablet teased for next week

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Earlier this year, we learned the details on the first wave of smartphones running Mozilla’s Firefox OS. The big push should get started this summer, when we’ll first be seeing handsets running the new platform go up for sale in Europe. So far, a number of companies have shown interest from less renowned OEMs like Alcatel or ZTE to even manufacturers like Sony, providing an experimental ROM ...

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HTC HD2 Continues to Run Every Platform Under the Sun: Now Firefox OS

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There’s a point which we’re coming up on, if we haven’t reached it already, where it makes more sense to think of the HTC HD2 in terms of what mobile platforms it DOESN’T run than those that it does. In just the past year we’ve seen it get Jelly Bean, Windows Phone 8, and even full-on Windows RT. ...

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