Monday, March 3, 2008
Mozilla in Talks with Carriers About Firefox Mobile
Posted by Rocco Augusto in "Smartphone Talk" @ 05:39 PM
http://www.theunwired.net/?item=neg...-firefox-mobile
"Mozilla's Firefox Mobile will hit smartphones like Windows Mobile and Linux devices later this year and as Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla Vide President Engineering, unveiled this week, beside users also mobile carriers and operators are interested to learn more about Mozilla's latest mobile device project. Schroepfer is quoted, that Mozilla's mission is to break open a closed market but he knows that it won't happen overnight. And while Windows Mobile devices includes a web browser already, namely Internet Explorer Mobile, it looks like operators and ODMs aren't satisfied with Internet Explorer anymore which must be the reason for adding Opera Mobile on their smartphones in addition."
I played around with some of the latest builds of Minimo a few weeks back and I have to say, I was pretty unimpressed. The program was nowhere near up to par with a majority of the releases you see coming out of the Mozilla campus. I hope, for all that is good and mobile, that the good folks over at Mozilla really polish the user experience on their upcoming release of Firefox Mobile. Right now, we have pretty slim pickings when it comes to choosing a good functional web browser on our Standard base devices and if there was a way to bring that Gecko based rendering engine to the portable world, it would make all of our browsing experiences better compared to what we currently have. While I am a fan of Opera's mobile offerings, I never really liked the look and feel of them and would love to use something that looked more like the screenshot above.
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