Fireweb : LG lance son premier smartphone sous Firefox OS. LG se lance sur le marché des smartphones Firefox OS.
Après les entrées de gamme pas inintéressantes de ZTE ou d’Alcatel, le constructeur coréen annonce le Fireweb. On reste néanmoins sur un positionnement « budget », ce qui correspond bien au marché de la plateforme. Firefox OS : deux téléphones en France la semaine prochaine pour 91 et 149 euros. Firefox OS : un lancement en juin et des partenariats de choix.
Firefox OS Disrupts: It Is A Web-Based Phone For emerging Markets. With this week’s hulaballoo around the iPhone 5, it’s tempting to dismiss Firefox OS, the mobile operating system from browser maker Mozilla.
But of the two, Firefox OS is the one which aims to shake things up – while the new iPhone is just an update. Why do we need another OS when the existing ones are fighting so hard for market share, and previously strong players like RIM are going down the drain? Firefox OS is based on a Linux kernel and runs apps entirely in HTML5.
Why has Mozilla done this, and why are the first phones launching in Brazil? As it turns out, the organisation has two clear aims – and TechWeekEurope got a good explanation of both in a face-to-face chat with its CTO, Brendan Eich. Forget the iPhone 5! In a nutshell, Eich believes it is time to open the market for mobile operating systems the way Firefox did for browsers, and he thinks the best place to do this is in the developing world, where there is a hungry market for better feature phones. Mark Zuckerberg promises a native Android app, says betting on HTML5 for mobile was a 'mistake'
Speaking with Michael Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that "we've had a bunch of missteps on [mobile]," specifically referring to its mobile app strategy.
"The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5 instead of native... We burnt two years. " He said that the company would also drop HTML5 in its Android app as well, and that a native version would be coming "soon. " "Native is going to be the approach. " "We're betting completely on it," he said, referring to native apps. He also spoke about Facebook's somewhat tumultuous recent history since its IPO. "The performance of the stock has obviously been disappointing. " As for the stock price, which has lost half its value since the IPO, Zuckerberg admitted that "The performance of the stock has obviously been disappointing. " Pour Mark Zuckerberg, miser sur la technologie HTML5 pour mobile était une « erreur » - FrAndroid - Android. Sencha demonstrates HTML 5 can be faster than native iOS or Android apps (Facebook example)
Fastbook. The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story. When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn't need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons in hand, we knew developers could build applications that would delight users. The advent of HTML5 upped the game and it gave developers even more tools to let them treat the browser as an application development platform and not a page rendering engine.
Developers sprang at the opportunity and unleashed a torrent of apps — on both desktop and mobile — that leveraged the new HTML5 capabilities to build amazing applications using web standards. So, when Mark Zuckerberg said HTML5 wasn't ready, we took a little offense to the comment. We thought to ourselves: HTML5 can't really be the reason that Facebook's mobile application was slow. “So, when Mark Zuckerberg said HTML5 wasn't ready, we took a little offense to the comment.” Re-Implementing the News Feed Bonus Points. There is something magical about Firefox OS. Over the past year and a half I've been spending more and more of my time working with Mozilla's latest project, Firefox OS.
During that time I've fallen in love with the project and what it stands for, in ways that I've never experienced with a technology platform before. Il y a quelque chose de magique dans Firefox OS ! Le système d’exploitation Firefox OS peut libérer nos smartphones et autres tablettes en apportant une alternative à Apple et Android, un peu comme l’a fait le navigateur Firefox avec le Web en son temps.
Nous vous proposons ci-dessous le témoignage passionné (et passionnant) d’un de ses développeurs. Il y a quelque chose de magique dans Firefox OS There is something magical about Firefox OS Rob Hawkes - 12 septembre 2012 - Blog personnel(Traduction : Un gros collectif de bénévoles nocturnes issus de Framalang, Identi.ca et Twiiter) Dans ce billet, je parle du projet Firefox OS, ce qu’il signifie, ce que réserve le futur, et ce qu’il a d’un peu magique. Mozilla invente le premier smartphone qui ne vous piste pas. Chez Mozilla, on défend la liberté à tout prix.
Previewing Mozilla Firefox OS, an HTML5-based interface. In attendance at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular in New York City last night was Mozilla Firefox, and we got some hands-on time with the operating system the open-source web browser is currently developing.
The Firefox OS (working name, as far as we know) is still in a heavy beta mode, and is built entirely on HTML5. The rep we spoke to demoed the OS using an unbranded ZTE phone, noting that Firefox has stripped the Android out of the phone and created its own operating system from the ground up. What what we can see, the OS is fully web-based in that every app and functionality runs off the web browser. Making phone calls is equivalent to calling on Skype, taking pictures is akin to snapping flicks with Apple’s Photo Booth, searching straight from the homepage is like having a shortcut to the Firefox search tool bar.
MWC : vidéo de Firefox OS et ses terminaux à moins de 100€ ! Annoncé au MWC, Firefox OS compte se faire une petite place sur le marché très concurrentiel de la téléphonie mobile. Pour rappel, Firefox OS sera proposée aux clients du Brésil, de Colombie, de Hongrie, du Mexique, du Monténégro, de Pologne, de Serbie, d’Espagne et du Venezuela.