Mozilla's Firefox OS operating system continues its slow rollout around the world, with vendors starting to ship devices using the open source, browser-based smartphone platform this week.
Spanish telecom giant Telefónica has previously sold Firefox OS in Spain, but most of its efforts have been focused on its subsidiaries in Spanish-speaking emerging markets, including Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Starting Thursday, Telefónica began taking pre-orders for the Alcatel OneTouch Fire E in Germany under its O2 brand. The OneTouch Fire E is the second Firefox OS phone from Alcatel and the first to offer what Mozilla has called “mid-tier hardware” for the platform. It features a 1.2GHz dual-core processor — likely a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8210 SoC, judging by Mozilla’s hardware — plus a 4.5-inch display with a 960-by-540 resolution, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage.
