Last October, the Mozilla Foundation Announced that it would be setting its sights on Firefox Mobile.
Mitchell Baker recently told Technology Review that Firefox Mobile would be out sometime this year.
Baker said that Mozilla has been working on a module to make sure that the size and memory requirement of their code (for the Mobile Browser) is more suitable for cell phones and related devices.
Firefox brings the opportunity of choice for consumers. There are other browsers out there as well like Apple’s Safari and Opera Mini and the introduction of Mozilla Mobile should only enhance the customer experience. The good part about Firefox is that it’s open, not closed. Baker hopes that Mozilla Mobile can capitalize on the “innovation for developers, businesses for developers, and the kind of explosion of possibilities like what we’ve seen in the Web in the last few years.”
Baker also adds that she will not see her mobile device as a phone in the near future – “Sometimes being able to talk to someone voice to voice is what I want. Other times it’s really not. A device that I carry with me will be a device that’s not just a cell phone with other stuff attached to it. I want it to be pretty flexible.”
With 3G services soon to be launched in India as well (currently in testing), I think we too might come around to that stage. As of now the experience is pathetic. VAS too tend to be crappy and SMS Centric.
