ZTE has revealed it is working with an unnamed European carrier on launching a smartphone based on Mozilla’s Firefox OS in Europe this year.
According to Bloomberg, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer is also looking at a potential US launch of the device this year, depending on its success in Europe.
“We [will] closely monitor the ecosystem and how it evolves,” says ZTE’s US chief executive, Cheng Lixin.
“If that is ready and if consumer studies support that data, then we may launch [the smartphone] in the US also this year.”
Mozilla, best known for the Firefox web browser, has been working with leading European carriers, fabless chipmaker Qualcomm, ZTE and Alcatel on the low-cost Firefox OS smartphone platform, which uses web standard protocols such as HTML5 for app development.
Andrew Sadauskas is a former journalist at SmartCompany and a former editor of TechCompany.
