Posted Feb 24, 2012
Mozilla Smart Phone to be Announced - with LG
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From the The Carriers Strike Back dept.:
Mozilla will also be announcing that it has partnered up with LG to make a developer-oriented mobile device. Our source couldn’t confirm the specs or the price, but with MWC around the corner we should know soon. Availability-wise, it’s possible that the LG device will go on sale next week, but considering how nascent B2G is — it will probably be usable by the middle of 2012 — it’s important to stress that this is very much a developer device.
....Now the LG partnership is pretty extraordinary in itself, but that’s not all. Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and the Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla, says that there will be partners, plural, at MWC. Unfortunately our inside source couldn’t give us any information on who these partners might be, but we can make an educated guess: Carriers; carriers like AT&T, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, and many others who have registered their distaste for the proprietary, walled gardens that Apple and Google have been building around their mobile operating systems.
Basically, Apple and Google have so much control over the smartphone landscape that carriers have effectively become nothing more than retailers. Worse than that, their infrastructures have been reduced to that of a dumb pipe, where it is Apple and Google who ultimately decide how the network will be used.
extremetech.com
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