Mozilla has revamped its Firefox OS strategy, and will no longer focus on creating sub $25 range phones, reports Cnet. According to the report, Firefox CEO Chris Beard sent an email to members of Mozilla’s projects’ developers community, informing them of this development. Note that, Mozilla launched its low cost smartphones in India in August last year which included Fire One Mi-FX 1, a phone by Spice that cost Rs 2299 . The company had earlier revealed in June that it had inked deals with Indian phone makers Spice and Intex, to introduced these low-cost devices in the country. Other than this the company claims to have launched low cost smartphones in over 17 countries across Africa, Europe and Latin America. In his email, Beard said that the strategy of merely offering the lowest price smartphone will not succeed, and the company will now instead focus on the ‘Ignite’ initiative, which will focus on creating higher end phones. Interestingly, he mentions the company will continue to develop the feature phones it had said it would at the MWC earlier this year. Another thing of note Beard mentioned is that Firefox would explore the implementation of Android app compatibility. It will be very interesting to see if the company will pull this off, as it will give Firefox users access to thousands of apps before native ones are developed. It will improve user adoption of its OS, and provide devs with an incentive to eventually port apps to Firefox OS as…
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