{"id":1996,"date":"2013-02-25T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T09:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2013-02-25T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T09:40:35","slug":"first-sight-of-firefox-os-at-mobile-world-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1996-first-sight-of-firefox-os-at-mobile-world-congress.html","title":{"rendered":"First sight of Firefox OS at Mobile World Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcatel OneTouch has a preview of its Firefox OS smartphone on display at its stand here in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>3.5\u201d HVGA, 1Ghz CPU, 3.2Mp camera, 256Mb RAM, 180Mb internal storage, MicroSD, 1400mAh battery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image_thumb14.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"549\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and to give you the scale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image_thumb15.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"394\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The phone looks ordinary, but bear in mind the Mozilla philosophy which is more geared to universal, open access than to high-end smartphones for the few.<\/p>\n<p>Several well-known names have signed up, but that in itself does not mean much. What counts is the extent of that commitment. A device like this one looks more about \u201clet\u2019s put it out and see who bites\u201d rather than serious investment.<\/p>\n<p>The app story (HTML 5 based, naturally) is key and I will be investigating later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcatel OneTouch has a preview of its Firefox OS smartphone on display at its stand here in Barcelona. 3.5\u201d HVGA, 1Ghz CPU, 3.2Mp camera, 256Mb RAM, 180Mb internal storage, MicroSD, 1400mAh battery. and to give you the scale The phone looks ordinary, but bear in mind the Mozilla philosophy which is more geared to universal, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1996-first-sight-of-firefox-os-at-mobile-world-congress.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First sight of Firefox OS at Mobile World Congress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1152],"tags":[389,599,839],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-smartphones","tag-firefox","tag-mobile","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}