Mozilla recently revealed manufacturer support for their new Firefox OS, with ZTE and TCL / Alcatel announcing that they will make handsets available for the platform in 2013.
But what exactly is the Firefox OS? At its heart it runs on a version of Linux, just like Android and very similar to Apple iOS which (like Linux) is derived from Unix. Joining them in the Unix/Linux based OS world are Maemo, Moblin, LiMo, MeeGo, Tizen and Bada. So clearly, this platform seems to be a good one to run mobile devices on.

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