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First Firefox OS Phones Starts Shipping Worldwide; Sold Out In Minutes

Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 20:36 IST
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Of the two released devices, the lower specced Keon is priced at $119 and it will come with Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 1GHz processor, 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen display, 3MP camera, and 4GB of internal storage,  microSD support, Wi-Fi (N), and GPS, but has no secondary camera.



The Peak is slightly higher priced at $194 and sports higher specs too, it comes with dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon S4 processor, 4.3-inch qHD display, 8 MP primary and 2MP secondary camera, 4GB of internal storage and higher capacity battery.



In order to encourage developers, Stormy Peters, head of developer engagement at Mozilla, in a blog post said,  “With early access to hardware, developers can test the capabilities of Firefox OS in a real environment with a mobile network and true hardware characteristics like the accelerometer and camera that are not easily tested on the Firefox OS Simulator. Plus, new hardware is fun to play with!”



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