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ZTE will bring second wave of Firefox OS phones to US next year

IDG News Service – ZTE plans on launching another phone running Mozilla’s Firefox OS, this time with a dual-core processor, a bigger screen,
and a revamped user experience, a company executive said on Tuesday.

The Chinese handset maker has so far sold about 100,000 of its first Firefox OS phone, the ZTE Open, said He Shiyou, the company’s
executive vice president. The low-end phone was built for developing markets such as Latin America, but later made available
in the U.S. and U.K., where it quickly sold out at prices of $ 79.99 and APS59.99, respectively.

The phone’s sales volume is small compared to the millions of Android handsets and iPhones that fly off store shelves weekly,
but ZTE has been pleased with the initial demand, and hopes sales will eventually reach 200,000 units, He said in an interview
with journalists.

“On the whole, the sales have been pretty good, especially on eBay and with third-party retailers,” he said. “The demand has
exceeded supply, but we also purposely did not want this first generation product to have a large scale.”

ZTE’s next Firefox phone will arrive in the first half of 2014, and remain priced at the lower end. The Chinese company largely
sells Android handsets, but has high hopes the Web-based Firefox operating system will eventually go mainstream.

“These Web-based OSes will develop fast, particularly because of 4G LTE technology,” he said. Higher-speed networks means
that HTML5-based apps can load quickly on phones, removing the need to download and install native apps, He added.

“In the future, the app store business model will be no more,” he said. “The Firefox OS is still new, and it will bring an
entirely different user experience.”

ZTE was ranked as the world’s fifth-largest smartphone vendor in the second quarter, according to research firm Gartner. But
the company is not widely known in the U.S., where it generally sells unbranded versions of its phones with local carriers
including AT&T and Sprint.

ZTE will begin selling its Grand S and Nubia smartphones in the U.S. in Oct.

But starting in October, ZTE will begin selling its Grand S and Nubia phones in the U.S. through retailers.

The Grand S, launched in China earlier this year, is an Android phone with a 5-inch full-HD screen. It has a quad-core processor, 13-megapixel
camera, and its U.S. edition will probably come with a 2300 mAh battery. The price will range between US$ 400 and $ 500 when
bought without carrier subsidies.

ZTE’s Nubia Z5, another Android phone, features similar specs with a 5-inch full-HD screen and a quad-core processor. Its
price will range around $ 450.

For this year, the company is aiming to grow its U.S. handset revenue by 60 percent year on year to around $ 1.6 billion.

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.

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Mozilla"s Firefox Phones Get Operator Billing Through Bango

Mozilla has signed mobile payments company Bango to allow operator billing on the Firefox OS marketplace. That means that users on the soon-to-be-released Firefox phones will be able to pay for their apps via their phone bills.

This confirms a scoop that we had in February, where we first announced the Mozilla and Bango marriage.

Carrier billing is still not a common feature in smartphone app stores, where billing is typically charged to user credit cards, as it is with Google Play and the iOS App Store. But it’s especially significant in emerging markets, where credit card penetration is far from ubiquitous, and the prepaid segment remains sizable.

And as Mozilla positions its upcoming mid-range devices towards markets such as Latin America and Asia, the ability to provide carrier billing will help address the many unbanked users which don’t have credit cards.

Bango isn’t a stranger to large telecoms deals. The Cambridge-based firm signed a deal with mobile carrier Telefonica in January to power carrier billing for Telefonica’s services, covering the latter’s 314 million subscriber base.

The anticipated Firefox OS is Mozilla’s smartphone operating system based entirely on open Web standards such as HTML5. Mozilla is positioning it as an alternative for powering low-cost and mid-range devices, in particular by offering carriers more control over the inner workings of the phone, compared with Android, for example.

Bango raised $ 10.2 million in February 2013 to continue growing its customer base. It already provides carrier billing options to large clients such as Facebook, Amazon, BlackBerry and Opera, to name some, and says it has a reach of about a billion users.

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