The Japanese electronics company has “an ambition” to release a Firefox OS phone next year in partnership with carrier Telefonica.
BARCELONA, Spain–Under a broadened partnership with mobile network operator Telefonica, Sony Mobile is exploring support for Mozilla’s new Firefox OS and hopes to release a phone with it next year.
“Our engineers are now working with Firefox OS Mobile and HTML5, evolving technologies which show great potential. In addition, we continue to work with our operator partners, including Telefónica, on a development project with an ambition to bring a product to market in 2014,” said Bob Ishida, head of Sony Mobile Communications’ Products Business Group, in a statement yesterday at the Mobile World Congress show here.