Tuesday, March 3, 2015

LIVE – Orange launches Firefox smartphone to $ 40 – BBC

Orange was seduced by Firefox OS, free and open system of the Mozilla Foundation. It presents on its stand on Klift, its first smartphone running the system free and open the Mozilla Foundation.

This phone will be sold in the nineteen African countries where Orange is present, starting with Egypt, Senegal, Tunisia, Cameroon, Botswana, Madagascar, Mali, Côte Ivory, Jordan, Niger, Kenya, Mauritius and Vanuatu. Orange has no intenteion distribute around the world, particularly in France.

This is telephone entry level, among the cheapest that are currently available commercially in those countries. It will therefore proposed around 40 dollars (35 euros) with six months prepaid Internet access ( . monthly 500 MB), calls and SMS Once these six months, it will take out a new offer


Klift is manufactured by the Chinese TCL, better known by the brand Alcatel One Touch. The grip is good. For this price, it does not expect to phenomenal technical characteristics. Picture there is a 2 megapixel sensor, a dual-core Mediatek chip, a battery of 3000 maH and two SIM card slots.

With this smartphone, Orange continues its mission to “provide access to Internet the greatest number, “said Yves Maitre, Head of Partnerships and objects connected with Orange. Land on which he finds the Net giants like Facebook and Google.

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