On the eve of the Mobile World Congress, which kicked off in Barcelona today, Mozilla officially announced its plans to launch Firefox OS optimized smartphones this summer, while providing a few details about carriers and manufacturers that will support the new HTML5 based platform. The first Firefox OS phones will be ready to roll out in July of this year in parts of Europe, Asia, the Americas, with launches in the UK and US to follow in 2014.
Huawei, LG, ZTE, Alcatel, and Sony are a few of the companies confirmed to have Firefox OS optimized devices in the works. Sprint is the only American carrier confirmed at the moment, but Telecom Italia, Telefonica (Spain), Unicom (China), America Movil (Mexico), and Deutsche Telekom (Germany) are just a few of the carriers on board for the rollout beginning this summer.
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