Samsung abaikan tawaran Firefox OS

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Meski telah mendapat dukungan dari lima produsen ponsel di dunia, sistem operasi ponsel pintar Mozilla Firefox tidak mampu menggaet Samsung turut serta.

Pimpinan Samsung, seperti dilansir CNET dalam Mobile World Congress, mengaku tidak tertarik pada sistem operasi berbasis Open Web Mozilla, Firefox.

Keputusan Samsung itu tak mengejutkan mengingat produsen ponsel asal Korea Selatan itu akan meluncurkan sistem operasi hasil pengembangan sendiri, Tizen OS.

Samsung kabarnya akan meluncurkan ponsel pintar bersistem operasi Tizen Juli atau Agustus nanti.

Di sisi lain, Firefox OS akan terus membentuk aliansi dengan Huawei, LG, ZTE, Alcatel, dan Sony.

Tidak hanya produsen ponsel ternama, perusahaan bisnis pemula Geeksphone juga dikabarkan sedang memproduksi dua model ponsel pintar bersistem operasi Firefox.

Perusahaan pemula asal Spanyol itu mengatakan akan menjual ponsel Firefox-nya melalui situs resmi dalam beberapa pekan mendatang.

(I026)

sumber: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57571111-78/samsung-no-interest-in-mozillas-firefox-os/

Samsung: No interest in Mozilla's Firefox OS

CNET has learned that the biggest potential partner will skip Mozilla's browser-based smartphone OS. Samsung has other operating system priorities -- Android and Tizen.

BARCELONA, Spain--Mozilla and a slew of allies debuted Firefox OS this week -- but one powerful potential partner is passing.

That company is Samsung, which like Apple is a dominant smartphone maker. A high-level Samsung executive said at the Mobile World Congress show here that Samsung isn't interested in Mozilla's browser-based operating system.

That shouldn't come as a surprise given the company's other mobile operating system choices. Samsung is the top dog in the Android market -- its new flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone will debut March 14 -- and the most obvious OS alternative is Tizen.

Samsung plans to launch its first Tizen-based smartphone in July or August.

Firefox OS does have some serious allies among handset manufacturers: Huawei, LG Electronics, ZTE, and Alcatel. In addition, a Spanish startup called Geeksphone is building two models for Firefox OS developers.

Those phones, the Geeksphone Peak and Keon, should go on sale through the company's Web site "in coming weeks," the company said today.