{"id":954,"date":"2009-02-06T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T23:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2009-02-06T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T23:11:27","slug":"concept-series-phones-and-oss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/02\/concept-series-phones-and-oss\/","title":{"rendered":"Concept Series: Phones and OSs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2008\/08\/introducing-the-concept-series-call-for-participation\/\">launch<\/a> of the Mozilla Labs&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/projects\/concept-series\/\">Concept Series<\/a>, we&#8217;ve had hundreds of people join in a shared exploration of design directions for Firefox, the Mozilla project, and the Web as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/projects\/concept-series\/\">call for participation<\/a>, Billy May has been taking a look at what a phone might look like in this context.  What would the ultimate web phone look like? What would give it Mozilla DNA?  He&#8217;s put up an interesting throw-away &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mozphone.com\">Open Web Concept Phone<\/a>&#8221; as a Blackberry meets interactive OLED keyboard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mozphone.com\"><img><br \/>Open Web Concept Phone by Billy May<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein, Adaptive Path&#8217;s contribution to the Concept Series, <a href=\"http:\/\/adaptivepath.com\/aurora\/\">Aurora<\/a>, explores what a Mozilla phone and OS might look like; taking the concept of Mozilla Lab&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/projects\/weave\/\">Weave<\/a> to the extreme, letting the Web be the unifying agent between computer, mobile, and wall-sized interactions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/1481810\">Aurora Concept by Adaptive Path<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Mozilla doesn&#8217;t have plans to produce an OS or phone hardware at the moment &mdash; this doesn&#8217;t mean that either are out of scope for Mozilla Labs and that&#8217;s the point of the Concept Series.  Everything is on the table.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the start and we&#8217;re excited to be working with people from around the world in a shared exploration of new ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the launch of the Mozilla Labs&#8217; Concept Series, we&#8217;ve had hundreds of people join in a shared exploration of design directions for Firefox, the Mozilla project, and the Web as a whole. Responding to the call for participation, Billy &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/02\/concept-series-phones-and-oss\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4863,16577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}