{"id":1484,"date":"2015-05-08T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T11:14:36","slug":"orange-launches-first-firefox-os-smartphones-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2015\/05\/08\/orange-launches-first-firefox-os-smartphones-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Launches First Firefox OS Smartphones in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Orange Launches First Firefox OS Smartphones in Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are happy to share that the first Firefox OS smartphones went\u00a0on sale in Senegal and Madagascar this week. This follows an announcement from Mozilla and Orange \u00a0at <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/01\/firefox-os-proves-flexibility-of-web-ecosystem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mobile World Congress 2015 <\/a>that Firefox OS smartphones would be available in markets across Africa and the Middle East later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to partner with Orange to bring the the mobile Web to users in a substantial number of new growth markets across Africa and the Middle East said Andreas Gal, CTO of Mozilla. \u201cI\u2019m also thrilled to see how\u00a0the imminent arrival of Firefox OS has created excitement in the local Mozilla communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firefox OS is the first truly open mobile platform built entirely on Web technologies, bringing more choice and control to the mobile industry. Through these launches, Mozilla and Orange deliver on the promise of putting the\u00a0mobile Web within reach of millions more people, not previously addressed by mobile offers. The Orange offer features the newest Firefox OS phone, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcatelonetouch.com\/global-en\/news\/pressroom\/Latest_Orange_Klif.html#goStar\" target=\"_blank\">the Orange Klif<\/a>. This 3G Firefox OS\u00a0smartphone is exclusive to Orange.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1450 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2015\/03\/ffos-252x214.jpg\" alt=\"ffos\" width=\"252\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2015\/03\/ffos-252x214.jpg 252w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2015\/03\/ffos-600x509.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2015\/03\/ffos.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With these launches, the Firefox OS presence in Africa continues to grow and Orange will launch Firefox OS smartphones in more countries in the coming weeks. Earlier this spring, Firefox OS phones<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/firefox-os-arrives-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\"> launched in South\u00a0Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange Launches First Firefox OS Smartphones in Africa We are happy to share that the first Firefox OS smartphones went\u00a0on sale in Senegal and Madagascar this week. This follows an &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2015\/05\/08\/orange-launches-first-firefox-os-smartphones-in-africa\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}