{"id":946,"date":"2013-07-11T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/?p=946"},"modified":"2013-07-11T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:51:45","slug":"deutsche-telekom-announces-european-launch-of-firefox-os-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2013\/07\/deutsche-telekom-announces-european-launch-of-firefox-os-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Telekom Announces European Launch of Firefox OS Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Open Web devices powered by Firefox OS on sale in Poland starting July 12th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, today, Deutsche Telekom announced that sales of the ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire powered by Firefox OS will start soon in Europe. T-Mobile Poland will offer the Firefox OS-powered smartphone via its online sales channels already from tomorrow on and from July 15 nationwide in 850 shops.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/files\/2013\/07\/Alcatel-One-Touch-Fire.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-952 alignleft\" alt=\"Altactel-One-Touch-Fire-small\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/files\/2013\/07\/Altactel-One-Touch-Fire-small-252x417.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/files\/2013\/07\/Altactel-One-Touch-Fire-small-252x417.jpg 252w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/files\/2013\/07\/Altactel-One-Touch-Fire-small-96x160.jpg 96w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/files\/2013\/07\/Altactel-One-Touch-Fire-small.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a>Market launches in additional European countries will follow in the fall. In Germany, the Firefox OS smartphone will be marketed via Deutsche Telekom&#8217;s second brand congstar. The company\u2019s subsidiaries in Hungary (Magyar Telekom) and Greece (COSMOTE) will also begin sales of the\u00a0ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire this fall.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deutsche Telekom has <a title=\"Mozilla in Mobile \u2013 the Web is the Platform\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/mozilla-in-mobile-the-web-is-the-platform\/\">long been involved<\/a>, along with other partners, in the development of Firefox OS. \u201cWe are excited to see T-Mobile launching a Firefox OS device in Poland,\u201d said Mitchell Baker, Executive Chairperson, Mozilla Foundation. \u201cThanks to our active community, Poland has always been a stronghold for Firefox and Mozilla. It has been great to work with a local partner that shares our enthusiasm for the idea of an open Web device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"European launch of Firefox OS Smartphone at Deutsche Telekom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telekom.com\/media\/company\/190078\">Deutsche Telekom press release<\/a> (11 July 2013)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones!\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2013\/07\/mozilla-and-partners-prepare-to-launch-first-firefox-os-smartphones\/\">Mozilla press release: Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones<\/a> (1 July 2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/os\/\">Firefox OS Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Iu8q-oISbas\">Firefox OS Demo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Web devices powered by Firefox OS on sale in Poland starting July 12th At a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, today, Deutsche Telekom announced that sales of the ALCATEL &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2013\/07\/deutsche-telekom-announces-european-launch-of-firefox-os-devices\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,24660],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}