The Firefox Firefight has begun!

Spice Fire One Mi–FX 1 and Intex Cloud FX, both under Rs. 3000 - Mozilla isn’t simply making cool browsers, they’re going mobile too, and doing it cheap

How it unfolded

2012: I’m sitting with some people from Mozilla and they are all so excited about their dream, a $25 smartphone, that they keep interrupting each other and I can make no sense of the meeting. I dismiss it as one more group with their heart in the right place and their brains all over the place!
2013: I’m shown some Firefox phones and a roadmap of how these phones will change the world. They will mainly be for the developing world, and India would be a key market. I play around with the phones and dismiss them again as they are sluggish and frankly, terrible to look at.
2014: I’m given a proper ‘ready for the market’ Firefox phone priced at about $25 to play around with at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The phones are very well built, the OS is smooth and the experience is good. I am changing my mind, but I’m sceptical about the $25 price.
August 2014: Two companies in India will launch the Firefox phone: Spice and Intex. Each is moving fast to announce that they are the first, each is selling around the $25 mark, each claims that they have the better product. The Firefox Firefight has begun.

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