LG Fireweb Smartphone Launched with Firefox OS

LG recently announced its first Firefox OS and the first smartphone, based on it, from a manufacturer of non-Chinese nationality. So to speak, from a western, LG's Fireweb smartphone has the advantage to (slightly) move Mozilla's upmarket mobile platform.

The LG Fireweb actually has a back sensor of 5 megapixel camera associated with an LED, while Alcatel One Touch Fire and ZTE Open come with a 3.2 megapixel camera without flash.

If it still displays a HVGA resolution (480 x 320 pixels) from another time, the screen goes further to 4 inches. This is double-edged phone, since the resolution is mechanically lower than a 3.5-inch screens competitor.

Other specifications are kind of similar. We especially found an expandable storage through a microSD card and ARM Cortex-A5 single core 1GHz CPU, probably a Qualcomm MSM7227, backed up by 512MB of RAM and associated with 4 GB of internal memory.

Firefox comes with OS 1.1, the LG Fireweb will soon be marketed exclusively by Telefonica Vivo operator at a retail price of 450 reals, the equivalent of 150 euros. It will be launched at a later stage in other Latin American countries.

In February, at the Mobile World Congress, the Taiwanese high-tech group had raised its interest in this open platform based on Web standards. Today it launched its offensive, initially in Latin America, particularly in Brazil, via the operator Vivo, a subsidiary of Telefonica. The Fireweb is positioned in a market already occupied by ZTE Open which is marketed in Spain, Colombia or Venezuela.