Smartphones for $ 25 by Mozilla will begin to sell before the end of the year

Mozilla Corporation came close to the production of smartphones for $ 25: according to the company’s press release , the devices will appear on the market this year.

Smartphones at the price of simple phones will begin to be sold in India (and Indonesia, according to WSJ ) “In the next few months,” said Mozilla. The company demonstrated a model of the device at the Mobile Asia Expo exhibition in Shanghai.

The plans for the release of cheap smartphones, the developer of the browser Firefox stated at the beginning of the year, the prototype was presented at a press conference on the eve of the Mobile World Congress exhibition in February. As a price bar, Mozilla immediately set $ 25 to cover the market of poor Asian countries, where, as they say in the company, the device for $ 50 is considered too expensive.

According to the recent report of the IDC research company, the smartphone market in India is currently growing faster than any other Asian country: by 186% in the first quarter of 2014. For comparison: the Chinese market over this period increased by 31%.

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