Mozilla Weaves Goodbye To Its $25 Smartphone Dream

As well as future v2.2 updates.

It looks like Mozilla’s plan to conquer the world with a $25 Firefox OS smartphone did not exactly went as planned. According to the recently revealed internal email that was sent by the Chris Beard himself (the CEO of Mozilla), the open source organization has failed to gain any sufficient traction to justify the further significant investments as far as the ultra-low cost smartphone program goes.

“We have not seen sufficient traction for a $25 phone, and we will not pursue all parts of the program. We will focus on efforts that provide a better user experience, rather than focusing on cost alone.”

On a positive note, it won’t be abandoned completely. In addition to that, Mozilla will march forward with the development and release of Firefox OS v3. As a result, v2.2 will no longer receive any feature updates as he added, “We will ship v2.2 and all pending work to deliver entry-level smartphones with our key partners. Additional appropriate feature work will be rolled into Ignite. v2.2 will be maintained as a long-lived branch with security and stability updates only.”

Only time will tell.

[Via: cNET]