The company only offers the platform for vendors to load on handsets

Jun 21, 2013 17:41 GMT  ·  By

Firefox OS, the open mobile operating system that Mozilla is working on bringing to the market before the end of this year, won’t arrive on shelves on devices that will sport the company’s branding, it seems.

Speaking to DigiTimes, Gong Li, Mozilla Mobile Device senior vice president and Asia Operations president, said that the company was looking only at providing handset vendors with the possibility to launch smartphones powered by the platform.

“Mozilla just provides an operating system and online store of Firefox OS-based applications. China-based ZTE, TCL and Huawei as well as LG and Sony Mobile will launch Firefox OS smartphones for sale under their brands through cooperation with mobile telecom carriers,” Gong Li reportedly said.

He also said that Mozilla does not aim at collaborating with certain ODMs in order to launch handsets that would sport its branding on them so as to promote the OS even better.