Firefox OS is a new open source mobile operating system built using HTML5 and web technologies. It allows developers to create customized user experiences through web applications instead of relying on native apps. Firefox OS connects directly to hardware using web APIs and a small kernel, making it more lightweight than proprietary mobile platforms. It aims to bring the full smartphone experience to more affordable devices and give developers and content owners more control through its open web approach.

1. FIREFOX OS
Bringing the Open Web to Mobile Devices
Sumanth Damarla
Firefox App Developer Mentor
twitter: @Sumanth_Damarla – damarla.sumanth@gmail.com

2. TODAY

3. Mobile Industry is DOMINATED by
PROPRIETARY Mobile Platforms

4. TOMORROW

5. FIREFOX OS
Built entirely using HTML5
& standard Web APIs without
the need for an intermediate
OS layer
Complete, standalone
operating system for the open
Web

6. Create Customized & Differentiated
User Experiences (everything is a Web
app)
Variations around the Home
screen
Variations around
the dialer

7. Firefox OS: How an Open Web
Phone connects HTML5 to
hardware
Web
Browser/
Platform
Native API-based
UI
APIs
Kernel
(e.g. Android, iOS,
Win7, etc.)
Device
(phone, tablet,
desktop)
Web-based User
Experience/Web
Content
Web Engine/
Standard Device
APIs
Kernel
Device
Existing Platforms
(smartphones only) Firefox OS
Significantly
smaller stack:
Scales from
high-end
feature phones to
high-end
smartphones }

8. Create amazing HTML5 experiences
FIREFOX
MARKETPLACE
DEVELOPERS
Content owners maintain direct
connection to their audience
Enhanced discoverability
Easy payment & built-in
Carrier billing
Revenue sharing
CARRIERS
and apps

9. Developers can write Apps & Services for
ONE Platform – the Web
• Web Apps based on HTML5
• Developers will no longer
need to learn and develop
against platform-specific
native APIs
• Write Apps & Services for one
platform – the Web
8 Million
More developers
than any
other platform
450,000
+
100,000+

10. An affordable
smartphone: brings the
smartphone experience
at a feature phone
price point
CONNECT TO
THE WEB
Tons of apps
to choose from:
the Web is the
limit!
FOR USERS

11. Welcome to a new, open and powerful
mobile world!
More info:
•marketplace.mozilla.org
•developer.mozilla.org/Mobile
@Sumanth_Damarla