Few months earlier of the current running year Mozilla launched Firefox OS-based Peak and Keon
smartphones. Later Chinese handset making company ZTE, which is presently the 3rd largest smartphone supplier of the United States, carried the gratitude of the Firefox OS
forward by installing it in its own open model at the event of Mobile World
Congress 2013.
Eventually leading smartphone making companies like Huawei,
Sony and LG have already showcased that they will be eying at developing smartphones
that will run on the Firefox OS platform. Now the news of the hour is that
Indian mobile handset making company Lava
has recently joined the list, as it has also admitted that the company is now
finalizing the plan of actions to introduce Firefox OS-based smartphones in
India.
Mr. Hari Om Rai, who is the current Director and co-founder of
Lava International Limited, confirmed that his company was working on a key
project top come up with Firefox OS-based smartphones. He added that the
company is keen to keep the price of such smartphones under Rs. 3,000. There
was a buzz going on the market for past few days that Lava might be launching
smartphones based on a brand new platform, and now it is quite official.
However, Mr. Rai did not
reveal any other information on the project while talking to a leading
newspaper agency. He had not even provided any details about the time period by
when this smartphones will be starting its journey towards the retailers of the
Indian mobile market. This means the specifications of the phones are still to
be unfolded.
It has to be mentioned here
that currently Lava is only offering such smartphones and tablets that run on
Android operating system. The company recently introduced a new android-based
smartphone ‘Iris 504Q’ in India with
a price tag of Rs. 13,499. This new smartphone has some unique stand-alone
features like gesture control and a few others.
Lava had done some good
businesses over past few months mainly because the trust factor it manages to
build in the hearts of a large chunk of Indian users. Eventually the company
managed to record a huge sale numbers of more than 9 lakh Lava devices in the
month of May only. Now the company’s confidence has boosted up, and now it is
eying sales of more than 20 lakh units (2 million) per month by the end of
2013.
Lava is now a big name in
the Indian tablet market too, and the company has presently started to provide
especial care to this space. The company is working hard on it, as it has
understood the potentiality of this space in the current market in India
especially for the youth and their educational purposes.
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