2014-03-30, 16:24
Spreadtrum Communications is a fabless SoC and reference phone design company,
they announced at MWC 2014 together with Mozilla their plans on releasing a 25$ phone based on their new SC6821 Cortex A5 chip powered by Firefox OS (codenamed Tarako).
the phone specs are:
128 MB RAM (FXOS uses about 92MB fully booted and will be further optimized to work with 128MB RAM configuration), 256 MB NAND flash, a 3.5″ HVGA touchscreen, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, FM radio
it is still unknown if these new chips will support WCDMA (the older SC6820 does not),
but Spreadtrum has unveiled that they are also testing Firefox OS on some of their other SoC designs.
this phone is targetet at emerging markets, where smartphones are still very much uncommon because of their high prices. Mozilla wants to enable people to be able to buy a cheap smartphone instead of a feature phone so they can partake the internet and be also connected.
since Spreadtrum SoC's have so far mostly been used in very cheap clone devices this might elevate also their position.
sources:
http://www.spreadtrum.com/en/news/press-...ssibility/
https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/02/f...-future-2/
they announced at MWC 2014 together with Mozilla their plans on releasing a 25$ phone based on their new SC6821 Cortex A5 chip powered by Firefox OS (codenamed Tarako).
the phone specs are:
128 MB RAM (FXOS uses about 92MB fully booted and will be further optimized to work with 128MB RAM configuration), 256 MB NAND flash, a 3.5″ HVGA touchscreen, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, FM radio
it is still unknown if these new chips will support WCDMA (the older SC6820 does not),
but Spreadtrum has unveiled that they are also testing Firefox OS on some of their other SoC designs.
this phone is targetet at emerging markets, where smartphones are still very much uncommon because of their high prices. Mozilla wants to enable people to be able to buy a cheap smartphone instead of a feature phone so they can partake the internet and be also connected.
since Spreadtrum SoC's have so far mostly been used in very cheap clone devices this might elevate also their position.
sources:
http://www.spreadtrum.com/en/news/press-...ssibility/
https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/02/f...-future-2/