Reuters: Technology News: ZTE, Mozilla aim to roll out mobile operating system in coming months

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ZTE, Mozilla aim to roll out mobile operating system in coming months Sep 19th 2012, 08:53 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News LG unveils new premium phone with voice-activated power camera Tue, Sep 18 2012 Apple sells 2 million new phones, shares touch $700 Mon, Sep 17 2012 Apple's iPhone 5 bigger, faster but lacks "wow" Thu, Sep 13 2012 EU says Microsoft pledged to meet antitrust requests on browsers Sat, Sep 8 2012 Nokia to start selling make-or-break smartphone in November Fri, Sep 7 2012 Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, April 17, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Tyrone Siu HONG KONG | Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:53am EDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ZTE Corp, the world's fourth largest mobile phone handset vendor, is cooperating with Mozilla, maker of web browser Firefox, to introduce a new mobile operating system later this year or early next year, a ZTE spokesman said on Wednesday. The move is part of ZTE's plan to diversify away from Google Inc's Android and Microsoft Corp's Windows into other operating systems. Smartphone market leader Apple Inc is embroiled in legal disputes with some handset makers running Android. "We are trying to increase our efforts in coming up with our own operating system, while introducing products based on Android," said ZTE spokesman David Dai Shu. "It's all part of our wider plans to create a better balance of products using various operating systems. We won't just rely on Android or Windows." ZTE will roll out the operating system with Mozilla over the next few months, and plans to unveil a product for use in mobiles either at the same time or a little later, Dai said. The Shenzhen-based company is also looking into Web-based operating systems, but has no immediate plans to support those developed by Chinese Internet firms such as Baidu Inc and Alibaba, he said. The bulk of ZTE's phones run on Android, while its 'Tania' series uses Windows. "We are working with a regional telecom carrier outside of China to unveil products based on our own operating system," Dai said, but declined to mention any names. In July, Mozilla said mobile network operators Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, Smart, Telecom Italia, Telenor and Etisalat were backing the Firefox platform. (Reporting by Lee Chyen Yee; Editing by Daniel Magnowski) Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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