Mozilla has been working on its own Mobile OS code named “Boot to Gecko”(B2G) for quite sometime. B2G is a browser based operating system built using the standard web technology stack. B2G is expected to run on low end smart phones as well. I am impressed with the idea of using standard web technologies for mobile app development (on the similar lines of Windows 8 HTML5 apps). Mozilla claims that they are working on web APIs to expose device capabilities such as telephony and other media devices. The project is still in its early stages. B2G was show running on Samsung Galaxy S2 at the Mobile World Congress last month. If you are interested in contributing to this project, check out the code from here. Neat instructions are provided to build the code and an Android based emulator is also included for testing. B2G uses the same low level building blocks (Linux kernel, libusb, etc) which Android uses. I played around with it last night and here are some screenshots of B2G. The user interface was a bit on the slower side in the emulator.
-- Varun
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