One of them, a 4 inch display toting model, is considered which would more than likely make it the ZTE Open C. We’ve been tracking the OS for a while now and even had the chance to chat to Mozilla’s Director of Product for Firefox OS Chris Lee last year about why Firefox OS is a great fit for African smartphones.Īccording to our sources, ZTE is currently in talks with MTN about bringing in its Firefox smartphones with two models currently on the table for the yellow network to consider. It’s no surprise then that ZTE is looking for a foothold in the South African smartphone market however, unlike most other smartphone manufacturers, ZTE will be leading its charge into South Africa using the nascent Firefox smartphone operating system.įirefox OS comes from Mozilla, the same folks responsible for the Firefox internet browser, and it’s based on the Linux kernel just as its contemporaries in Google’s Android and Samsung’s Tizen.
According to the latest figures from Gartner, ZTE accounted for 5% of the world’s smartphone shipments in the three Autumn months last year as well as 6% of the highly lucrative American market in 2013. Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE won’t be a well known name to most South African consumers, but to the rest of the world, ZTE is fast emerging as one of the major players in the smartphone industry.
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