Just when you thought we did not need another mobile OS, Mozilla is gearing up with their Boot to Gecko (B2G) mobile platform.
B2G aims to clean up mobile fragmentation with an open-sourced standards-based web technologies OS. It appears to be in the beginning stages, but they plan on publishing source code as its developed so devs can add to it and help them out.
What makes B2G interesting is that Mozilla is building it by taking the Android code that lets it work on hardware, and adding a UI pulled from Firefox’s cross-platform layout engine Gecko. This appears to be like any other Android phone with HTC Sense or Samsung Touchwiz, but Mozilla said they won’t be adopting the Java language used in Android, nor will they support native code programming.
Last September, Mozilla showed of a prototype cellphone dubbed the Seabird. It has an 8MP camera, two pico-projectors, and inductive wireless charging. We could see something like this in the near future with B2G. You have to check out the video after the break because this could be the coolest phone on Earth someday.
[via gizmodo]