From DailyTech: In a market packed with Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android, Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) iOS, and Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows Phone is there room for a fourth major smartphone operating system? The Mozilla Foundation thinks so, and it's pursuing an aggressive path of development for its Firefox OS, which like Android is based on a Linux kernel.
On Wednesday Mozilla announced the availability of Firefox OS 1.1, a major operating system upgrade, just three months after its first high-profile Firefox smartphone shipped.
The features in the new release include:
- Push notifications
- MMS
- Save content from browser
- Auto-correct when typing with keyboard.
- Music search
- Contact improvements
- Smooth scrolling
Overall, these improvements are nothing revolutionary, but they do take Firefox OS much closer to being a full-featured modern operating system like iOS, Android, or Windows Phone. As Windows Phone's development path showed, it's a struggle to both establish a market presence and create full-featured devices; hence at times this kind of iterative approach is required.
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