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Mozilla to bring first phone to Europe this Summer: the Alcatel One Touch Fire on Deutsche Telecom

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Mozilla to bring first phone to Europe this Summer the Alcatel One Touch Fire on Deutsche Telecom" data-src-height="340" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/mozilla-lead-2.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> How long will Europe have to wait for its first taste of the Mozilla  smartphone OS? Not long at all, it seems. The Alcatel One Touch will  arrive first in Poland before venturing forth across the mainland at  dates that Mozilla isn't quite ready to reveal.<em> </em>We don't have a  ton of detail at this point, beyond what's in the press release after  the break, but Mozilla's press conference is just getting going so more  is surely still to come.</div><div class="open" dir="ltr" id="pr_box" style="text-align: left;"> <div id="pr_box_button">Hide Press Release</div><div id="pr_text">     <strong>Deutsche Telekom brings the first Mozilla smartphone to Europe</strong><br />     • Alcatel ONE TOUCH FIRE with Firefox OS will be available in Poland this summer<br />   • More countries to follow this year<br />   • DT and Mozilla in development partnership for more openness and competition<br />   between systems<br />      Deutsche Telekom is the first mobile communications services provider  to launch a smartphone with the new Mozilla operating system – Firefox  OS – on the European market: Sales of the Alcatel ONE TOUCH FIRE begin  in Poland this summer. Further countries in Eastern Europe will follow  in 2013. DT and Mozilla, along with other partners, have been working  together to develop an open-source standard for mobile operating systems  for a long time. The partnership aims to create more competition on the  market and more choice for customers. The Alcatel ONE TOUCH FIRE  represents the first milestone achievement.<br />     "Partnerships are  an important method in paving the way for innovations. We rely on open  platforms because we want to create freedom of choice on behalf of our  customers," said René Obermann, Chairman of the Board of Deutsche  Telekom at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. "That's why we  support Mozilla in developing an innovative and open standard for mobile  terminals. The launch of the first smartphone in Europe with the new  Firefox operating system is an important step on the way to more  competition between the different ecosystems."<br />     <br />    Deutsche Telekom has been involved in the development of the new Mozilla  operating system for smartphones since the project began in 2011. On  Mozilla Firefox OS, all apps and websites function within the browser  environment.<br />     Only applications that are written in the most  common Web languages – in particular HTML 5 – will be supported. These  apps can either be opened in the browser the same way as websites or  pre-installed like voice, text messaging and address book applications.  DT contributes not only the strategically relevant building blocks, such  as those for security, it also provides a network operator's  perspective on technical requirements and coordinates collaboration with  smartphone manufacturers. Beyond this, Deutsche Telekom supports  Mozilla's development community by organizing various events such as the  Mozilla Work Week in Berlin, a "hackathon" in Warsaw and App Days in  San Francisco.<br />     <br />   Deutsche Telekom is cooperating with  Mozilla to promote open standards and competition between ecosystems: A  developer-friendly operating system drives innovative applications and  makes better integration of individual services and platforms possible.  DT sees great potential in this new approach, as well as in that of  developing a good smartphone at a reasonable price. With the Alcatel ONE  TOUCH FIRE, which will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor  with a one- gigahertz CPU, Deutsche Telekom is launching an "affordable"  Mozilla smartphone on the European market. The device will be available  in Poland as of this summer – further countries will follow over the  course of 2013.<br /> </div></div></div>