 This is Dan Seifer with The Verge and we're here in Barcelona, Spain checking out some of the latest things that Mozilla is announcing for its Firefox OS platform. This particular device is a new ZTE smartphone that's going to be released very shortly within the next month or so to a variety of emerging markets across the world. What's most significant about this phone compared to the earlier Firefox devices is it's got a much better quality display, it's a higher resolution, it's much faster than the earlier devices but it's still very much an entry level device. It's going to be priced around the entry level, it's going to be marketed to the first smartphone customer and there's a good chance that we're not going to see this in developed markets such as the US or the UK. The other thing that we're looking at here is the latest version of Firefox OS. This happens to be version 1.3. It's got a new launcher on here, it's powered by the same technology as what powers Everything Me which is an Android launcher that's been around for a while. So it's able to do intelligent searches that search both the phone and the web to give you access to shortcuts and various things depending on the context that you add to the search. A couple of the other things that they are adding to this is new ways to multitask between various apps. Mozilla doesn't have it in this version yet but the next version will allow you to multitask by swiping across the screen to other open apps. But right now you can hold down the home button and then access your open apps in sort of a card-like view. Overall the entire OS just feels much more complete and faster than we've seen before especially compared to the first Firefox OS devices that were announced here in Barcelona last year. The lag is not nearly as great as it was on earlier devices. You're able to open apps and change apps much quicker than before. It really is a much better experience even though it is still considered an entry level device. We should see more from Firefox and Mozilla over the course of this year but we can expect to see devices such as the CTE and others from Huawei and Alcatel hitting markets next month.
 This is Dan Seifer with The Verge and we're here in Barcelona, Spain checking out some
 of the latest things that Mozilla is announcing for its Firefox OS platform.
 This particular device is a new ZTE smartphone that's going to be released very shortly within
 the next month or so to a variety of emerging markets across the world.
 What's most significant about this phone compared to the earlier Firefox devices is it's got
 a much better quality display, it's a higher resolution, it's much faster than the earlier
 devices but it's still very much an entry level device.
 It's going to be priced around the entry level, it's going to be marketed to the first smartphone
 customer and there's a good chance that we're not going to see this in developed markets
 such as the US or the UK.
 The other thing that we're looking at here is the latest version of Firefox OS.
 This happens to be version 1.3.
 It's got a new launcher on here, it's powered by the same technology as what powers Everything
 Me which is an Android launcher that's been around for a while.
 So it's able to do intelligent searches that search both the phone and the web to give
 you access to shortcuts and various things depending on the context that you add to the
 search.
 A couple of the other things that they are adding to this is new ways to multitask between
 various apps.
 Mozilla doesn't have it in this version yet but the next version will allow you to multitask
 by swiping across the screen to other open apps.
 But right now you can hold down the home button and then access your open apps in sort of
 a card-like view.
 Overall the entire OS just feels much more complete and faster than we've seen before
 especially compared to the first Firefox OS devices that were announced here in Barcelona
 last year.
 The lag is not nearly as great as it was on earlier devices.
 You're able to open apps and change apps much quicker than before.
 It really is a much better experience even though it is still considered an entry level
 device.
 We should see more from Firefox and Mozilla over the course of this year but we can expect
 to see devices such as the CTE and others from Huawei and Alcatel hitting markets next
 month.