In Pictures: New Firefox mobile OS

Mozilla officially jumped into the crowded mobile OS field at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the company demonstrated an early version of Firefox OS, which is being developed under the Boot to Gecko project.

6. Partner support

Mozilla intends to sign up partners to support Firefox OS on several fronts representing software, hardware and phone carriers. Thus far, Telefónica of Spain and Mozilla partnered to launch the Open Web Device platform, and Deutsche Telekom of Germany will lend its own employees for development support. Mozilla's developers are working with Qualcomm to write Firefox OS around that company's mobile processors. Sprint is on board to be the first U.S. carrier to support Firefox OS phones on its network. One interesting partner is Adobe -- although known for Flash, the company in recent years has moved toward supporting HTML5 development in the mobile device sector.

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