After giving the nearly indispensable Firefox Web browser to the world, Mozilla is now building an open Web operating system. Its plans received a major boost with a Spanish broadband and telecom provider, Telefonia Digital, which revealed its plans to offer phones with Mozilla's upcoming software.
Telefonica hinted at its plans to release smartphones this year that are based on the Open Web Devices platform, a Web-based OS that makes use of Mozilla's HTML5-based Boot2Gecko project, according to Memeburn report. Majority of the handsets these days are equipped with Android or iOS that impose restrictions affecting manufacturers and users. 
The company has also posted a video of a hardware prototype running its software. However, it has not disclosed which hardware manufacturer will be shipping Open Web Devices software.
On the chipset front, Open Web Devices hardware is expected to rely on a chipset from Qualcomm that currently produces a large number of chips for Android phones.
The project has also got the endorsement of Adobe, which has revised its mobile strategy to focus on HTML5 following its pulling the plug from Flash for mobile devices. One of the major goals of bringing forward the Open Web Devices platform is to make smartphones more affordable. If Open Web Devices becomes popular then it will be quite a bounce-back for Mozilla.
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