Gadgetory

okay well this is seamus burn for cnet from mobile world congress 2014 here in Barcelona and we're looking at the Alcatel OneTouch fire range these are the firefox operating system phones and this year alcatel is stepping up its partnership with Mozilla to try to elevate these phones from being low end entry-level ideas to something that might start to challenge in the mid tier of phones the fire see is the closest to last year's entry level fire device there's a couple of small upgrades a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor but it's still a half vga screen it's still hspa+ this year and it's basically very similar to last year's phone in design as well design-wise the fire e and s run close to the alcatel one touch idol series of devices basically being variants on that range the e has a qHD display five point touch dual-core 1.2 gigahertz processor 512 megs of ram Bluetooth 4.0 a 5 megapixel camera and a VGA front camera there's also four gigs of internal storage with microSD support we haven't been able to see working models of the fire s or the fire 7 tablet just yet but the fire S is probably a really exciting option that will be a genuine mid-tier device with LTE NFC a quad core processor 8 megapixel camera this is definitely going to be something very interesting for fans of Firefox OS to see just how far they can start to push things now this is a mock-up version of the fire 7 tablet and this is going to be a quarter HD display device so a very low-end tablet which will actually be selling for just 79 euros so this tablet has a dual-core 1.2 gigahertz processor and a 2-megapixel rear display it's low spec but then with a 79 euro price tag it's definitely not shooting for the moon either overall alcatel says they don't see Firefox OS as a competitor to Android anytime soon but they do want to keep exploring it to see what the street so this particular platform might be over the long run so for any html5 fans out there I think the fire s is definitely gonna be one of those devices worth checking out in order to actually give this a test and really see what it might be capable of down the track the Alcatel OneTouch fire see will be available in early q2 the fire II will be available lately q2 and the S will be available in the back half of the year the pricing will be the C comes in at 59 euro or about 80 US dollars the e will be 139 euro or around 190 US dollars the S will be 169 you or around two hundred thirty dollars and the seven the fire 7 tablet will be 79 euro which is around 110 US dollars so this has been the alcatel one touch fire series of devices I'm Sheamus burn for Cena here at mobile world congress 2014 in barcelona