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Firefox's new mobile OS in action on the Geeksphone Peak

2013-02-27
I'm Andrew Foyle for cnet and i'm here at Mobile World Congress checking out the geeksphone peek for top model of geeks phones to Firefox OS offerings a Firefox OS is the new software from Mozilla visually it looks a little like a cross between Android with the multiple home screens and iOS with the big grids of icons you'll see four icons at the bottom of the screen to always stay there giving quick access to the essentials of the Firefox web browser your phone contacts and your messaging it's quite a clean interface and seems fairly straightforward to use but we will have to spend a lot more time with it before we make a final verdict it's based on html5 rather than Java which is apparently easier on low-end hardware now have good news as this only has a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor that is bigger than the one gigahertz single core you'll find in the geeks funky are but in comparison to phones at the galaxy s3 or Sony Xperia said it's not really that much power visually it's not a bad-looking phone it's got a clean white design and it has a satisfying weight to it that's not unlike Nokia's Lumia phones has a 4.3 inch screen with a 960 x 540 pixel display which seems reasonably bright and sharp enough for the essentials on the back you'll find an 8 megapixel camera with a 2 megapixel camera and the front for video calling geeksphone haven't come through and pricing for the peak yet but we are expecting it to be somewhere around the two hundred dollar mark when it goes on sale in a few weeks from his website I'm Andrew Horrell for cnet and this is the geeks phone p
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