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Firefox Mobile Lands in Early February

by Jordan Yerman | January 29, 2009 at 07:23 am

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Firefox Mobile (also called Fennec) is lined up for an early-February release for Windows Mobile. The first device to get the 'Fox will be the HTC Touch Pro. Aside from Windows Mobile, a Symbian version is in the works.

Here's the development wiki. I'm also adding the Fennec logo, which is impossibly cute.

The Touch Pro is an interesting choice for the first release; the decision, I'd wager, stemmed from the ease of porting—resizing interface elements and managing the GUI is much easier when you got the Pro's 480x640 display to work with, and dealing with performance issues, which were evident in the early Nokia N810 build as well as the emulator, wouldn't be so hard on this relatively beefy piece of hardware. Not to mention the fact that the QWERTY keyboard simplifies finger-friendly text input.

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joone4u

at 02:37 on January 30th, 2009

Some of the screen shots are old, there are new screen shots

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antsin3d

at 06:21 on January 30th, 2009

I took this product photo of my phone, the HTC Touch Pro. http://www.AnthonyFransella.com/

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mudricky

at 07:20 on January 30th, 2009

Only a matter of time I suppose before Firefox appeared on the mobile phone.

Jordan Yerman

at 07:26 on January 30th, 2009

Indeed... offhand, I'd think a major challenge would be managing the Fox's memory-leak issues, since mobiles have tiny amounts of RAM: Mozilla wouldn't want to get behind a mobile handset crash-o-matic, so the wait is worth it.