Smartphone for Rs. 1999 with Firefox OS launched

      Intex launched the first Firefox OS smartphone in India, the Cloud FX, priced at Rs. 1,999. The company had announced in June, that it would launch the smartphone in August under Rs.2,000. The smartphone is now available via Snapdeal.  The Intex Cloud FX is India's cheapest smartphone as of now.

       

     The specs are not upto the mark, to get interested about this device for any smartphone lover. But for the price point at which this smartphone is starting, it stands ahead of the competition. For starters who is using a feature phone, the 3.5-inch screen is bigger than most feature phones for under Rs 2000. Most feature phones in this range have a 1.8 screen with a keyboard.

      A 2 megapixel camera, 128 MB RAM, a 3.5-inch screen, none of this sounds like a dream phone. And the truth is that it’s not trying to be a dream phone – at least not for users who have already bought their first Android or Windows phone. Firefox and Intex are targetting an audience that is buying their first smartphone.

    Price is the biggest attraction for this product. It’s not very complicated to use for someone upgrading from a feature phone to smartphone, Mozilla should be a phenomenal experience.

   The most important feature of the phone is the Firefox OS. Everything on the OS is web-based, and the apps are actually much smaller in size than they would be on Android. For instance, the Facebook app is around 400 KB on this. This handset also doesn’t support 3G but you can use 2G’s EDGE / GPRS networks.

The specifications of Intex Cloud FX are listed below:

1. Processor: 1GHz processor 

2. RAM: 128MB

3. Screen Size: 3.5 Inch

4. Screen Resolution: HVGA (320x480 pixel)

5. Battery Capacity: 1250 mAh

6. Operating System: Firefox OS

7. Primary Camera: 2-Megapixel

8. Secondary Camera: No Front Camera

9. Internal Memory: 46MB (External micro sd card support of up to 4GB only)

10. Phone Weight: 104 grams