 "Geeksphone Peak+ up for pre-order with €149 price tag, 1GB RAM and Firefox OS 1.1")
Morzilla had first spoken about collaborating with Spanish startup Geeksphone back in January for two phones which will run HTML-5-based Firefox OS. From what can now be seen, the collaboration has been pushed up a notch.
Geeksphone has now put up its first consumer-oriented device, the Peak+, up for pre-order at a price of €149 (Rs 11,580 approx) on the official company website. When compared to the other phones that the collaboration has put out, namely the Peak and the Keon, the Peak+ comes with double the RAM capacity, with 1GB of RAM being offered to users. It should be noted that both the Keon and the Peak saw developer versions being released, which essentially means that the phones were built keeping developers in mind. Peak+, however, is being released specifically for consumers. As earlier reported, both the Keon and Peak phones were sold out within hours of Geeksphone opening up the online store.
Geeksphone has put up the Peak+ Firefox OS-running up for pre-order
The company has also revealed other specifications of its latest offering. When you look at the display, the Peak+ will come with the same 4.3-inch qHD display as its siblings, along with a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor. Storage is taken care of with 4GB of internal memory, which can be expanded via a microSD slot. Optic-wise, the smartphone will come with an 8 megapixel primary camera as well as a 1800 mAh battery to power the show. This is similar to the battery seen in its other sibling, the Peak.
The major difference that can be seen here is that Peak+ will come with the latest version of the Firefox operating system, Firefox OS version 1.1. From what the company has to say, it seems like the latest version of the OS will come with lesser bugs, as well as 25GB of cloud storage being made available to users. The company has announced that the smartphone will be available at this price for a limited period of time, with delivery of the smartphone promised to be made by mid-September. The Mozilla-Geeksphone collaboration has been actively promoting its smartphone offerings for a while now. In the past, Mozilla, in order to get more developers onboard, came up with a campaign that saw the company handing out free Firefox OS Developer Preview device to any developer who managed to get an app on the Marketplace.
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