NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

First, the basics: truly affordable smartphones. Mozilla, the makers of the popular Firefox browser and the forthcoming Firefox operating system for phones, this morning announced that it worked with partners to create designs that could be used in smartphone that costs as little as $25. Nokia released a touchscreen phone for €45 ($61). A Chinese phone-maker was advertising a $35 Android phone.