Spain's Telefonica is offering the world's first smartphone with the Firefox operating system to compete with devices running Google's Android and Apple's iOS

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Spain's Telefonica is offering the world's first smartphone with the Firefox operating system to compete with devices running Google's Android and Apple's iOS.

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The ZTE Open smartphone goes on sale in Spain this week for 69 euros (about $90) and will soon be available in several Latin American countries.

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The device is aimed at the youth market and at people who are new to smartphones, Telefonica's chief of product development, Carlos Domingo, said during a Madrid press conference where he was joined by executives from Mozilla and telephone-maker ZTE.

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Equipped with a 3.5-inch 480x320p touchscreen, the ZTE Open includes a 3.2MP camera, 256MB RAM and 512MB flash memory enhanced with a 4GB microSD card that comes as part of the package.

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The purchase price includes 30 euros ($39) of pay-as-you-go credit.

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The ZTE Open is fully integrated with Facebook and the Spain-based social network Tuenti and talks are on about incorporating the WhatsApp instant messaging service, Telefonica said.

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Mozilla executives said the ZTE Open is the "first chapter" in what they expect to be a long project, one that is already attracting interest from many other telecommunications companies.

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