LG Opts For A Brazilian, Lobs Out Low-Powered Firefox OS Mobe Fireweb

First gadget to launch with version 1.1 of Moz's phone code

South Korean electronics giant LG has joined the likes of Alcatel, Geeksphone, and ZTE by offering a handset based on the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox OS platform.

The LG Fireweb is not only the first such device from LG, but it's also the first phone from any company to ship with Firefox OS 1.1 preinstalled.

Mozilla released the new version of the OS earlier this month, but so far ZTE has yet to push out an update for its ZTE Open handsets running Firefox OS 1.0 and there's no telling when it will, if ever.

Hardware specs for the LG Fireweb are still sketchy, but from the sound of it, its features are comparable to those of earlier Firefox OS phones. It has an unspecified 1GHz processor by Qualcomm, a four-inch touchscreen at 480-by-320 resolution, a 5Mp camera, 2GB of onboard storage, and it supports 3G data networking.