Doubletalk: Geeksphone Revolution Dual-OS Smartphone

Android or Firefox OS? The choice is yours

Open-source enthusiasts have hailed Mozilla’s Firefox smartphone operating system as a liberation from the power and intrusiveness of Google, Apple and Microsoft, who each demand your soul in return for getting the most out of their mobile OSes. The open-source crowd may have a point, though a larger number of commentators are of the opinion that Firefox OS is an answer to a question nobody’s really asking.

To date, Mozilla's cause in developed markets, such as the UK, hasn't been helped by the fact that all the Firefox OS handsets released by the likes of Alcatel and ZTE has been pegged to the extreme budget end of the market. That has been changed by the new Revolution mobe from Spanish handset maker Geeksphone – a mobe that can run Firefox OS or Android.

While this particular model doesn’t pose a threat to the likes of Samsung’s Galaxy S5 or the iPhone 5S, it at least promises to be a decent enough device to be of interest to anyone after a low-to-mid price smartphone...