2 March 2014 Wireless Equipment Signals to Noise (S2N) ever (strictly Android open source code with no integration into Google), but the strategic questions of this maneuver overshadowed any attributes that the device may have had. What was most worrisome, was that a cursory look around hall 7, where many of the Chinese-based OEMs resided, revealed smartphones that were at least as feature rich as any the major OEM design houses were carrying. Many even had wearables to go alongside them. All of this points to a market that is continually being commoditized, at least on the hardware side - a suggestion that has been made years before, but a theme that is now so palpable at the show it is hard to ignore. The good news for many across the globe is that smartphones are only getting cheaper. Firefox took this one step further, introducing a S25 smartphone at the show. The phone runs on a 1 Ghz application processor and has a Spreadtrum Edge baseband and WiFi connectivity. We were able to demo the device, which we felt was a large improvement on the year before, when they had the OS (which is based on HTML-5) running on a more expensive 800 mhz processor. Overall, we feel as though Firefox is moving in the right direction with this OS, towards the masses with the hope to migrate these initial customers to more expensive devices in the future. Just in terms of buzz, the Firefox booth was constantly packed with people and had moved from the hinterlands of hall 8 up to hall 3, where many of the bigger companies were located. It appears the thirst for anything non-Android or non-iOS is significant, and as long as Firefox continues to refine its solution, and target the low-end, we feel there should be an encouraging reception there. Ubuntu was also there as an alternative to Android or iOS. Last year, the company appeared to have the most complete OS offering of any of the three main alternatives - Tizen being the third. During the past year, the co