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2013 has gone and the New Year has come with promises to deliver a lot of new innovations as well as creative concepts to come alive. In mobile industry 2013 saw the dominance of Google with their Android OS ruling the mobile OS s where as Apple with their iOS doing business as strong as ever and the Microsoft’s WP8 fighting to create a dent in the mobile OS battle. In the coming months the fight bound to get hotter and we will see companies elbowing each other for the title of no1 mobile OS. But some new players are gearing up to jump in the action and wow the world with their beauty and power. Here are the new OSs which have the potential to give a fight back to Google, Apple and Microsoft for the no1 mobile OS battle.

4. Tizen:








After failing to create an impact with Bada OS, Samsung again entered into the mobile OS race with their latest OS named Tizen. Tizen is an open source Linux based OS and Samsung has partnered with Intel to produce a replacement for Android. And many screen shots has been revealed and recently Samsung launched a camera running Tizen OS, but for now there is no Smartphone running this OS and in CES we may see Samsung launching first ever Tizen Smartphone. There are some speculations that Samsung will use Tizen on their devices rather than Android, but that’s definitely going to be a long story.

3. Zolla:

This is not a new OS if you remember the N9. It was fully gesture based with no buttons as well as onscreen controls. The OS was meego, The OS and the mobile created a huge buzz but Nokia’s deal with Microsoft made the OS abandoned. But the developers behind this cool OS determined to make the OS alive. So they separate themselves from Nokia and formed Zolla. Now recently they launched their first ever Smartphone running Zolla. The device as usual gesture based like N9 and to be frank there are a lot of gestures to remember that’s need getting used to. And the best part of Zolla is it supports Android apps compatibility. So the number of third party apps won’t be a problem.

2. Ubuntu Touch for mobile:

This is a familiar name in OS industry as it is a version of Linux. And it is already available for use in desktops as well as in Android devices (Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus) too. The latest 13.10 version is fully stable to give you the experience to understand the OS in a pleasant way. There are a lot of step-by-step guide for installing Ubuntu Touch OS on Android. Canonical the company behind this are said to be working to get an OEM to manufacture Smartphone’s with this OS. And in 2014 we may see a commercially released Smartphone with Ubuntu Touch OS on-board. The apps would be based on HTML5 and also the apps and also there will be apps with almost identical coding seen on Android apps.

1. Firefox OS:

Mozilla famous for their Firefox browser for Desktop and Android has shifted gears to build a HTML5 based Smartphone OS to deliver true open source OS experience. The OS is lightweight and will run HTML5 as well as CSS based apps. ZTE has already launched Smartphones with Firefox OS and even LG has confirmed to launch a Smartphone based on Firefox OS. Mozilla has stated their will be no restriction for developers to code their apps to launch in Mozilla’s app store and users will be easily able to customize their device according to their will. There are almost thousands app available for Firefox OS. And Mozilla is a great community for developers so expect a lot of support for this OS and apps being designed for the OS.


So, we hope to see a tough battle in coming years if not the months, and this will provide consumers a lot of choices as we know the more the merrier. So let’s sit back and enjoy the show. And please comment your valuable thoughts in the comment section.

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