Nokia N9 Runs Firefox OS

It seems that Nokia N9 is an all-rounder when it comes to functionality. Although the smartphone was originally launched with MeeGo platform onboard, it looks like the N9 can run almost any other mobile operating system out there.

We’ve already reported that developers and coders already managed to make the N9 booth Google’s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, after the smartphone was spotted running Ice Cream Sandwich a while back.

Starting today, Nokia N9 unofficially supports Mozilla’s Firefox operating system for mobile devices. The company has just announced that Firefox OS is now available for testing on desktops, the more reasons for devs to put it on new mobile devices. Check out the video above and express your opinion on Mozilla’s upcoming Firefox OS and Nokia N9’s surprising versatility. via UnleashThePhones.

Very nice result of merging Mozilla Firefox OS project and Nitdroid N9.
Nitdroid provides Android HAL for N9, and B2G/FF OS actually ported already to android HAL.
As result we have N9 running B2G, wlan support, hdspa, data connection, SMS, and simple phone calls without sound. WebGL, HW acceleration works not super fast but acceptable
Here is the howto for building it manually:
https://github.com/romaxa/B2G/blob/master/README.n9
Thanks to Alexey Roslyakov for great nitdroid project and android HAL for N9.
Video credits to Oleg Romashin

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