Over on OnSoftware blog, they sat down with Jay Sullivan, vice president of products at Mozilla Corporation to talk about the new version of Firefox Mobile.
Market IDC released a forecast on Friday \\ u200b \\ u200bi last week.
The interview took place in step with the release of Firefox Mobile Android recently.
You must forgive me for not writing about it all weekend - I've been sitting here at my computer looking at my screen much like a dog looking at something that confuses it, his head cocked to one side, remove eyes, unsure if this is a good thing or will only result in a trip to the vet to get neutered.
Jay Sullivan answered questions about the importance of Firefox goes mobile, and most importantly (to us) about the possibility of a WP7 version.
First, the simple novelty - 2011 is going to be an amazing year for smartphones.
Sullivan stated that Firefox Mobile is a major focus at the moment as mobile devices become more important and powerful.
The global market will see 49.2% growth with over 450 million of the devices shipping.
However, Windows 7 Phone currently not on the horizon, but it can bring Firefox Home to Microsoft's mobile platform.
Android market will be better than a full third of the industry of 39.5% with the hardware platform specific IOS seize 15.7%.
Jay Sullivan also mentioned other things in the interview as a drawback with a program like Firefox mobile coming: Get add-ons in the browser seems to be a big problem at the moment.
Windows 7 Phone, largely hailed as an also ran, will garner only 5.5% of the market.
You can read all about the additions situation and more feedback on the Firefox Mobile, but if you just want it (only) WP7 details, you have the exact quote below.
But this is where it gets interesting.
OnSoftware blog.
Let me say that again in case you were not paying attention - Windows phone is expected to be the number two mobile operating system in 2015 running at just under 21% of the world's smartphones.
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