Mozilla spills some details on its upcoming mobile OS

Its no secret that Mozilla has been working on a mobile OS since the summer, but now the developers have actually something real to talk about and not just plans.

The web based operating system will carry the name Boot 2 Gecko and you can see early sketches of parts of the interface. Currently, Mozilla devs are testing proprietary, single-vendor stacks with new APIs for camera, SMS and telephone capabilties and more being built.

As you can see from the draft above, the UI ideas so far are not drastic at all. One of the most interesting one is to hold-and-swipe an icon to start the app itself, like on HTC Sense 3.5 lockscreen. Another feature worth mentioning is the ability to have either physical or software buttons for variety of actions like for example a menu or back buttons.