Spice Fire One – Mi FX1 out for Rs 2229, is India’s 2nd Firefox OS phone

The Spice Fire One – Mi FX1 Firefox OS smartphone should technically be up for the taking at a price if Rs 2229, as announced previously. But online retailer Snapdeal, through which it was supposed to be made available initially, is still to add the device to its listings.

On the other hand, the Intex Cloud FX is already up for grabs as a Snapdeal exclusive for Rs 1999. Spice has yet to reveal all the details of the Fire One – Mi FX1, but we know you’re wondering about the difference in prices between the two handsets.

It starts with the fact that the Spice Fire One has a front camera of 1.3MP unlike its only other current Firefox OS rival in India. Owing to Mozilla’s partnership with Spectrum, we expect to see a processor from the latter inside the Mi – FX1, of course.

Spice Fire One Mi – FX1 main specifications list:

- Mozilla Firefox OS
- 3.5-inch 320 x 480p capacitive display
- 1GHz processor
- Dual SIM card slots
- 2MP rear camera, 1.3MP front lens
- 2G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth connectivity

As you can tell from the specs we’ve lined up above, the Spice phone is a very basic device which is almost totally based on the reference design dictated by Mozilla. A fun fact – just like the Cloud FX, even this handset is practically the first generation iPhone of 2014 if you compare the features.

We’ll give you the word as soon as the Spice Fire One Mi – FX1 hits availability status on Snapdeal. Meanwhile, here’s the link you can follow in order to buy the aforesaid Intex smartphone.

IRCTC brings ticket booking app to BlackBerry World

Available now on the BlackBerry World is the IRCTC ticketing app which will allow BB loyalists to ensure that their tickets are booked right through their smartphones. It’s only meant for BB 10 devices at the moment, and can be downloaded free of cost of course.

Describing it as an ‘easy and streamlined train booking service,’ Annie Mathew, who’s the director of the business development and alliance over at BlackBerry India has asserted that the company is ‘excited’ to bring the IRCTC app to BB World. ‘Increasing smartphone perpetration and the increasing dependence on mobile applications,’ is what has propelled the Indian body to release this product, according to her.

Apart from booking tickets, you can make use of the app for other important tasks as well, thus enhancing your travelling experience further. For instance, if you’ve booked a waitlisted ticket, your reservation status will be accessible from right inside the application, whereas the schedules and routes of trains will also be available.

And that’s not all, using the IRCTC app on your BlackBerry devices you can check the availability of tickets for a particular train or journey whenever you wish to. Other traits that form part of its offerings include the ability to cancel tickets, view stuff like booking history, recent history, favorites and the facility to add passengers as contacts.

Like we said, the IRCTC app is live now on the BlackBerry World storefront as a free download. The app is already available through the Windows Phone Store since late last year.