In an interview with San Jose Mercury News, John Lilly, CEO, Mozilla, discloses that the first Alpha version of the Mozilla Firefox mobile will be available within the next few weeks. Alpha is the application release state before beta, and it is far from stable.

"We want to make sure that the Web on mobile is more like the Web than what the mobile industry offers today, which is closed, separate networks and not a very good information-getting experience for the user. The first thing is to bring Firefox to mobile devices. We're working on that, and we'll see some alphas in a few weeks," said Lilly.

Firefox Mobile is codenamed Fennec, as reportedly in an article published few months ago. Mozilla's goal is to keep the web browser an open source platform, but as Google steps in with their Chrome web browser on the Google Android platform, competition will be fierce, and Nokia will surely push as well from the Symbian Foundation side. In the end, it's the consumer that wins, unless it results in confusion.

[via LinuxInsider via Unwired View]