In six years, Geeksphone became the first Spanish company to develop a smartphone, the first European organization to release an Android-based phone, and the first global brand to launch a Firefox OS mobile device.
Now it's ditching the handset industry...sort of. Geeksphone's multi OS platform will remain in the public domain, available to curious developers and current customers.
"[W]e have always tried to find the best balance concerning the values of open source and community development," co-founder Rodrigo Silva-Ramos said in a statement. "In short, everything that belongs to Geeksphone belongs to its users."
Established in 2009 by Silva-Ramos, Javier Agüera, and María Alzola, Geeksphone made a name for itself among smartphone users—albeit not as common a name as Apple or Samsung. It's those very competitors from which Geeksphone appears to be distancing itself.
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