Open source smartphone innovation at Mozilla could be more fierce than at Apple, Google and Samsung, all of which have generated some very unique smartphones to obtain market share.

But a paradigm shift built by the open source community could create a vastly differently opearating model for smartphone manufacturers.

Most people recollect the name 'Firefox' and 'Mozilla' from the web browser. The same principles of open source will hold true of the smartphone too. The Firefox OS phone project is codenamed Boot to Gecko, aka B2G and is Linux based OS for tabs and smartphones and even for smart tvs.

Firefox OS will provide an entirely new and complete community enhanced system for smartphones. This would translate into using open standards such as HTML5, Javasript, and open web APIs that connects directly with the mobile device hardware as well as the app market.

This will create a vacuum for big majors like Apple, in particular, because a free open sourced iOS community will be a threat to proprietary OSs like Google Chrome OS, Apple iOS. They will also impact other open source systems like Android, currently the archrival to Apple, Ubuntu Touch and Jolla's Sailfish.

Though not everyone is happy about a $25 Firefox OS-based smartphone, this concept in smartphones clearly addresses the transition of consumers from a feature-rich phone to a open source, inexpensive smartphone. And Mozilla has the perfect answer.

Recently, at the Mobile World Congress, CEO of Mozilla, Gary Kovacs, said "the devices matter less than what they're able to run; apps make or break a mobile platform these days, not hardware, and the advantage is that users don't have to install an app to use it. Mozilla is making the most of this with the search functionality built into Firefox OS, a core feature of the platform."