We've heard quite a bit about Mozilla's Firefox OS in the context of smartphones, but rumors about the possibility of a Firefox tablet are also starting to heat up. The latest scuttlebutt says that the Mozilla Foundation has teamed up with multinational electronics manufacturer Foxconn for the production of a tablet device running Firefox OS.
Focus Taiwan cites Mozilla as saying it will announce a product running Firefox OS on June 3. This information was apparently relayed via a press invitation summoning members of the media to the unveiling of the aforementioned product. While Mozilla's invite reportedly said that the two companies would formally announce their partnership and reveal some new hardware, it didn't specify what the hardware was.
Talk of this device being a tablet is based on information from a Focus Taiwan source. The website writes that an industry insider says it is 'likely to be a new tablet.' While this isn't exactly a rock-solid prediction, it is unlikely that the Firefox OS will remain smartphone-only. June 3 is next Monday, so we don't have long to wait to find out.
