We’re already well into the new year, but it’s not too late – or early – to anticipate some of the consumer tech releases that will be highly anticipated this year. Last month we learned that the Blackberry 10 won’t be available to U.S. consumers until sometime next month. Here are a few other products that techies are keeping an eye on in 2013. Mobile Operating System from Firefox Apple has one, Google does too; it’s about time Mozilla Firefox joined the Mobile Operating System group. Because entering such a compact market is not easy, the Firefox OS claims it will be cheaper than Android, that it will support rich content with HTML5, and tap into the hardware differently. Another piece of information that leaked is the OS’s ability to control the phone’s camera for slow motion recording or quick, successive shots. Surface Pro tablet from Microsoft Available since Feb. 9, Surface Pro runs on Intel I5 dual-core processor featuring the full Windows 8 Pro operating system. Microsoft has high hopes from it as it is the first device to bring a full operating system to the tablet format without compromising quality. Opinions on it are diverse, although its “snappier and more ‘performant’” (Mary Jo Foley for the ZDNet tech blog), its reliance on the power cable doesn’t help it in the run for the best tablet while its immutability puts it below any laptop. Price-wise it is not a friendly device: the Surface Pro starts at $899 ($200 more than a comparable iPad) and you’ll need to invest another $120 for the keyboard. This two-ways compromised device, as a tablet and as a laptop, makes me wonder, wouldn’t it be more comfortable to get the 64GB MacBook Air laptop at $999? Amazon Kindle...