Jio, Google will develop smarter and cheaper JioPhone with Android OS for India

At the Annual General Meet (AGM) 2020 today Reliance announced it is developing an Android-based operating system in partnership with Google. Mukesh Ambani announced that Jio Platforms and Google have entered into a commercial agreement to develop entry-level affordable smartphones with optimizations to the Android operating system and Play Store.

At the digital AGM Ambani said, “Google and Reliance Jio are partnering to build a value-engineered Android-based smartphone operating system. Through this partnership, we can accelerate the national mission of putting a smart device in the hands of every Indian.”

With this initiative, Ambani wants India to be “2G mukt” soon and offer affordable “4G or even 5G” smartphones running on Android-based operating system.