JioPhone Next: The numbers that matter for Reliance and Google

Reliance Jio announced its new feature phone JioPhoneNext recently. The 4G feature phone announced at the parent company Reliance’s 47th annual general meeting aims to give users an opportunity to participate in India’s mobile digital economy.

Seems the company that launched its first feature phone, JioPhone, in 2017 realised that the KaiOS-powered device is not enough to bridge the digital divide in the country. Jio has now partnered with Google to offer a smartphone running on stripped-down version of Android that gives users access to Google Play Store.

The JioPhone Next is likely to come with basic hardware features that may not run as efficiently on the current-generation Android operating system.