Reliance Jio working with Google on ‘ultra affordable’ 5G smartphone: Ambani

During the Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2022 edition, Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani announced that the company’s Jio team is working with Google on a new 5G smartphone.

Last year, Reliance Jio launched the JioPhone 4G co-developed by Google. It comes with bare minimum hardware and runs customised Android-based Pragati OS. The USP of the phone was Google’s camera app, language translation, and more.

Now, the Ambani-led company again collaborating with the search engine giant to develop an ultra-affordable 5G Android phone.

‘We are working with Google to develop an ultra-affordable 5G smartphone for India. And, to leverage the advantage of its capabilities of Google Cloud to offer Jio’s 5G private stack, and other 5G-enabled solutions to both domestic and global users at scale,” Mukesh Ambani said.