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Why Is Google Funding Feature Phone Operating System KaiOS? ]
NDTV reports Google has now invested as much as $20 million (approximately Rs. 138 crores) in KaiOS, the operating system that is a forked-version of Mozilla’s Firefox OS and is designed to bring smartphone-like smartness to feature phones. The investment that comes as a Series A funding is aimed to help the emerging platform reach newer devices. Alongside the investment, Google and Hong Kong-based KaiOS Technologies have jointly agreed to bring make the Google Assistant, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Search available to KaiOS users. HMD Global announced the arrival of Google apps on KaiOS-powered Nokia 8110 4G back in February, though that update is yet to debut. Notably, KaiOS is the operating system that is powering Reliance Jio’s Jio Phone that is already dominating the feature phone market not just in India but all across the globe, according to a Q1 report by Counterpoint Research.
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