Reliance India Limited Chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced Google-Jio Smartphone in partnership with Google — an affordable smartphone built for India. The smartphone will be available in India in September, Mukesh Ambani announced. Announcing the new smartphone, Mukesh Ambani said, Jio has democratised digital connection in India being the most affordable 4G, but still, 300 million users are still using 2G. The new smartphone will make ‘Bharat’ ‘2G Mukt’.
“It is a fully featured smartphone, supporting the entire suite of applications from both Google and Jio, as well as the Android Play Store through which users will have access to the entire universe of Android Apps. It is powered by an extremely optimised version of the Android Operating System, that has been jointly developed by JIO and Google, especially for the Indian market. While being ultra-affordable, JioPhone Next is packed with cutting-edge features like the voice assistant, automatic read-aloud of screen text, language translation, smart camera with augmented reality filters and much more,” Mukesh Ambani announced.
Taking the Jio-Google collaboration to the next level, Jio will now use Google cloud, Mukesh Ambani and Google’s Sudar Pichai jointly announced at RIL’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday.
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