Jio Phone users may soon get these amazing Google features

Reliance Jio's feature phone, known as the JioPhone, can presently get Google services
reminiscent of Google Assistant, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Search.

This is as a result of the feature phone runs on KaiOS -- AN Operating System from a US-based company named KaiOS Technologies -- that is about to urge apps specifically developed for KaiOS users in partnership with Google.

The firm has received a $22 million Series A investment from internet search large 

Google "to bring the web to future generation of users."

KaiOS could be a web-based platform that uses open standards comparable to HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. It created its Asian nation foray with JioPhone in July 2017 and gained 15% a Day of the mobile OS market beating Apple iOS as the second wide employed in India, as per DeviceAtlas’ latest Mobile internet Intelligence Report.

“This funding can facilitate  fast-track development and international readying of KaiOS-enabled good feature phones, permitting us to attach the large population that also cannot access the web, particularly in rising markets,” said Sebastien Codeville, CEO of KaiOS Technologies.

Back in March, it was additionally reported that JioPhone can also shortly get support for widespread instant electronic messaging app WhatsApp as well. In an official journal post WaBetaInfo -- a Twitter account that tracks changes in WhatsApp’s beta builds -- wrote, “Important references regarding the event of a brand new native KaiOS app had been found within the latest WhatsApp beta for Windows Phone 2.18.38, indicating the presence of a brand new platform which will be connected to WhatsApp servers.”