Reliance Jio to Launch Affordable Android Phones by December 2020: Report

Sep. 9, 2020

There’s apparently no further information on the issue at this point in time, but such a development has been coming for a while now. At its 43rd AGM in July, the companyannounced a tie-up with Googleto work on“affordable 5G smartphones”for India. Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of Jio’s parent company, Reliance Industries, even claimed that the telco can design entry-level 5G smartphones“at a fraction of their current cost”.

Towards that end, Google and Jio are partnering to build an Android-based smartphone operating system.“Though this partnership, we’re confident that we can accelerate the national mission of putting a smart device in the hands of every India”, Ambani said at the meeting last July. He also claimed that the tie-up will help the country ditch its legacy 2G networks and transition millions of 2G feature phone users to entry-level 4G/ 5G handsets.

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