The chairman of Jio, India’s largest operator, has announced a new ultra-cheap Android smartphone, the JioPhone Next. While the exact terminal details will be officially released in September, the teaser has a powerful point: It promises to be the cheapest Android mobile in the world by far.
The mobile was jointly developed between Google and Jio, integrating an “extremely optimized” version of Android which seems to be based on Android Go. It is a 4G mobile, which will have basic functions like a voice assistant, a translator or a camera with augmented reality filters, at a price which, although it was not revealed, should be very, very low.
The cheapest Android mobile in the world
Mukesh D Ambani, president of Reliance of which Jio is a subsidiary, announced the new terminal at a general conference at the company he chairs. During it, he presented several programs in development, including the ultra cheap mobile JioPhone Next.
It will be the third phone in the house, which already includes the JioPhone and JioPhone 2, both based on the simple KaiOS mobile operating system. The third, the JioPhone Next will however be based on an extremely modified version of Android, jointly created by Google and Jio especially for the said device. In the pictures of the mobile we can see that some apps are versions of Android Go, so it is quite possible that it uses Android Go as a base.
From the terminal, we don’t have its specifications, although we do have some of its capabilities. It will include voice assistant, support for text to talk, translator, camera with augmented reality filter support a lot more “. It will have Google Play and in the different screenshots we can see apps like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps or Gmail. Sundar Pichai added the information that it will support updates. Android update.
According to Mukesh D Ambani, it will be by far the cheapest Android mobile in the world, although he hasn’t revealed exactly what it will cost. On Amazon, there are questionable quality 4G Android phones for less than $ 30, so it would have to cost that or less to meet the principle of being by far the cheapest.
In the few photos of the terminal that were shared during the event, it is not possible to anticipate much about its specifications, other than that it has a few generous frames on your screen, simple cameras and possibly no biometric security. Being ultra cheap, its specs should be very low.
We will know more on September 20, and it is that the ultra-cheap JioPhone Next will go on sale first in India and later in the rest of the world. Of course, it remains to be seen where in the rest of the world it will arrive, in addition to the rest of the specs.
Via | TechCrunch
