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Google Invests $22 Million in the OS Powering Nokia Feature Phones

posted by mrpg on Friday June 29 2018, @04:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the experiments-are-good dept.

takyon writes:

Google invests $22 million in the OS powering Nokia feature phones

Google is investing $22 million into KaiOS, the feature phone operating system that has risen from the ashes of Mozilla's Firefox OS. While Google rules the smartphone world with Android, KaiOS is slowly emerging as a popular choice for feature phones, particularly in emerging markets. KaiOS started last year as a forked version of Firefox OS, and the operating system ships on some Nokia-branded feature phones like the Nokia 8110. Devices from TCL and Micromax are also powered by KaiOS.

Google's investment might seem odd given its Android dominance, and its efforts with Android Go, but it's clearly strategic. "Google and KaiOS have also agreed to work together to make the Google Assistant, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Search available to KaiOS users," says KaiOS CEO Sebastien Codeville.

I always liked the ideas behind Firefox OS, but the promised $10 to $25 smartphone never materialized. Would you use a KaiOS phone?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @07:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @07:27AM (#700155)

    Can i have the Windows Linux phone 11 please?