Indian tech large Jio Platforms has collaborated with Google on a brand new inexpensive smartphone known as the JioCellphone Next, Jio’s mother or father firm Reliance introduced at present. The Next is aimed toward serving to the roughly 300 million customers in India who’re at present on 2G networks improve to 4G, TechCrunch reports. It shall be launched in India on September tenth, earlier than coming to different markets at a later date.

Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani mentioned the JioCellphone Next could be an “ultra-affordable 4G smartphone,” however didn’t reveal precise pricing or full specs for the machine. However, the corporate did say it can embody voice assistant help, translation options, and a digicam with help for augmented actuality. The telephone is working on an optimized model of Android OS designed particularly for the machine, Google says, although XDA Developers has spotted that it seems to be utilizing the Go-version of the Google Camera app, which signifies it shares some similarities with Google’s low-powered Android Go working system.

Google and Jio first introduced they have been working collectively on an inexpensive smartphone final yr, when Google invested $4.5 million in Jio Platforms. Today, Google says its work with the corporate can also be increasing due to a brand new partnership that may see Jio Platforms mother or father firm Reliance make use of Google’s Cloud platform, shifting its core retail enterprise onto Google’s infrastructure.

The JioCellphone Next is a part of Google’s multi-year try and convey Android and its companies to lower-powered, extra inexpensive gadgets. It introduced its Android One initiative in 2014, and adopted this up with Android Go three years later in 2017. It’s additionally invested in KaiOS, an working system designed for function telephones, as a way to make its companies out there on much more fundamental gadgets. As increasingly of the creating world comes on-line, Google is making an enormous effort to make sure it’s there to satisfy them.