Google and Jio’s smartphone collaboration has been delayed

The JioCellphone Next, a smartphone being collectively developed by Google and Indian tech large Jio Platforms, has missed its deliberate September tenth launch date, the companies have announced. The delay is required to offer each firms extra time to refine the gadget, and to navigate issues created by the worldwide semiconductor scarcity. The JioCellphone Next is now scheduled for vast launch round Diwali, which is able to happen in early November. The cellphone is at the moment in testing with a small variety of customers.

The cellphone is designed to be an inexpensive 4G smartphone to assist the roughly 300 million Indian customers at the moment on 2G networks improve to 4G. When it introduced the cellphone in June, Jio’s guardian firm Reliance stated it might embrace voice assistant, augmented actuality, and translation options. All that is construct into an “optimized operating system based on Android,” which seems to bear some relation to Android Go, if XDA Developers is to be believed.

Work on the cellphone was first introduced in 2020, when Google introduced a $4.5 million funding in Jio. As a part of the collaboration, Reliance introduced earlier this yr that it’s shifting its retail enterprise onto Google’s cloud infrastructure.