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Google, Jio smartphone collaboration has been postponed

The JioPhone Next, a cell phone being mutually evolved by Google and Indian tech monster Jio Platforms, has missed its arranged September 10th launch date, the organizations have declared. The deferral is expected to give the two organizations more opportunity to refine the gadget, and to explore issues made by the global semiconductor shortage.

The JioPhone Next is currently booked for wide delivery around Diwali, which will happen toward the beginning of November. The telephone is as of now in testing with few clients.

The telephone is designed to be a moderate 4G smartphone to help the around 300 million Indian clients presently on 2G networks upgrade to 4G. At the point when it declared the telephone in June, Jio’s parent organization Reliance said it would incorporate voice assistant, augmented reality, and translation features. This is incorporate into an “optimized operating system based on Android,” which seems to bear some connection to Android Go, if XDA Developers is to be accepted.

Work on the telephone was first reported in 2020, when Google declared a $4.5 million investment in Jio. As a component of the joint effort, Reliance declared recently that it’s moving its retail business onto Google’s cloud infrastructure.