Google is looking to partner with Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited India to make a $50 worth smartphone for rural areas to access gadgets, google is already in the smart phone industry with its Pixel series is The new phone may be the new cheapest smartphone you’ll see, the new smart phone would challenge to Chinese phone manufactured
CNN says, Google announced its partnership with one of the hottest Indian tech companies called Jio Platforms. Google invested an amount of $4.5 billion to the Indian firm. They wanted to create the cheapest (or one of the cheapest) smartphone in the world– with an amount of only $50 below.
The lower price smart phone targets to help rural areas in the country that doesn’t yet own a cellphone. According to estimate, there are 500 million people in India that don’t own any gadgets, due to poverty and lack of facilities to reach signal beyond the cities.
This plan appeared to be a great idea to allow people to reach technology anywhere they are. Hence this will be an challenging situation for chines brands
China is market leader in cheapest smartphone category in the world. Almost more than half of the world supports Chinese phone brands. Google- Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited partnership may also give tough time to China-cheapest phone market place
