KaiOS Explained :-What is KaiOS?



KaiOS which is popularly found on the Jio Phone in India & on many other devices around the world is now a popular Operating system. So in this article let's understand more about KaiOS.

What is KaiOS?
KaiOS is a mobile operating System based on Linux owned by KaiOS Technologies which is a US-based company. It was forked out of B2G(Boot to Gecko) an open source community-driven successor of the discontinued Firefox OS.

Features of KaiOS
The main purpose of KaiOS is to provide with 4G LTE, GPS & WIFI capabilities to the non-touch feature phones.KaiOS supports HTML5 based Apps. The operating system is based on the Monolithic kernel of Linux. The Operating system provides for an optimized interface, less memory, and energy consumption to feature phones. It also features over the air updates to the operating system. The operating the system is comparatively very lightweight on hardware resources as it can run on devices with just 256MB of Memory.


The OS has it's dedicated app store called KaiStore.Many popular services like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Youtube, Maps, Google Assistant, etc have already launched their apps for the KaiOS.

Investments in KaiOS
In 2018 Google invested $22 million in the Operating System. While Indian Telecom Gaint Reliance Jio invested around $7 million in cash to pick up a 16% stake in the company. 

Market Share
In the market share study results announced in May 2018, KaiOS beat Apple's iOS for second place in India.KaiOS is expected to have around 25 million active devices. It constitutes currently 3% of the market share in India as compared to 2.16% of the IOS.

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