When Google purchased a $4.5 billion stake in Jio last year in hopes of expanding its presence in India, the companies revealed that they're planning to develop low-cost phones together.

The phone quickly reminded me of Nokia’s Asha series feature phones from the mid-2010s. Apart from the blue color variant seen here in the pictures, Jio also offers the JioPhone Next in black.

Announced today at Reliance Industries’ (Jio’s parent company) annual meeting, the Jio Phone Next will be a joint project between Jio and Google (who invested $4.5 billion in Jio last year) to ...

Reliance Jio's plan to launch a 4G phone at a market-low price of $12 to capture the broadly untapped entry-level 2G market in India will disrupt the bottom of the consumer pyramid, but not spark ...

In July Jio launched a device designed to entice this voice-only cohort to get online. Priced at just 999 rupees ($12), “Jio Bharat” phones resemble pre-smartphone handsets, with a keypad and ...