India, March 18 -- As the feature market will cross one billion shipments in 2021 globally, Reliance Jio Phone will drive most of the feature market in India. Jio Phone is a smart feature phone which packs a chipset and an operating system that can support sophisticated smartphone-like features in a traditional feature phone form-factor.

The Jio Phone uses KaiOS as the operating system. KaiOS has also been expanding its reach in Africa. At the recently held Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, KaiOS announced partnerships with African operator Orange to launch KaiOS-powered smart feature phones priced at $20 across 16 countries in Africa and the Middle East.

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