Google Voice Assistant witnessed 6-fold growth with JioPhones

Google on December 5 had announced to bring its Voice Assistant on Reliance JioPhone to empower feature phone users in the country.

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In an interesting development, Reliance Jio has now announced that Google Voice Assistant that was made available in Reliance JioPhones in December 2017, has seen a six-fold growth in its usage. Google on December 5 had announced to bring its Voice Assistant on Reliance JioPhone to empower feature phone users in the country. This was the first time that Voice Assistant was made available in any feature phone.

 
Google Voice Assistant witnessed 6-fold growth with JioPhones

"Since we launched the Google Assistant on the first feature phone in December, the Reliance JioPhones, usage of the Assistant in India has grown six times over the past four weeks," Caesar Sengupta, Vice President, Next Billion Users Team at Google, said in a blog post.

With Google Assistant, the next billion users are fast adopting cutting-edge technology. "This isn't just due to many semi-literate or illiterate users, but also the fact that typing is difficult for people who never grew up with a computer keyboard," he mentioned.

There are estimates that web content is more than 50 percent English. Hindi, the fourth language in terms of global speakers, is not even in the top 30 languages for web content.

"In countries like India, the generation coming online now is more comfortable in their native language than in English, and so language can be a big blocker to expanding Internet access," he stated.

However, going forward, Google believes the demand for local content will reverse the language imbalance, leading to an Internet more inclusive of the entire world's language diversity. According to Sengupta, the next billion users will be the first to truly embrace ubiquitous computing, expecting apps to work in a natural way rather than having to learn all the artificial commands that we did on PCs.

As far as countries are concerned, the future of the Internet will likely be in the hands of the next billion users - the latest generation of users in places like Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria.

"A mobile-only mindset, an instinct for ubiquitous computing and a demand for localized content are three key things that are driving next billion users to connect to the Internet," the Google executive reiterated.

Today, more than three billion people -- more than half of them in Asia -- own smartphones. Surprisingly the reports note that most of the next billion users will have never used a PC or they may never use one. "They don't think of the Internet as something you access with a mouse and a keyboard. A computer is a smartphone, and it also doubles up as a television, a wallet, a classroom and a portal for government services," Sengupta noted.

If you are interested in the device then here is what it has to offer.

Display, Processor, RAM and Storage

Display, Processor, RAM and Storage

JioPhone comes with a 2.40-inch display with a resolution of 240 pixels by 320 pixels. The device is powered by 1.2GHz dual-core SPRD 9820A/QC8905 processor paired with 512MB of RAM. The phone offers 4GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card. 

Caeras, Software and Battery

Caeras, Software and Battery

Talking about the cameras, Jio Phone packs a 2-megapixel primary camera on the rear and a 0.3-megapixel front shooter for selfies. The handset runs on KAI OS and is powered by a 2000mAh removable battery.

Other Features
 

Other Features

The single SIM (GSM) mobile offers connectivity options like Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, Headphones, FM and 4G (with support for Band 40 used by some LTE networks in India). Jio Phone price in India starts from Rs. 1500.

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