Google Invests $22 million In The OS Powering Nokia Feature Phones
It seems that failed mobile operating systems often get a second chance. Despite impressing many smartphone fanatics with its gesture based navigation, Nokia went one and done with MeeGo, which was offered on 2011"s Nokia N9. While Nokia was looking for a more modern OS to replace Symbian, then-CEO Stephen Elop decided to go with Microsoft"s Windows Phone platform and jettisoned MeeGo, which later evolved into Jolla"s Sailfish OS. Mozilla ended development on its smartphone operating system, Firefox OS, at the beginning of 2017, according to CNET report . But since it was open-source, other companies have used the code for new products. KaiOS is one fork of Firefox OS, and was first released in March of 2017. Google has already developed applications for KaiOS, but now it"s investing $22 million into the company building it. Only a handful of devices have shipped with KaiOS at this point, including the Alcatel OneTouch Go Flip, the Reliance Jio Jio Phone, and the N...