The 8110 "banana" phone Nokia will also receive WhatsApp, after its announcement for Jio Phone

Nokia 8110, the banana phone, will also get support for WhatsApp soon revealed the company after the announcement of Jio Phone 2.

Reliance announced yesterday its Jio Phone 2 at the 41st Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), and revealed that near 25 million users in India were using the original JioPhone that was launched in 2017. The company also confirmed that popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube would come to the original JioPhone and the new JioPhone 2. Mainte nant, HMD Global, which is also competing in the business phone segment confirmed that WhatsApp, YouTube and F acebook will also be part of their Nokia 8110 4G phone

The Nokia 8110 4G phone was announced by the company at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in February with other new devices like the Nokia 6.1, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 1 and Nokia 8 Sirocco. Nokia 8110 is a slide-up phone with a keyboard as well, although the feature phone is still to be launched in India. Juho Sarvikas, product director of HMD Global, revealed in a tweet that the phone would receive WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube.

Sarvikas was responding to a tweet from KaiOS Technologies, which feeds the operating system of JioPhone, JioPhone 2 and Nokia 8110. KaisOS had tweeted saying, "The next chapter #JioPhone arrives as our partner @RelianceJio @youtube ad , @facebook, and @whatsapp, as well as the # JioPhone2 with QWERTY keyboard, powered by @kaiostech. " For this, Sarvikas replied, "In the expectation of going bananas (portrayed as emoji)."

Nokia 8110 is also known as the banana phone, just like the original phone, account The bright yellow body and the curved shape.The HMD Global features phone is powered by the same KaiOS, and it would be fair to expect that most of these applications will also be routed to the KaiOS. other phones with budget functions on the operating system

a partnership and a $ 22 million investment from Google, in which applications of the research giant would be incorporated into its phones KaiOS had announced that applications like Google Search, Google Assistant, Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail would come to the platform.

Check out Sarvikas' tweet below

Oh look, # Whatsapp on #KaiOS ! Looking forward to going there! https://t.co/Av6gW3T2M0

– Juho Sarvikas (@sarvikas) July 5, 2018

Nokia 8110 has a 2.45-inch QVGA color display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 205 dual-core processor 1 , 1 GHz coupled with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory and support for microSD card (up to 128GB). It should be noted that HMD Global had said at the launch of Nokia 8110 in February, that the phone will support applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, Google Assistant, and even the popular game Snake.

The phone was launched at a price of 79 Euros, about 6,000 Rs in India, and therefore much more expensive than the Jio Phone 2. HMD Global has promised that the Nokia 8110 will be available in India, even if that has not yet occurred.

Launching apps like WhatsApp, Facebook on these budget smart phones could boost their use cases. In India, many users still can not afford to buy a smartphone, but a phone that could work with WhatsApp could well change the deal.

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