By the second of the last quarter of 2019, most savvy highlight telephones supplied by KaiOS will have WhatsApp preinstalled upon shipment. Matt Idema, COO of WhatsApp says that KaiOS becomes WhatsApp’s important partner in helping the giant conversation application to provide private messaging to smart feature phones around the world. By offering WhatsApp on the inexpensive smart feature phone, it will be a big transition for KaiOS towards this goal. KaiOS-powered smart feature phones are said to be a new category of mobile devices that hope to combine the affordability of a feature phone with the essential features of a smartphone. They meet the growing demand for affordable devices from people living across Africa – and other emerging markets – who are not currently online.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 09, 2021 11:15 UTC