 KaiOS official logo | |
| Developer | KaiOS Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited (with TCL as largest shareholder)[1] |
|---|---|
| Written in | HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++ |
| OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Source-available (except for the binary blobs) |
| Initial release | October 2017 |
| Latest release | January 2023 |
| Marketing target | Feature phones |
| Available in | 88 languages[2] |
List of languages Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Bodo, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dogri, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Konkani, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maithili, Malay, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Oriya, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian (Moldavia), Romanian (Romania), Russian, Sanskrit, Santali, Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic alphabet), Simplified Chinese, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America),
Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Zulu | |
| Package manager | KaiStore |
| Platforms | ARM |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Default user interface | Graphical |
| License | Proprietary, Linux kernel patches under GPLv2, B2G under MPL[3][4][5] |
| Preceded by | Firefox OS, Nokia Asha platform |
| Official website | www |
KaiOS is a mobile Linux distribution for keypad feature phones based on the Firefox OS open-source project.[6] It is developed by KaiOS Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited; a company based in Hong Kong, whose largest shareholder is Chinese electronics conglomerate TCL Corporation.[7][1] KaiOS runs on feature phones or wireless home phones made with low-power hardware and low power consumption (and therefore long battery life). KaiOS supports modern connectivity technologies like 4G LTE, VoLTE, GPS, and Wi-Fi. KaiOS runs HTML5-based apps, supports over-the-air updates, and has a dedicated app marketplace called KaiStore.[8] Some applications are preinstalled onto the phone, including Facebook and YouTube.[9] As of 1 April 2020[update], there are 500+ apps in KaiStore. The mobile operating system is comparatively lightweight on hardware resource usage, and is able to run on devices with just 256 megabytes (MB) of memory.[10]
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- ^ "KaiOS Source code". KaiOS. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ Das, DJ (10 October 2019). "DJ Das". Authors group. doi:10.1287/9ea64c20-808c-4b4f-9ae8-f0d23963a8af. S2CID 243202603. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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- ^ "All you need to know about KaiOS that runs on Jio feature phone". Blogpoke.com. Blogpoke. Archived from the original on 3 December 2017.
- ^ "KaiOS is on 30 million phones and now has Google apps, Facebook, Twitter". MobilityArena.com. Mobility Arena. 27 February 2018. Archived from the original on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.