KaiOS
Sign in to savethumb|Nokia 8110 4G "banana phone" KaiOS is a mobile Linux distribution for keypad-based mobile phones. It is designed and optimised for affordable and low-power feature phones, while retaining access to Internet services through web apps, based on the Gecko engine. KaiOS was originally forked from the former Firefox OS open-source project, and is developed by KaiOS Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited; a company based in Hong Kong, whose largest shareholder is Chinese electronics conglomerate TCL Corporation.''''
Key facts
- OS.name
- KaiOS
- OS.logo
- KaiOS logo.svg
- OS.logo size
- 250px
- OS.developer
- KaiOS Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited (with TCL as largest shareholder)
- OS.family
- Linux (Unix-like)Android
- OS.working_state
- Current
- OS.source_model
- Source-available (except for the binary blobs)
- OS.latest_release_version
- 4.0
- OS.marketing target
- Feature phones
- OS.programmed in
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++
- OS.language
- 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
- OS.language count
- 88
- OS.package_manager
- KaiStore
- OS.supported_platforms
- ARM
- OS.kernel_type
- Monolithic (Linux)
- OS.ui
- Graphical
- OS.license
- Proprietary, Linux kernel patches under GPLv2,B2G under MPL
- OS.preceded by
- Firefox OS, Nokia Asha platform
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.kaiostech.com
- Image
- 01. Onboarding Flow.png
- Motto
- Enable tomorrow
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- inception
- 2017-03-01
- software version identifier
- 3.1
- Commons category
- KaiOS
- social media followers
- 10797
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7 sectionsContents
- Overview and features
- History
- Devices
- Release history
- Jailbreak
- References
- External links
thumb|Nokia 8110 4G "banana phone" KaiOS is a mobile Linux distribution for keypad-based mobile phones. It is designed and optimised for affordable and low-power feature phones, while retaining access to Internet services through web apps, based on the Gecko engine. KaiOS was originally forked from the former Firefox OS open-source project, and is developed by KaiOS Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited; a company based in Hong Kong, whose largest shareholder is Chinese electronics conglomerate TCL Corporation.''''
Currently, KaiOS was forked from Android for Gonk, so that device manufacturers and KaiOS themselves don't have to develop separate drivers for every component wanting to interact with the Gecko engine, but it cannot run Android's apps due to the lack of Android Runtime.