Relatively 10 years ago, keypads were quite popular and very successful, soon to be replaced by smart smartphones with touchscreens and many features that were not available before. In general, a phone with a small screen and buttons was only used for calling and sending messages. People in developing countries, on the other hand, cannot afford smartphones and also want to enjoy all the benefits of civilization. Here, phones with KaiOS operating systems come to the aid. By the way, Google has invested about 22 million dollars in this technology.
KaiOS system is designed for budget devices, this is a kind of continuation of Firefox OS, work on which was stopped, but now quite well and steadily began to develop again. KaiOS gives an opportunity to use many applications on mobile phones with small memory capacity, button controls and modest screens. For your information, KaiOS ranks third among operating systems, after Android and iOS from Apple.
What the promising KaiOS system is capable of.
The menu of the operating system is quite practical and easy to understand even for the older generation. It supports 3G, LTE, Wi-FI and even GPS navigation. Everything is of course very much simplified, but quite understandable. Now you can sit on a simple keypad phone in convenient special applications from KaiOS store. Supported applications such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, some messengers, there are even some toys, and it's not bad to talk via wi-fi or 3G in the Viber with your loved ones. All functions and applications are pretty well optimized, so there should be no complications with speed and various glitches.
Software for KaiOS is constantly expanding and pleases many fans of not typical "calls" anymore, it is certainly worth understanding that for $ 30-50 super gadget you will not buy, but here a decent replacement for smartphones will be found quite.