Full video of what shows a Nokia feature phone running Android 8.1 has now emerged. The unknown Nokia feature phone prototype is not running KaiOS and rather one can clearly notice Android 8.1 mentioned in the system settings.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Google did indeed have plans to shoehorn Android into feature phones, only to realise it made more sense to just invest in KaiOS instead. I don’t think this Nokia phone is more than an old prototype.
Note that plenty of feature phones are shipping that do run Android, although most of them are running much older Android (Sonim, for instance, ported the last bits of non-touch support left over in Android 4.x to Android 5.0 for their devices.)
Great! How long ’till we start CPU counting cores and RAM size in feature phones too? I give it 2 years.
Full video btw https://youtu.be/P5TtHtvHyEU