All that we know about JioPhone2 so far

The launch of JioPhone2 was officially announced during the last Annual General Meet of Reliance Industries. The previous version of JioPhone was a huge hit as the company was offering the phone at almost zero price. Earlier the company had announced that the bookings for JioPhone2 will be starting August 15, but in a recent update the time has been shifted by few hours to 16th August at 12PM.

This new version of advanced 4G phone offers several interesting features including a physical keyboard in the format of QWERTY. It will also have the support of most used social media sites like facebook, YouTube, Whatsapp. The price of Reliance Jio’s second avatar of JioPhone is Rs 2,999/-. The JioPhone announced in 2017 was priced at Rs 1,500. Reliance Jio had said that this amount will be refunded to the customers after a gap of three years when they return the phone to it.

The JioPhone2 comes with a qwerty keypad- much like old Nokia Asha and Blackberry phones. It has four-way navigation keys and a mono speaker. The screen size is the same as of the JioPhone i.e 2.4-inch QVGA. The JioPhone2 is powered by Spreadtrum 9820 dual-core SoC. In term of specs, the Jio Phone and JioPhone2 are the same. Like the Jio Phone, JioPhone2 also runs on KAI operating system. The phone comes with 4GB of internal storage which can be further expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card and 512MB RAM. Beside all these, it supports Bluetooth, FM radio, VoLTE, VoWiFi, NFC, GPS, LTE Cat4 DL: 150Mbps/UL: 50Mbps, and LTE Band 2,5,40, 2G Band 900/1800. The phone is backed by 2000mAh battery.

The registration of JioPhone2 will begin in the next couple of days on August 15. The JioPhone2 has succeeded last years’ JioPhone1. Apart from JioPhone2, the registration process for JioFiber with FTTH technology will also begin on the same date. Jio’s first feature phone – JioPhone1, which was launched last year was a huge success. Reliance has sold around 25 million units of JioPhone1 so far. Now, with JioPhone2, the telecom giant is aiming for more. The leading telecom giant has quickly made it to the top spot in the Indian feature phone market, highlighting the significance of 4G feature phones.

The JioPhone2 is powered by KaiOS. It is a web-based platform that uses open standards such as HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. It made its India foray with JioPhone in July 2017 and gained a 15% of the mobile OS market beating Apple iOS as the second widely used in India, as per DeviceAtlas’ latest Mobile Web Intelligence Report.

Stay tuned at www.jioduniya.com for more updates about the new JioPhone2 in coming days.