Jio Phone : Meet the ‘almost free’ 4G phone

Mukesh Ambani has announced Jio phone and well, it is one good deal every Indian will go for.

Price of Jio Phone? You will have to pay Rs1500 & the same will be refunded after 3 years! That is, effectively the phone is free.

Jio phone picture
Jio phone picture

Calling it asĀ ‘India Ka Smartphone’ , Mukesh Ambani has announced that Jio phone is a 4G feature phone that can work on voice commands. The JioPhone will be available for user testing in beta from August 15.

Jio phone features

Features of Jio phone includes alphanumeric keyboard / support fpr NFC, SD card slot etc. Important to note that voice calls will be totally ‘free’ !

Jio phone launch date.

From last quarter of 2017, all JioPhones will be made in India. We are targeting to have 5 million JioPhones a week: Mukesh Ambani

Booking starts from Aug 24th.

It’d be interesting to see whether Jio phone runs on Android or any other OS? Will it be a ‘walled garden’ for Jio to monetize its ecosystem?
Also read: Why is Mukesh Ambani more successful than Anil? This research has the answer.

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