JioPhone

Existing JioPhone plans will continue alongside the newly introduced plans

Jio was the only operator to add 7.2 million active subscribers in August 2019

Last week, Jio, telecom arm of Reliance Industries, said it would during the Dussehra and Diwali period make the JioPhone available for a special price of Rs 699

Share of JioPhone in the featurephone market has shrunk from 47% in the second quarter of 2018 to 28% a year after

The app has been designed from scratch to work on KaiOS, the default operating system that comes loaded with the Reliance JioPhone

The government did not disclose the investments entailing these and other facilities proposed to be set by the company

With 30 million units shipped, the smartphone market recorded a 19 per cent sequential decline in 4Q

The phone went on pre-registrations in August and based on company's claim, almost 6 million people registered for the India's first 4G-feature phone

The company announced the launch of 4G and VoLTE-enabled JioPhone on July 21

The Twitter handle that shared the picture of the burned device has now deleted the post

The security deposit is refundable only after completion of 36-months and before 39-months from the date of first issue of JioPhone

Pre-booking of JioPhones started on August 24 against payment of a refundable deposit of Rs 500

The pre-booking of JioPhones started on August 24 against payment of a refundable deposit of Rs 500

The sales of JioPhone units, the first 4G-enabled feature phone, will begin in September

This could impact volume sales of feature phones in the range of 25-30 per cent

The messages are being sent to all those who have registered their interest in JioPhone

Competitive price will face stiff challenge from incumbents such as DD Free Dish

The Jio official portal has put up a 'Keep me informed' banner

VoLTE, Voice commands, online videos and music are some of the smartphone-like features

The phone will be available for pre-booking from August 24