Reliance Jio, the Mukesh Ambani-owned telecommunication service provider, announced the Jio Phone 2 at the Reliance Industries' 41st Annual General Meeting, which was held in Mumbai on July 4. The successor to the JioPhone, the Jio Phone 2 is also a 4G LTE-enabled feature phone. However, it boasts a new form factor, inspired from Blackberry devices with a full QWERTY keyboard and a horizontal screen. The phone comes preloaded with several new apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube. The phone will be available at an introductory price of Rs 2,999, and pre-booking would start from tomorrow (August 15) on