JioPhone 2 vs JioPhone: How Reliance Jio's 4G VoLTE feature phones stack up

Both the JioPhone 2 and JioPhone would now support social media and instant messaging apps -- Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp

Reliance Jio, a Mukesh Ambani-owned telecommunication service provider, on Thursday announced the JioPhone 2, a Blackberry-inspired 4G VoLTE-enabled feature phone with full QWERTY keyboard and a horizontal 2.4-inch screen. The phone will be available at an introductory price of Rs 2,999 from August 15 onwards. Along with the launch of the JioPhone 2, the company also announced the JioPhone Monsoon Hungama offer in which the company is offering the first iteration of JioPhone in exchange of any other feature phone at an effective price of Rs 501.

Here is how the JioPhone and JioPhone 2 stack up:

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