The New JioPhone 2

Jio Phone Monsoon Hungama exchange offer was announced today at the Reliance Industries Annual General Meeting (AGM) to make it easier for buyers to upgrade to the Jio Phone. As part of the offer, users can upgrade to the Jio Phone by exchanging their existing feature phones. Reliance Industries claims that this Monsoon Hungama offer will bring down the effective price of Jio Phone from Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 501. The Jio Phone Monsoon Hungama offer will be available throughout India starting July 21. At the event, Jio also announced the launch of Jio GigaFiber broadband service in 1,100 cities and release the Jio Phone 2 4G feature phone with QWERTY keyboard on August 15. 

The phone, priced Rs 2,999, is slated to be released on August 15 and will contain ‘advanced features’ compared to its predecessor, the JioPhone.

The JioPhone 2 will have a 512 MB RAM and 4 GB of storage space with expandable storage support of 128 GB. The phone will run on KaiOS and it will carry a battery of 2000 mAH. The phone will have a 2 MP camera on the back and a VGA camera on the front for selfies. The new phone supports dual SIMs and has 4G and VoLTE support.

 

HOW TO GET JIOPHONE 2 

You need to wait till August 15, when the new phones will be available.

—You can order the phones via either My Jio app or the official Jio website (www.jio.com) at a price of Rs 2,999.

—You can also register for JiO GigaFiber  from August 15. JioGigaFiber, a fixed-line broadband service is currently in beta testing phase and will be launched simultaneously in 1100 cities across the country.

Jio had begun rolling out beta trials of the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) services at select locations in six cities 

— Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Surat and Vadodara in May 2017.

The FTTH services are expected to offer download speeds of at least 100 Mbps at affordable rates.