Reliance Jio's triple-cashback offer has finally ended, and now the company is back with a new cashback offer dubbed "Jio Surprise Cashback Offer". This time customers will get cashback of up to Rs. 3,300, when they make a recharge of Rs. 399 or more. The benefits are same as before, but Jio has partnered with new e-commerce portal to offer vouchers.
The Rs. 3300 cashback is divided into three types: standard cashback worth Rs. 400 in the form of vouchers via MyJio app, up to Rs. 300 cashback on Jio partner wallet apps, and e-commerce recharge vouchers worth Rs. 2600.
Jio customers who purchase Rs. 399 plan and above from MyJio app or Jio's website will get cashback of Rs. 400 in the form of eight vouchers of Rs. 50. Cashback vouchers will be provided instantly in MyJio app and can be redeemed when making future Jio recharges.
Next up, Jio is offering instant cashback of up to Rs. 300 for new customers on every recharge made through Jio's partner wallet platform including AmazonPay, AxisPay, FreeCharge, Mobikwik, Paytm and PhonePe. Here’s the breakdown of digital wallet instant cashbacks:
- Amazon Pay – both old and new customers get Rs. 100
- Paytm – new customers get Rs. 50, old customers get Rs. 30
- PhonePe – new customers get Rs. 75, old customers get Rs. 30
- Axis Pay – new customers get Rs. 100, old customers get Rs. 30
- FreeCharge – new customers get Rs. 50, old customers get Rs. 30
- MobiKwik – both old and new customers get Rs. 300 (using JIOGIFT code at the time of recharge)
Lastly Jio has teamed up with e-commerce portals Grofers, OYO, Yatra, Paytm Mall, Big Basket and Zoomcar to offer the cashback offers of up to Rs. 2,600. The coupons will expire on March 31, 2018.
The Jio Surprise Cashback offer is now live and will end of January 15, 2018. Do not that you need to be a Jio Prime member to avail the cashback offer.
Reliance Jio is back again to shake the telecom industry with two new prepaid monthly plans of denomination Rs. 199 and Rs. 299. These two plans are part of Jio's new Happy New Year recharge scheme, and are designed to offer daily data benefits along with unlimited voice calls to those with limited budgets.
Starting with the Rs. 199 plan, it offers unlimited voice calling including roaming, unlimited SMS and 1.2GB data per day for 28 days. This means you're getiing a total of 33.6GB high-speed data for the validity period.
Secondly, the Rs. 299 plan also offers unlimited voice calling including roaming and unlimited SMS, but gives you 2GB data per day for 28 days.
The data is actually unlimited on both Rs. 199 and Rs. 299 plans, but once you cross the daily FUP of 1.2GB/2GB high-speed data limit, the speed will drop to 128kbps.
Apart these two plans, Jio will continue to offer Rs. 149, Rs. 399, Rs 459, Rs 499, and Rs 509 tariff plans. The base plan Rs. 149 offers only 4.2GB data for 28 days, while the Rs. 399, Rs. 459 plan and Rs. 499 plans offer 1GB data per day for 70 days, 84 days and 91 days respectively. The Rs. 509 plan has a validity of 49 days and give 2GB data per day. All these plan also offering free voice calling, national roaming and SMS.
Now that Reliance Jio has fired the shot, we can expect other telecom operators to come out with counter offers to give similar benefits to their customers. Airtel has already revised its Rs. 199 plan to offer 1GB data per day for 28 days, along with unlimited voice calls including national roaming and free SMS. Earlier the same plan offered only 1GB data for 28 days, and other benefits.
Reliance Jio has once again extended the Triple Cashback offer. The offer was supposed to end on December 15, but now it is extended till December 25. The benefits of the cashback offer has not been revised, so the cashback is still Rs. 2599.
Just like before, The Rs 2599 cashback is divided into three types: standard cashback worth Rs. 400 in the form of vouchers via MyJio app, up to Rs. 300 cashback on Jio partner wallet apps, and e-commerce recharge vouchers worth Rs 1899.
Jio customers who purchase Rs. 399 plan and above from MyJio app or Jio's website will get cashback of Rs. 400 in the form of eight vouchers of Rs. 50. Cashback vouchers will be provided instantly in MyJio app and can be redeemed when making future Jio recharges.
Next up, Jio is offering instant cashback of up to Rs. 300 for new customers (up to Rs. 149 for existing customers) on every recharge made through Jio's partner wallet platform including AmazonPay, AxisPay, FreeCharge, Mobikwik, Paytm and PhonePe. You can check out the cashback amount from the wallet below:
Lastly, Jio has teamed up with several e-commerce brands such as AJIO, Yatra and Reliance Trends to offer additional benefits in the form of special vouchers worth Rs. 1,899. AJIO voucher offers customers Rs 399 off on a minimum purchase of Rs. 1500 at ajio.com. Yatra.com voucher offer Jio customers Rs. 1000 discount on all round trip domestic flight tickets and a discount of Rs. 500 on one-way tickets. Reliancetrends.com vouchers offer customer instant discount of Rs. 500 for purchase worth Rs. 1,999.
Earlier this year, Reliance Jio took the feature phone market by storm by launching the JioPhone. The handset came with all basic features like web browser, support for video steaming on YouTube web and JioCinema app. It was powered by Qualcomm's 205 Mobile platform and even had its own voice assistant.
However, now Google at its Google for India event has announced a special version of Google Assistant for the JioPhone. As a reminder, Google Assistant is currently supported on device running Android and iOS. But JioPhone is the first non-Android device to support Assistant.
The special version of Google Assistant designed for JioPhone will support English and Hindi languages. It will be available for the JioPhone starting today and will enable users to give voice commands to ask Assistant to navigate and search the web, make phone calls, text, play music and videos, access other apps and services, and more.
Google in a blog post said “This will help bring the benefits of the Google Assistant to millions of first time internet users on the JioPhone with an intuitive voice-based user interface, along with a rich set of data services.”
After teaming up with the likes of HMD Global, Samsung, Xiaomi, Asus, Oppo, vivo, Intex and others, Reliance Jio has now announed its partnership with Infinix to bundle additional data benefits with the recently launched Infinix Zero 5/Zero 5 Pro handsets.
Additionally, other smartphones including Nokia 6, Nokia 2, Nokia 3, vivo V7 and vivo V7+ are now included in the list of Jio's additional data offer.
Infinix Zero 5 & Zero 5 Pro
Owners of Infinix 5/Zero 5 Pro will get up to 100GB additional data for 10 months, given that they activate Jio 4G SIM after November 22, 2017 and make a recharge of Rs. 309 every month for 10 months. Customers will get the extra 10GB data per month (10GB x 10 month) in the form of voucher, and they can continue receiving the additional data until October 18, 2018. The voucher will expire one year from the date of crediting into the Jio account.
Nokia 2, Nokia 3 and Nokia 6
Last month Reliance Jio offered additional data for Nokia 5 and Nokia 8 users. Now the benefits has extended to Nokia 2, Nokia 3 and Nokia 6 users.
Nokia 2 and Nokia 3 users will get additional 5GB data every month for the next nine months, for a total of 45GB. Nokia 6 users owners one the other hand will also get additional 5GB data every month, but for the next 10 months, which makes it 50GB data during the offer period. The offer period is applicable from November 24, 2017 and users can continue receiving extra data until August 2018.
Vivo V7 and Vivo V7+
Customers who have purchased the vivo V7/V7+ and activated Jio SIM on or after September, 7, 2017 are eligible to get 10GB data per month from Reliance Jio for 10 months, which takes the total to 100GB 4G data. The offer is valid till May 31, 2018.
General Terms and conditions
To avail the extra data benefits, customers should perform a monthly recharge of Rs. 309 or above during the offer period. The additional data will be credited to the customer's Jio account with 48 hours from the recharge time.
To activate the additional data voucher and avail the offer, eligible customer have to open MyJio app on his/her device and follow the following steps: Open My Jio App -> My Vouchers -> View Voucher -> Recharge my number -> Confirm Recharge-> Successful Recharge Notification. Thereafter the extra data voucher will reflect under the My Plans section.
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Xiaomi on Thursday finally launched its Desh Ka Smartphone, the Redmi 5A. It is the company's most affordable offering till date for the Indian market priced at Rs. 4,999 for the base variant with 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage.
However, to make the offer more enticing, Xiaomi has teamed up with Relaince Jio and announced a new offer called 'Better Together'.
Under the Better Together offer, Redmi 5A buyers will get additional Rs. 1,000 cashback, which brings the phone's effective price down to Rs. 3,999. But there's a catch.
Reliance Jio has introduced a new tariff plan of Rs. 199 exclusive for Redmi 5A users. The plan offers unlimited voice calls, unlimited SMS and 1GB of 4G data per day for 28 days.
So, for the customer to get the Rs. 1,000 cashback need to recharge the Rs. 199 plan every month continuously for 12 months. Sadly, the cashback is not given back in the form of money, instead customers will get 10 cashback vouchers of Rs. 100 denominations at the end of 12 months, given they have recharged with Rs. 199 plan every month till date.
To be eligible for the offer, the first recharge should be done between December 5, 2017, and November 30, 2018. The cashback vouchers will be credited to the customer's Jio account, and will be visible under My Vouchers section MyJio app. Also only one cashback vouceher can be redeemed at a time against the recharge of Rs. 309 or above packs or Rs. 201 data add on packs via My Jio app before November 2019.
Speaking of the Redmi 5A, the phone is a minor upgrade over Redmi 4A. It ships with 5-inch HD display, quad-core Snapdragon 425 chip, 3000mAh battery, 13MP/5MP camera and 3000mAh battery. It runs Android Nougat based MIUI 9 out of the box.
It's worth mentioning that, only the first five million units of the Redmi 5A 2GB/16GB model will cost Rs. 4,999, after that the price will start at Rs. 5,999. There's also 3GB/32GB model priced at Rs. 6,999. Sadly there's no fingerprint scanner.
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Reliance Jio introduced triple cashback offer earlier this month to counter incumbent telecom operators telecom tariff plans. The offer went live on November 10, and was supported to end November 25. However, Jio has extended the Triple Cashback offer until December 15, 2017. The benefits remain unchanged.
Same as before, Jio customers who purchase Rs. 399 plan and above from MyJio app or Jio's website will get cashback of Rs. 400 in the form of eight vouchers of Rs. 50. Cashback vouchers will be provided instantly in MyJio app and can be redeemed when making future Jio recharges.
Next up, Jio is offering instant cashback of up to Rs. 300 for new customers (up to Rs. 149 for existing customers) on every recharge made through Jio's partner wallet platform including AmazonPay, AxisPay, FreeCharge, Mobikwik, Paytm and PhonePe.
Lastly, Jio has teamed up with several e-commerce brands such as AJIO, Yatra and Reliance Trends to offer additional benefits in the form of special vouchers worth Rs. 1,899. AJIO voucher offers customers Rs 399 off on a minimum purchase of Rs. 1500 at ajio.com. Yatra.com voucher offer Jio customers Rs. 1000 discount on all round trip domestic flight tickets and a discount of Rs. 500 on one-way tickets. Reliancetrends.com vouchers offer customer instant discount of Rs. 500 for purchase worth Rs. 1,999.
Reliance Jio has been partnering with various smartphone brands like Samsung, Xiaomi, Asus, Oppo, vivo, Intex among others to offer additional data benefits on recharges made. Joining the list is Nokia.
Under the offer, customers purchasing Nokia 8 and Nokia 5 will get up to 100GB and 50GB additional data respectively. Sadly, the Nokia 2, Nokia 3 and Nokia 6 is not part of the offer yet.
To avail the 100GB data, Nokia 8 users will have to make a recharge of Rs. 309 to get 10GB data of data every month for 10 months, whereas in the case of Nokia 5, users have to make a recharge of the same Rs. 309 and above. Users will have to make the recharge 10 times, and each recharge will give 5GB of additional data. Customers will get free data for ten months until August 31, 2018.
The additional data will be credited to your Jio account within 48 hours from the time of recharge. Also Jio SIM used to recharge on Nokia 8 and Nokia 5 should be activated after October 14, 2017 and November 1, 2017 respectively.
If your are an eligible customer and received the additional data voucher, you need to go to the MyJio app on your Nokia 5 or 8 phone, and follow steps ― MyJio > My Vouchers > View Voucher > Recharge > Recharge my Number > Confirm Recharge to activiate the voucher. Then the additional data vouchers will be reflected under the My Plans section.
As a reminder the Nokia 8 is currently available online on Amazon India, as well as offline stores at Rs. 36,999, while the Nokia 5 2GB model is available offline for Rs. 12,899. There's also a 3GB Nokia 5 model exclusive to Flipkart, and it costs Rs. 13,499.
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Back in August, Oppo teamed up with Reliance Jio to offer up to 60GB additional data for select phones. Now the data benefits have been increased to up to 100GB. The extra data benefits are available for all Jio subscribers effective from October 27, 2017 till the validity of their Prime Membership ends.
To avail the extra data benefits, customers who purchase a new Oppo handset have to do a recharge of Rs. 309 or higher to get additional 4G data up to 100GB (up to 10 recharges).
Specifically, buyers of Oppo F5, Oppo F3, Oppo F3 Plus and Oppo F1 Plus can avail 10GB free 4G data per recharge. Users will have to make a total of 10 recharges to avail the 100GB data. In addition, buyers of Oppo F1s, A33F, A37F, A35Fw, A57 and A71 will get 10GB free 4G data for six recharges, which totals to 60GB free data.
To avail the additional data voucher, customers need to go to the MyJio app on their Oppo devices, and follow steps ―― MyJio > My Vouchers > View Voucher > Recharge > Recharge my Number > Confirm Recharge > Successful Recharge Notification. The additional data voucher will then be shown under the 'My Vouchers' section within 48 hours.
Last month, Reliance Jio announced Diwali offer, under which it offered Jio customers 100 percent cash back on the recharge of Rs. 399. Now the emerging telecom operator has relaunched the same offer with additional benefits under a new scheme called "Triple Cash Back offer".
While the previous cash back offer was only available on Rs. 399 plan, the new Triple cash back offer is applicable on all recharges of Rs. 399 and above, up to Rs. 2,599.
Under the new cash back offers, Jio customers who purchase Rs. 399 plan and above from MyJio app or Jio's website will get cashback of Rs. 400 in the form of eight vouchers of Rs. 50. These vouchers can be used on future Jio recharge plans.
Additionally, extending the partnership, several digital wallet providers including Mobikwik, Amazon Pay, Axis Pay, PhonePe, Paytm and FreeCharge will offer additional cash of up to Rs. 300 on the plan for new users. As for existing users, recharge of Rs. 399 or above will give you a maximum cash back of Rs. 149 on the digital wallets. You can check out below cashback offered by various digital wallet service.
Jio has also teamed with several e-commerce brands such as AJIO, Yatra and Reliance Trends to offer additional benefits in the form of special vouchers.
Highlights of Jio triple cashback offer
- 100% cash back vouchers of JIO worth Rs. 400 (Rs 50 x 8) on every Jio tariff plan recharge of Rs 399 or above. Cashback vouchers will be provided instantly in MyJio, for redemption from 15th Nov 2017
- Instant cashback of upto Rs. 300 on every recharge by Jio’s partner wallets including leading digital payment wallets like AmazonPay, AxisPay, FreeCharge, Mobikwik, Paytm and PhonePe.
- Jio special vouchers from eCommerce partners – AJIO, Yatra.com and RelianceTrends.com. AJIO voucher offers customers Rs 399 off on a minimum purchase of Rs. 1500 at ajio.com. Rs. 1000 on all round trip domestic flight tickets booked through yatra.com and a discount of Rs 500 on one way tickets. Shopping at reliancetrends.com offers instant discount of Rs 500 for purchases worth Rs 1999 and above. Ecommerce vouchers will be available from 20th Nov
Reliance Jio's Triple cash back offer will kick of tomorrow, November 10 and run till November 25.
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As expected Reliance Jio has revised the price of it plans. Starting with the popular Rs. 399 plan, that previously replaced 309 plan, will now cost Rs. 459. The benefits are still the same, and you'll be getting unlimited voice calls, 100 free SMS, and 1GB data per day for 84 days. This plan will also give you unlimited access to Jio apps like JioTV, JioCinema, JioMusic among others.
However, there is one change, the FUP limit speed has been reduced to 64kbps from 128kbps.
That said, the Rs. 399 plan still exists, and offers the same benefits as the Rs. 459 plan, but the validity is for only 70 days, down from the previous 84 days validitity. However, the Rs. 309 plan which used to offer 1GB data per day for 56 days has been scrapped.
The existing Rs. 149 plan which offered 2GB data for 28 days will now offer 4GB data. Whereas the Rs. 509 plan will give 2GB data per day for 49 days (previously 56 days) bundled with unlimited voice calls, and access to Jio apps.
Speaking of the premium plans, the Rs. 999 tariff plan will give 60GB data for three months, while Rs. 1,999 plans will bundle 125GB data with a validity of six months. Both plans offer unlimited voice calls, and access to Jio apps.
There's also Rs. 4999 plan that gives 350GB data for 360 days (one year), along with unlimited voice calls and premium access to Jio apps. Jio is calling this as an annual plan.
Then there are the low cost plans for Rs. 19, Rs. 52 and Rs. 98. The Rs. 19 plan is valid for only a day and offers 150MB data, 70 free SMS and unlimited calls, while the Rs. 52 plans also gives 150MB data, but with extended validity of seven days. Lastly, the Rs. 98 plan has a validity of two weeks and offer 150GB data.
It's worth mentioning that all the plans offer unlimited data, but after you exhaust the daily high-speed data limit, you'll have to browse the web with 64kbps speed. Earlier Jio was offering speeds of up to 128kbps.
To known the exact details of the aforementioned plans you can refer the table below:
All these plans have come into effect and you can recharge via MyJio mobile app, Jio website, Reliance Digital, Express Mini stores and Jio partners.
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Just in time for Diwali, Reliance Jio is back with a new offer. The telecom operator is now offering 100 percent cashback on every recharge of Rs. 399. It also said that it will revise its recharge plans on October 19.
The new Diwali Cashback offer is now live and will run till October 18, and during the period, you can recharge your Prime membership plan with Rs. 399 and get a 100 percent of Rs. 400. This cashback will be offered in the form of eight vouchers of Rs. 50 each, which you can redeem, on at a time, against future recharges of Rs. 309 and above plans or Rs. 91 and above data-centric add-on packs. The vouchers can be redeemed only after November 15.
One of the benefits of Jio Diwali Cashback offer is that you will be able to continue enjoying current tariffs, even after Jio revises its plans on October 19. In addition, if you currently have the Rs. 399 Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan pack activated, the new recharge will come into effect once the plan ends. To remind you, the Rs. 399 plan for Jio Prime members offer unlimited voice calling and 1GB data per day for 84 days.
Jio users can avail the Jio Cashback offer via MyJio app, Jio.com, Jio Store, Reliance Digital stores, JioMoney, PayTM, AmazonPay, PhonePe and Mobiwik.
OpenSignal, a company that specializes in wireless coverage mapping, has released its latest report on the state of mobile networks in India. The report revealed that Reliance Jio, lagged behind Airtel, Idea and Vodafone in terms of 4G download speeds. However Jio still leads the segment in terms of network availability across the country. The report is based on seven billion tests collected over six months, from over seven lakh mobile devices through the country.
According to the report, Airtel has the fastest 4G download speed among the four national 4G operator. It has an average download speed of 9.1mbps. Vodafone holds the second spot with average 4G download speed of 7.45mbps, followed by Idea at 7.4mbps and Jio at 5.81mbps.
That said, the report mentions that Jio's 4G LTE speed improved in the last six months, after the free data offer ended in March. During the six month period, Jio increased 49 percent (from 3.9mbps to 5.8mbps), while Airtel saw a decline from 11.5mbps to 9.1mbps.
Airtel also topped the 3G speed test as well with download speed of 3.62Mbps, followed by Vodafone at 3.12mbps, Idea at 2.6mbps, BSNL at 1.76mbps and RCom at 1.71mbps. Jio was not mentioned in the list because it is a 4G network only.
However, when it comes to overall download speeds (which includes 2G, 3G and 4G), Jio was ahead of Airtel and others. Jio offered average download speed of 5.81mbps, followed by Airtel at 5.05mbps, Idea at 3.69mbps, BSNL at 1.76mbps, and RCom at 1.71mbps. Jio topped the list despite being slowest to offer 4G download speeds, because, it operates only on super fast 4G networks, while the other telecom operators have users accessing internet through 2G and 3G network as well.
Jio also has the best LTE coverage, covering 95.59 percent of the country. Airtel was at the bottom of the ranking with just 57.16 percent of LTE coverage.
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Reliance Jio has made a change to its entry-level Rs.149 plan and is now offering unlimited data to prepaid users. Previously, the plan offered 2GB data for 28 days, and once the data exhausted, users would have to recharge top-up voucher to continue browsing the internet.
Now, the plan still comes with FUP of 2GB data for 28 days, but once the data limit has been exhausted, users can continue to browser the internet at a lower speed of 64kbps. For comparison, other plans offer speeds up to 128kbps post FUP.
With this speed users will be able to send and receive messages on WhatsApp and FB messenger, but sharing media files, or opening a website will take lot of time.
Apart from 2GB data, the Rs. 149 plan offers unlimited voice calls, SMS and access to Jio's suite of apps.
Rival Airtel also has Rs. 149 plan, but offers only 2GB data, and on-net calls for Rs. 28 days.
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Intex is the latest smartphone maker to team up with telecom operator Relaince Jio, to offer up to 25GB of additional 4G data to its smartphone users. The offer is applicable only for 4G Intex phone, and to avail the offer users will have to recharge with Rs. 309 and above tariff plan.
This means if a 4G Intex smartphone user recharge with Rs. 309 and above tariff plan will get 5GB additional 4G data voucher on top of the regular plan benefits per month for five months. Also this offer is valid for users who activated Jio SIM after September 4, 2017. Moreover, customers can avail the offer for up to five recharges, and is valid till March 31, 2018.
The list of the Intex smartphones eligible for this offer include: Aqua 4.0 4G, Aqua 4G Mini, Aqua Amaze+, Aqua Power IV, Aqua Prime 4G, Aqua Pro 4G, Aqua Strong 5.1+, Aqua Trend Lite, Elyt-e1, Elyt-e7, Aqua Selfie, Aqua S1, Aqua Lions 3, Aqua Style III, Aqua Lions 2, Aqua 5.5 VR+, Aqua Note 5.5, Aqua Zenith, Cloud Q11 and Cloud Style 4G.
Previously Reliance Jio collaborated with several smartphone brands including Gionee, Xiaomi, Asus, Lenovo, Oppo and more to offer additional data.
The 4G VoLTE enabled JioPhone's pre-bookings opened on August 24, and the next day it was halted due to high demand. Bookings for the handset crossed three million in a couple of hours.
Now according to reports JioPhone booking crossed a massive six million units within a day. Apart from six million booking, an additional 10 million users registered interest in the handset after the pre-bookings were closed.
This is no surprise given that Jio Phone is effectively priced at Rs. 0, however, you have to shell out Rs. 1,500 as security deposit, with Rs. 500 as pre-booking fee, and the remaining Rs. 1,000 to be paid at the time of delivery. The security deposit will be refunded after three years, and you'll have to return the handset as well.
The figure exceeded Reliance Jio's expectation, as the company plans to roll out five million JioPhones a week, and sell two million units within two years. With JioPhone, the company is targeting over 50 crore feature phone users who are still on 2G/3G connection to migrate to 4G networks at an affordable cost.
Lastly the report mentions that Reliance Jio will start shipping the JioPhone on Navaratri, which begins on September 21.
To recap the specs, the JioPhone comes with 2.4-inch QVGA display, quad-core Spreadtrum/Qualcomm 205 processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage, front and back camera, and 2000mAh battery that's rated to deliver 12 hours of talk time and 15 days of standby time. It runs Kai OS, and supports 4G VoLTE, WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.1, microSD card slot for connectivity. Sadly, it gets only a single SIM slot and WiFi Hotspot function is not supported.
The handset also comes pre-loaded with select Jio suite of apps like JioMusic, JioCinema, JioTV, JioXpressNews and MyJio and there's a dedicated button to access voice enabled Jio Assistant, that lets you make calls, send SMS, browse internet, open apps and more. It also supports 22 regional languages.
Reliance Jio is offering three packs to take full advantage of JioPhone's services: a monthly Rs. 153 pack, weekly Rs. 54 pack and two days Rs. 24 pack. All these plans offer unlimited voice calls, SMS and data (w/ 500MB FUP per day).
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After Gionee, Asus and Xiaomi, Reliance Jio is now teaming up with Oppo to offer additional data benefits to buyers of select Oppo smartphones and enroll into Jio Prime membership. Customers will get up to 10GB additional data on every recharge of Rs. 309 or above, and the benefits can be availed for a maximum of six recharge cycle.
Buyers of Oppo F3, F3 Plus and F1 Plus will get up to 60GB additional 4G data at 10GB data per month. One the other hand, Oppo F1s, A57, A37 and A33 buyers will get up to 42GB additional data at 7GB of 4G data per month on every recharge.
Theses benefits will be available for all eligible subscribers from June 30 2017, till the validity of their Prime Membership lapses, that's March 31, 2018.
To activate the additional data vouchers and avail the benefits, users will have to download the MyJio app on their Oppo smartphones. Then open the app and click on 'My Vouchers' tab followed by 'View Voucher'. Click on 'Recharge my number' and then 'Confirm Recharge', and if successful, users will be notified about the recharge. The additional data voucher will then be shown under the 'My Plans' section.
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The highly-anticipated 4G VoLTE enabled JioPhone pre-booking kicks off today at 5:30pm (via MyJio app, Jio online, and Jio retailer), and now Reliance Jio has revealed the complete details including specs sheet of the feature phone on its website.
The JioPhone features a 2.4-inch QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) display, and some units will come with 1.2GHz quad-core Spreadtrum 9820A processor, and others will use Qualcoom's 205 Mobile Platform. It has 512MB RAM and 4GB storage, which can be further expanded via microSD card.
It gets a 2MP rear camera and 0.3MP selfie camera at the front. It offers a host of connectivity features like 4G, VoLTE, WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS. Unfortunately, it has only a single SIM slot, and dosen't support WiFi hotspot function.
The handset will be powered by KAI OS, and come pre-loaded with select Jio suite of apps like JioMusic, JioCinema, JioTV, JioXpressNews and MyJio. There's also a dedicated button for voice emabled Jio Assistant, that lets you make calls, send SMS, browse internet, open apps and more.
It supports 22 regional languages, and you can use the JioMediaCable (bundled with Rs. 309 pack) to connect the JioPhone to a TV, and watch movies and TV shows through JioCinema app. It packs 2000mAh battery, that's rated to deliver 12 hours of talk time and 15 days of standby time.
As for the pricing, the Jio Phone has an effective cost of Rs. 0, but to avoid potential misuse Reliance Jio is asking for Rs. 1,500 secruity deposit, that will be refunded after three years after you return the handset. The payment is divided into two parts: You have to pay Rs. 500 at the time of pre-booking, and the reaming Rs. 1000 after you get the handset.
To take full advantage of JioPhone's services, you have options to buy a monthly plan of Rs. 153 or two sachet plans: weekly pack of Rs. 54, and two days Rs. 24 pack. All these plans offer unlimited voice calls, SMS and data (w/ 500MB FUP per day).
The highly anticipated 4G VoLTE enabled JioPhone will finally be up for pre-order today. Pre-bookings kicks off at 17:30 (5:30pm) later today and can be done in three ways through MyJio app, official website, or authorized Reliance Jio offline retailers.
As for the deposit, earlier it was said that Relaince Jio will collect one-time refundable security deposit of Rs. 1,500. But that's not the case anymore. The company will collect the payment in two parts: Rs. 500 at the time of pre-booking, and the remaining Rs. 1,000 at the time of the handset's delivery or pickup. It's worth mentioning that, JioPhone is effectively fee, but the company is collecting the security amount to avoid potential misuse, and will refund it after three years (JioPhone should also be returned).
To book JioPhone, open MyJio app and tap on the Prebook Now option. Next enter your mobile number and the PIN Code of the area you want the phone to be delivered. Click proceed and make the payment, and once confirmed you'll get a booking ID on the app as well as SMS, which you will have to provide to the designated retiler while picking up the handset.
To recap the specs, the JioPhone has 2.4-inch QVGA screen, Alphanumeric keypad, four-way navigation key, torchlight, 2MP rear camera, VGA front camera, 4GB internal storage, microSD card slot, FM Radio, headphone jack and support for 22 Indian languages, SOS function and NFC support. It comes pre-loaded with voice-activated Jio Assistant, built-in browser, Jio Cinema app, and also gives access to live TV with up to 400+ channels.
To take full advantage of JioPhone's services, you have options to buy a monthly plan of Rs. 153 or two sachet plans: Rs. 54 per week and Rs. 24 for two days. All these plans offer unlimited voice calls, SMS and data (w/ 500MB FUP per day).
The JioPhone will be available in limited quantities initially, so it will be distributed on a first come first serve basis, which means those who register early, will have a chance to get it early. Shipping will begin mid-September.
Last month Reliance Jio took the feature phone market by storm, by launching the 4G VoLTE enabled JioPhone for an effective price of Rs. 0 (with a 3-year refundable deposit of Rs 1500). The handset packs Snapdragon 205 chip, bunch of Jio apps, dirt cheap data plans and supports YouTube and Facebook.
Unfortunately there is no support for WhatsApp and even though Jio, with nearly 125 million subscribers has its own messaging app called JioChat, WhatsApp is to big too ignore, given the fact that it has over 200 million monthly users in the country.
An earlier report suggested that WhatsApp support will be added to JioPhone at a later stage, and now it seems like the talks are on....
According to a report from Factor Daily, Jio and WhatsApp are in early talks to create of version of the messaging app that will work optimally on JioPhone. The report citing sources says “There have been a few meetings between Reliance Jio officials and WhatsApp officials… but the discussions are preliminary,”
The report also mentions that there are technical challenges to bring WhatsApp to JioPhone, as it run KaiOS, a forked version of Firefox operating system, and the OS does not support WhatsApp at the moment. So the app will have to be developed ground up and shed some features, to make it run smoothly on a feature phone.
As of now, it is not known, when JioPhone will get WhatsApp support, but having a version of the popular messaging app, will be a unique selling point for JioPhone, and will help it grow in the market as well.
