Rs 1299 Jio 4G phone leaked in image, looks like old feature phones

For several days now we are hearing about a cheap Rs 1000 Jio phone that is supposed to hit the market soon. It is said that this phone is not a smartphone but a feature phone. Now, there seems to be an image of such a phone floating on the web. Technology blog Fonearena says that this is Jio's upcoming cheap phone and that it will cost Rs 1,299.

The phone doesn't seem to have touch screen. It looks similar to a regular Nokia's feature phone. There is a D-Pad in middle similar to most of the feature phones in India. The keypad starts with shortcuts keys for MyJio, Jio Live TV, Jio video and Jio Music placed just below the display. The phone comes with T9 keypad and also has a dedicated button for torchlight.

According to the previous reports, Jio is working on a new category of phones which could help it tap the rural and tier-III markets for its mobile business and network. These phones will be feature phones but will support 4G connectivity, complete with the VoLTE feature that will help users make calls using the cellular network.

Reportedly, Jio could launch these VoLTE enabled phones with a price starting as low as Rs 999. According to an ET report, Reliance is working on two feature phones priced at about Rs 1,000 and Rs 1,500 which are likely to hit the market by March this year.

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Jio beats Airtel, now fastest among all 4G services: TRAI data

Reliance Jio beat Airtel, Vodafone and others, becoming the fastest among all 4G service providers in India in December 2016, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. TRAI's MySpeed portal had previously in October revealed that Reliance Jio was the slowest 4G service provider in India.

TRAI's MySpeed online portal, unlike its Android and iOS app, doesn't test the speed of an individual connection. It, instead, shows you the data of tests conducted across the country.

In order to check Jio's speed performance you will need to select 'Jio' as an operator, 4G as technology, and then compare the network with other (all) operators. The resulting graph, currently, shows Jio as having the highest average 4G download speed at 9.9Mbps with Airtel at second with 5.8Mbps. Vodafone, meanwhile, stands fifth with 4.2Mbps download speed.

The graph for average upload speed shows, however, shows Telenor as number one with 2.8Mbps while Jio follows closely at second position with 2.6Mbps.

The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited subsidiary recently announced the Jio Happy New Year Offer for all existing and new users that "extends free voice, data, video call, SMS and Jio apps till March 31, 2017." The Happy New Year Offer basically is an extension to Jio's Welcome Offer that ended on December 3, 2016.

"Customers who buy Jio SIM cards December 4, 2016 onwards will be part of the Happy New Year Offer, while existing users who signed up for Jio Welcome Offer will automatically be moved to the new offer effective from 1st January 2017," the company said.

The earlier data limit of 4GB was brought down to 1GB after Jio announced the Happy New Year Offer.

"You can consume 1GB data a day on Jio's True 4G network. Post 1 GB you can browse unlimited data at 128 kbps," it added.

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