A major part of the announcements revolving around Reliance Jio, made on July 5 during the Reliance Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Mumbai, was the next version of the JioPhone. To recall, the company had introduced the JioPhone at last year's Reliance AGM as a 4G enabled feature phone, which was also dubbed as "India ka smartphone" at the time. A year on, Mukesh D. Ambani has now revealed its successor as the JioPhone 2, a higher-end variant with a QWERTY keypad and a horizontal viewing display. What's more, the new smart feature phone also comes with dual-SIM connectivity. The JioPhone 2 will be available for purchase starting August 15 at a price of Rs 2,999.
As for what the JioPhone 2 has to offer to its users, the device will come with a 2.4-inch QVGA display placed on top of a QWERTY keypad that comes with a 4-way navigation key. It will run on the same KaiOS as the JioPhone and will also support Facebook, YouTube as well as WhatsApp. As for its memory, the JioPhone 2 will come with a 512MB RAM and a 4GB internal storage, which will further be expandable up to 128GB using an external microSD. The device is backed by a 2000 mAh battery and comes with connectivity options including VoLTE, VoWiFi, FM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC and more. As for its optics, the JioPhone 2 will come with a 2-megapixel camera at the back and a VGA camera at the front.