JioPhone 3 to be launched on August 12 at its Annual General Meeting
Reliance Jio will launch the JioPhone 3 at its upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) on August 12.
Dubbed JioPhone 3, the new 4G smart feature phone will be powered by a MediaTek chipset and with support for 4G. Jio has been using Qualcomm and Unisoc chipsets for its JioPhones. MediaTek confirmed it is working with Reliance Jio .
The MediaTek-powered Reliance JioPhone will be commercially available in India in a few months. Jio is expected to unveil the device at the Annual General Meeting 2019. Jio’s initial plan was to work with MediaTek for a new Reliance Lyf phone running on Google’s Android Go platform. This plan was however scrapped and instead focused on the next smart feature phone.
JioPhone 3 will be an upgraded version of the existing JioPhone 2. JioPhone 2 sells in India for Rs 2,999. It comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM. The phone also has a microSD card slot for storage expansion. The smart feature phone sports a 2-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front camera.
Its connectivity options include dual SIM support, 4G VoLTE, FM Radio, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. JioPhone 2 is fuelled by a 2,000mAh battery. JioPhone and JioPhone 2 both come with Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube apps.
