Here's the first look and unboxing of Reliance JIO 4G VOLTE Feature Phone. The reliance Jio Phone takes us back to the sleek candybar styled functional phones, with 2.4 Inch QVGA screen, T9 Keyboard, rubber buttons and two cameras. The JIO phone comes with dual core processor and 4 GB RAM, packs a Nano Sim Card slot with a microSD slots that can increase the storage of the phone to up to 128Gb and uses a 3.5mm headphone jack. The phone comes with 2000mAh battery that boasts of an astonishing 15 day battery backup with regular usage.
Reliance Industries has officially started delivering the highly awaited Rs 1500 4G phone. The phone that was officially announced by RIL Chairman, Mr Mukesh Ambani, earlier in July will be delivered to almost six million customers by this Diwali.
The launch of the Reliance JIO phone will be a game changer for first time 4G internet users. Let’s take a look at some of the salient features of the JIO phone:

Jio Phone Looks and design
The reliance Jio Phone takes us back to the sleek candybar styled functional phones like the Nokia’s and the Samsung’s that we used to love. The phone comes in a sturdy plastic body that fits comfortably in your hands and pocket. The phone only has a small screen and keyboard but surprising view clarity considering it’s a 2.4 Inch QVGA screen. The phone supports the T9 Keyboard with rubber buttons, might take a bit getting used to for each but after a couple of hours of using the phone we found typing messages easy and effortless.
The Phone boasts of two cameras – A 2 MP back camera and a .3MP VGA Front Camera allowing JIO users to do video calls.
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The JIO phone uses a simple 3.5mm headphone jack while also boasting of decently loud audio speaker. The phone comes with a micro usb charging port. The phone comes with 2000mAh battery that boasts of an astonishing 15 day battery backup with regular usage. The phone also packs a Nano Sim Card slot with a microSD slots that can increase the storage of the phone to up to 128Gb.
The Jio Phone is locked on to the Jio Network, and the special plan allows users to make unlimited calls and text messages. We did not experience any call drops while using the phone for making video calls and voice calls. The phone itself did not hang up on us trying to open various JIO apps courtesy its dual core processor and 4 GB RAM.
The Jio Phone runs on KaiOS which is a new mobile operating system. You get a grid-style menu of app icons which are easy enough to understand. Basic functionality like calling is super-fast and the phone could place a call very quickly on the Jio VoLTE network. The phone also has the emergency button call as made mandatory by the court for emergency situations.
Jio Apps are preinstalled, including JioMusic, JioTV, JioCinema and more. JioStore is the app store which lists eight Jio services including the preinstalled ones. Popular apps such as Facebook and YouTube aren’t available just yet but are expected to arrive soon. You can use the inbuilt Web browser to access both Facebook and YouTube without any problem. It can handle basic voice commands to let you call or open a message to contacts, or launch apps. We tried it out in Hindi as well as English, and found that it did deliver results in both languages.
Jio Phone Connectivity
The Jio phone has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth along with geolocation. It also has quick toggles that can be used from the main screen. The battery seemed to perform well during our time with the phone. We also used both the cameras and found that we needed a very steady hand or photos would come out blurry. Photos have a resolution of 1600x1200, while videos are recorded at up to 720x480 pixels. The front camera takes 640x480 pixel stills and up to 352x288 videos. We`ll have more details on all these aspects of the Jio Phone and more in our full review, coming up soon.
The phone easily looks like a brilliant device for first time users to experience the power of 4G and looks like will be able to get the next billion people to experience 4G like never before.
Reliance JIO has continuously disrupted the mobile carrier space by introducing cheaply priced plans making existing players like Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and BSNL lower their own tariff rates to existing and new customers. Reliance Jio has enabled customers to experience true 4G by offering unlimited consumption at nominal rates.
Users all across the country – Metro’s to small towns have quickly grasped to the free internet services like bees on honey and the end users seem to be the likely winners in this war of data connectivity
