5G Services, 4G JioPhone, And A Market Of 300 Million 2G Users
by Anand Parthasarathy - Jun 25, 2021 03:36 PM
Mukesh Ambani at the Reliance Jio AGM yesterday
Snapshot
New Jio handset to be ultra-affordable, with an Android version optimised for Indian users, will be available from Ganesh Chaturthi, 10 September 2021.
Desi features to include Indian languages, on-the-fly translation and talking screen made first-for-India, then for the world.
No, it was not a 5G handset as widely speculated. The media got that one wrong. Reliance stuck true to its tradition of unveiling a significant piece of gee-whiz Jio hardware at its annual general meeting (AGM) yesterday (24 June). But it resisted the temptation of jumping on the global 5G handset bandwagon.