Reliance Jio LYF 4G Water 1, Water 2,
Water 3 & Earth 1
Reliance has big plans for its 4G
network services in India, which we have been hearing for a long time now. But
the time had finally come when Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industry forays into
the communication platform, the Reliance Jio. In similar news, the Reliance
Retail, a retail subsidiary of Reliance Industries is going to launch four new
LTE-enabled smartphones in India.
These 4G smartphones were expected in
the festive season of Diwali, which was last month. It is never too late to
announce anything new these days. Now it has been stated that the smartphones
under LYF brand have been launched. There are total four smartphones aptly
named; LYF Water 1, LYF Water 2, LYF Water 3 and LYF Earth 1 are released by
the brand.
Currently, these handsets are rolled out
to its employees and would soon be available to the customers. The company
plans to sell these handsets via their Reliance Retail stores as well as online.
The partnership talks are going on with leading eCommerce websites like
Flipkart and Snapdeal.
These handsets are powered by an
Octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor, which clocks at 1.5 GHz and it has a support
of Adreno 405 GPU while the RAM is unknown for these handsets. Sporting a 10
point multi-touch screen, LYF Water 3 would be costing around Rs 16,799. Other
three handsets would be have 5 points multi-touch screen, they all would be
differentiated by the screen, but unfortunately, the details are little scarce.
All the LYF branded smartphones would
have great camera configuration ranging from 13 MP to 15 MP for rear cameras
while the front camera would be at least 5MP. These handsets are powered by
Android Lollipop, but only Water 1 and Earth 1 would be coming with 5.1.1
version while it would be coming up with 5.0.2 version. You would be seeing a
lot of pre-installed services in the form of Jio apps on these handsets.
Regarding connectivity, the devices
would be supporting all GSM bands and certain limited bands like UMTS WCDMA,
LTE-FDD band3 and LTE- TDD BAND40. They also support Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and
microUSB port. The battery capacities that you see on these handsets would be
ranging from 2,400 mAh and 3,500 mAh. The LYF Water 1 and LYF Water 2 are priced at
Rs 17,399 and Rs 15,499 respectively while the LYF Earth 1 would be available
for sale at Rs 25,800.