Reliance Jio unveiled its first 4G VoLTE feature
phone – JioPhone yesterday. The company revealed some of the features of the
phone, but it did not confirm complete specifications at the event or on its
site. Today Qualcomm India confirmed that the phone is powered by its latest
205 Mobile Platform which is a 1.1GHz Dual Core SoC with integrated X5 LTE
Global Mode modem for VoLTE and multimode dual SIM. The Lava 4G Connect M1,
which was the launched as the first VoLTE feature phone is powered by a
Quad-core Spreadtrum SP9820A Processor.
At the announcement of the chip Qualcomm said that
it has partnered with OEM, ODM, and Operators such as Borqs, CKT, Flex,
FIH/Megafone, HiPad, Huiye, Micromax, Reliance Jio, TCL, TSM, Uniscope,
Viroyal/Feixun.
The JioPhone has a 2.4-inch QVGA
screen, Alphanumeric keypad, 4-way Navigation key, microSD slot, rear camera,
torch light, FM Radio, comes with 22 major Indian languages and supports voice
commands. It comes pre-loaded with Jio
Music, Jio Cinema and Jio TV apps. It also has NFC support, and tap-and-pay
payments through UPI, credit and debit cards will be enabled through software
update.
The JioPhone user beta testing will begin from
August 15th and pre-booking through My Jio app and Jio retailers will be
available from August 24th with shipping starting in September.
