RELIANCE JIO PHONE 3 PRICE IN INDIA

Reliance Jio Phone 3 smartphone runs on the Android v8.1 (Oreo) operating system. The phone is powered by Quad-core, 1.4 GHz processor. It runs on the MediaTek Chipset. It has 2 GB RAM and 64 GB internal storage.

Reliance Jio Phone 3 smartphone has an IPS LCD display. The screen has a resolution of HD (720 x 1280 pixels) and 294 PPI pixel density. On the camera front, the buyers get a 2 MP Front Camera and on the rear, there's a 5 MP camera with features like Digital Zoom. It is backed by a 2800 mAh battery. Connectivity features in the smartphone include WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Volte, and more.

RELIANCE JIO PHONE 3 PRICE IN INDIA

Reliance Jio Phone 3 smartphone price in India is likely to be Rs 1,228. Reliance Jio Phone 3 is rumored to be launched in the country on January 24, 2020 (Unofficial).

Reliance jio phone 3 Infocomm Limited, d/b/a jio phone 3, is an Indian telecommunications company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It operates a national LTE network with coverage across all 22 telecom circles. It does not offer 2G or 3G service, and instead uses only voice over LTE to provide voice service on its 4G network.

jio phone 3 soft-launched on 27 December 2015 with a beta for partners and employees, and became publicly available on 5 September 2016. As of 31 October 2019, it is the second-largest mobile network operator in India and the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the world with over 364.48 million subscribers.[4][9] It is also the fourth largest provider of fixed telephony in the Country.

In September 2019, jio phone 3 launched a fiber to the home service, offering home broadband, television, and telephone services.

History

jio phone 3's headquarters in RCP, Navi Mumbai

The company was registered in Ambawadi, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) on 15 February 2007 as Reliance jio phone 3 Infocomm Limited. In June 2010, Reliance Industries (RIL) bought a 95% stake in Infotel Broadband Services Limited (IBSL) for ₹4,800 crores (US$690 million). Although unlisted, IBSL was the only company that won broadband spectrum in all 22 circles in India in the 4G auction that took place earlier that year.[10] Later continuing as RIL's telecom subsidiary, Infotel Broadband Services Limited was renamed as Reliance jio phone 3 Infocomm Limited (RJIL) in January 2013.[11]

In June 2015, jio phone 3 announced that it would start its operations throughout the country by the end of 2015.[12] However, four months later in October, the company postponed the launch to the first quarter of the financial year 2016–2017.[13]

Later, in July 2015, a PIL filed in the Supreme Court by an NGO called the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, through Prashant Bhushan, challenged the grant of a pan-India license to jio phone 3 by the Government of India. The PIL also alleged that the firm was being allowed to provide voice telephony along with its 4G data service, by paying an additional fee of just ₹165.8 crores (US$24 million) which was arbitrary and unreasonable, and contributed to a loss of ₹2,284.2 crores (US$330 million) to the exchequer.[14][15] The Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT), however, explained that the rules for 3G and BWA spectrum didn't restrict BWA winners from providing voice telephony. As a result, the PIL was revoked, and the accusations were dismissed.[16]

The 4G services were launched internally on 27 December 2015. The company commercially launched its 4G services on 5 September 2016.[7] Within the first month, jio phone 3 announced that it had acquired 16 million subscribers.[17] jio phone 3 crossed 50 million subscriber mark in 83 days since its launch,[18] subsequently crossing 100 million subscribers on 22 February 2017.[19] By October 2017 it had about 130 million subscribers.[20]

Partnerships

jio phone 3 shares spectrum with Reliance Communications. The sharing deal is for 800 MHz bands across seven circles other than the 10 circles for which jio phone 3 already owns.[24]

In September 2016, jio phone 3 signed a pact with BSNL for intra-circle roaming which would enable users of the operators to use each other's 4G and 2G spectrum in national roaming mode.[25]

In February 2017, jio phone 3 announced a partnership with Samsung to work on LTE - Advanced Pro and 5G.[26]

Products and services

Mobile broadband

The company launched its 4G broadband services throughout India in September 2016.[13] It was slated to release in December 2015 after some reports said that the company was waiting to receive final permits from the government.[27] jio phone 3 offers fourth-generation (4G) data and voice services, along with peripheral services like instant messaging and streaming movies and music.[28]

jio phone 3Fiber

In August 2018, jio phone 3 began to test a new triple-play fiber to the home service known tentatively as jio phone 3 GigaFiber, including broadband internet with speeds ranging from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps, as well as television and landline telephone services.[29][30]

In August 2019, it was announced that the service would officially launch on 5 September 2019 as jio phone 3Fiber, in honor of the company's third anniversary.[31][32][33] jio phone 3 also announced plans to offer streaming of films still in theatres ("First Day First Show") to eligible jio phone 3Fiber subscribers.

The company has a network of more than 250,000 km of fiber optic cables in the country, over which it will be partnering with local cable operators to get broader connectivity for its broadband services.

Devices

jio phone 3 has also marketed co-branded mobile phones. LYF smartphones

Main article: LYF

An image of LYF WATER 2 phone with IPS display.

In June 2015, jio phone 3 entered into an agreement with domestic handset maker Intex to supply 4G handsets capable of voice over LTE (VoLTE).[38] However, in October 2015, jio phone 3 announced that it would be launching its own mobile handset brand named LYF.

On 25 January 2016, the company launched its LYF smartphone[42] series starting with Water 1, through its chain of electronic retail outlets, Reliance Retail.[43] Three more handset models have been released so far, namely Water 2,[44] Earth 1,[45] and Flame 1.

jio phone 3 Phone

Illustration of a jio phone 3 Phone

jio phone 3Phone is a line of feature phones marketed by jio phone 3. The first model, released in August 2017 (with public pre-orders beginning 24 August 2017), was positioned as an "affordable" LTE-compatible feature phone. It runs the KaiOS platform (derived from the defunct Firefox OS) and includes a 2.4-inch display, a dual-core processor, 4 GB of internal storage, near-field communication support, a suite of jio phone 3-branded apps (including the voice assistant Hellojio phone 3), and a jio phone 3-branded application store. It also supports a "TV cable" accessory for output to an external display.

In July 2018, the company unveiled the jio phone 3Phone 2, an updated model in a keyboard bar form factor with a QWERTY keyboard and horizontal display. jio phone 3 also announced that Facebook, WhatsApp, and YouTube apps would become available for the two phones.[51]

jio phone 3 net WiFi

Prior to its pan-India launch of 4G data and telephony services, the firm has started providing free Wi-Fi hotspot services in cities throughout India including Surat, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh,[52] Indore, Jabalpur, Dewas, and Ujjain[53] in Madhya Pradesh, select locations of Mumbai in Maharashtra,[54] Kolkata in West Bengal,[55] Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh,[56] Bhubaneswar in Odisha,[57] Mussoorie in Uttarakhand,[58] Collectorate's Office in Meerut,[59] and at MG Road in Vijayawada[60] among others.

In March 2016, jio phone 3 started providing free Wi-Fi internet to spectators at six cricket stadiums hosting the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 matches. 

Jio phone 3 apps

jio phone 3 sim card pouch as distributed by Reliance jio phone 3 Infocomm

In May 2016, jio phone 3 launched a bundle of multimedia apps on Google Play as part of its upcoming 4G services. While the apps are available to download for everyone, a user will require a jio phone 3 SIM card to use them. Additionally, most of the apps are in the beta phase.[62] Notable apps include:

jio phone 3 Chat - an instant messaging app

jio phone 3 Cinema - online HD video library

jio phone 3 Cloud - cloud-based backup tool

jio phone 3Mags - e-reader for magazines

jio phone 3Money Wallet - online payments/wallet app

jio phone 3Saavn (earlier, jio phone 3Music) - for online and offline music streaming in English and Indian languages

jio phone 3Security - security app[68]

jio phone 34GVoice (earlier, jio phone 3Join) - VoLTE phone simulator[69]

Myjio phone 3 - manage jio phone 3 account and digital services associated with it

Affordable 4G phones

Reliance jio phone 3 has partnered with Google to manufacture "affordable" 4G handsets. These phones will run exclusively on jio phone 3 networks. The two companies are also working on developing software for smart-TV services. Both were expected to launch in 2017.[72]

jio phone 3Fi

jio phone 3 has also launched Wi-Fi routers by the name jio phone 3Fi.[73]

Branding and marketing

On December 24, 2015, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was appointed as jio phone 3's brand ambassador.

Pokémon Go

Location-based AR game Pokémon Go was launched in India in December 2016 in collaboration with jio phone 3 in which hundreds of jio phone 3 stores and other Reliance marts and shopping malls like Reliance Trends and Reliance Digital became Sponsored PokéStops and Gyms.

Reception of jio phone 3 Prime

By July, more than 125 million jio phone 3 customers had opted for jio phone 3 Prime. The last date for registration to jio phone 3 Prime membership was 31 March 2017. This was extended until 15 April 2017 along with with an introduction of a new offer, "jio phone 3 Summer Surprise", which gave customers three months of free services. On 6 April 2017, TRAI advised jio phone 3 to withdraw this offer.

Controversies

Issue with incumbents

In September 2016, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) summoned jio phone 3 and the country's existing telecom operators like Airtel, Vodafone, and Idea Cellular to meet and discuss an issue regarding the interconnection between the operators. This was a result after jio phone 3 complained to TRAI and Department of Telecom (DoT) about other operators not honoring their commercial agreements to let jio phone 3 use their network resources. The company further added that the operators are trying to sabotage its entry into the telecom scene. However, DoT dismissed the request and directed TRAI to help settle the dispute amicably. Moreover, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) requested TRAI to include all the operators in the discussion instead of the three.

The incumbent operators had previously approached the country's PMO to reiterate their stance they "are in no way obliged or in any position to entertain jio phone 3's requests for interconnection points as they do not have either the network or the financial resources to terminate the latter's humongous volumes of potentially asymmetric voice traffic." Responding to this, Mukesh Ambani, owner of jio phone 3, said, "All operators have publicly said last week that they will provide this (interconnect and MNP). So, we are waiting. These are all great companies. They have their own reputations to protect. I am confident they won't violate the law." Commenting about number portability, he added, "The number belongs to the consumer. No operator can cause trouble if they want to change operators."[80] However, on 12 September 2016, Idea Cellular agreed to allow jio phone 3 to use 196 of its interconnection access points.[81]