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Jio Phone Has No WhatsApp , Comes With 500MB Daily 4G Data Limit

Jio Phone Has No WhatsApp , Comes With 500MB Daily 4G Data Limit 3ca30

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 21 July 2017 18:44 IST

Highlights

Reliance Jio announced its Jio Phone feature phone on Friday
The unlimited data has a 500MB daily limit for high-speed access
Jio Phone does not WhatsApp ‘at the moment'

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The just Rs. 1,500 - which can be refunded in three years - it's one of the cheapest ways for people to get access to 4G data, and it's being backed up by special plans that sound really good on paper. However, there's some fine print that wasn't announced when the phone was revealed. 2t2ze

Although the fair usage policy. s can access only up to 500MB (half a gigabyte) of high-speed Internet data daily when paying for the Rs. 153 plan. After crossing that limit, you can still use Internet - hence the use of the word ‘unlimited - but the speeds will drop and will only reset at the end of the day.

Notably, with the Rs. 309 Jio plan - which Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani said will be 1GB of high-speed data per day, and that is for 56 days, so you get four times as much data.

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Also, although the JioPhone includes a number of apps - on stage, the Mann Ki Baat app was demonstrated, and we 200 million active s in India as of February 2017. Of course, Reliance Jio has its own chat platform, JioChat, so perhaps it sees the opportunity in reaching an audience that hasn't adopted WhatsApp already? We will find out.

As we get closer to August 24, when people can launch of Reliance Jio. At the time, announcing its Welcome Offer, the company made no announcement about the 4GB FUP limit that was in place at the time.

What's more, Reliance Jio talked about unlimited night usage, but didn't mention that this was only for a short three-hour window, from 2AM to 5AM. Reliance also talked about a rate of Rs. 50/ GB, but the actual pricing came to be a lot higher, for the vast majority of its plans.

The JioPhone launch seems to be following a similar pattern, and we're left to wonder what other fine print is going to turn up in the next couple of days.

The Jio Phone looks awesome but is there any catch? We discussed that on our weekly technology podcast Orbital, which you can subscribe to via Apple Podcasts or RSS or just listen to this episode by hitting the play button below.

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