Reliance Jio Phones: List of VoLTE Mobiles That Will Work on the Jio Network

    
Reliance Jio services will be open to everyone from Monday, and you can get a SIM and enjoy free usage until December 31, until the plans kick in from next year. The entire Reliance Jio network runs on data, which means even voice calls are data-powered.
What this means for you is that you will need a VoLTE capable phone to make calls on the Jio network. You can still use 4G phones that support Jio's LTE band, but you will not be able to make calls unless your phone supports VoLTE. Reliance Jio is offering app-based workarounds to let you call any number on such cases, but to enjoy the true Jio experience, you need to have a VoLTE use to make the most of the network.

We have compiled a list of VoLTE capable phones. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list by any means, and it's definitely possible we may have missed some VoLTE-capable handsets that are available in the market. But, this should be a good starting point if you are looking for a new phone to use with a Reliance Jio SIM.
(Also see: How to Get and Activate Reliance Jio SIM Card)
If you believe we've missed a VoLTE capable phone that's available in India, let us know via the comments and we will update our list. Apart from this list, do note that the entire rangle of Reliance Retail's Lyf-branded smartphones are VoLTE-enabled and ready to use on the Jio network.
You should also refer to Reliance Jio's own list of phones that support VoLTE.
Here are VoLTE-capable phones for the full Reliance Jio experience:

Note that this list is based on specifications listed by various companies - we've not tested compatibility of each phone with Reliance Jio network ourselves. You are advised to verify functionality of respective phones with Reliance Jio customer care before making a purchase, and check Jio's own list of VoLTE phones as well, though it doesn't look exhaustive by any means.
What other VoLTE-enabled phones are available in India? Let everyone know via the comments.

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Jio set to launch its own VR app in 2018

LONDON: The new entrant in the telecom industry, Reliance Jio, is planning to launch its own Virtual Reality (VR) app in 2018 and is hoping to collaborate with experts at Birmingham City University in England, the university said.

Aiming to explore potential partnerships in the future, the Head and Creative Director of Jio Studios, Aditya Bhat and Ankit Sharma respectively, visited the university on Wednesday to learn more about how it is training the next generation of virtual reality (VR) professionals.

The Founder and Managing Director of philmCGI, Anand Bhanushali, also spent time with senior academics of the university as part of a visit organised by the UK's Department of International Trade.

Based out of both Mumbai and Pune, philmCGI is an animation studio where some 90 artists provide computer-generated images and visual effects services in films and television for some of the biggest studios in Europe and Asia, and is also expanding   its offer in VR and Augmented Reality (AR).

"Today we have discussed a number of opportunities for collaboration," said Bhanushali.

Jio announces triple cashback offer for Jio Prime members

MUMBAI: Reliance Jio has rolled out a slew of cashback offers and discount coupons for its prepaid subscribers in an aggressive move to retain and attract users, dampening hopes of an early return to pricing stability in the telecom industry.

After triggering a massive price war last year, the Mukesh Ambani-owned company had in October reduced the tenure of its popular Rs 399 prepaid plan from 84 days to 70 days. This had led analysts to hope that the blood-letting in the industry

But Reliance Jio struck again on Thursday. The company unveiled cashback offers on every recharge of Rs 399, which include eight vouchers of Rs 50 each that will be credited to the ‘MyJio’ digital wallet of all Jio Prime members. These vouchers can be used to get discounts of Rs 50 each on any subsequent recharge, or data topup, bringing down the effective tariff.

In addition, subscribers will get vouchers worth Rs 300 credited into Jio’s partner mobile wallets such as,  AmazonPay, AxisPay, FreeCharge, Mobikwik, Paytm and PhonePe

In addition, subscribers will get vouchers worth Rs 300 credited into Jio’s partner mobile wallets such as AmazonPay, AxisPay, FreeCharge, Mobikwik, Paytm and PhonePe.

Moreover, subscribers will get vouchers of up to Rs 1,899 for shopping on ecommerce platforms and for discounts on flight tickets on specific portals. The offers are valid from November 10 to November 25. Analysts and experts say these schemes are likely to compel Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India to respond. “ ..

“This is a discount and not a freebie but will again be a setback for the industry which will now try to catch up,” said an analyst at a global brokerage, who did not want to be named. 

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) director general Rajan Mathews said since this was a promotional offer limited to a class of people within its customer base, it didn’t violate Trai regulations and predicted that more such plans could be expected going forward as telcos seek to retain customers.

“Jio’s entry tariff plans had forced competition to match. Competition doesn’t always match, it does better. And then the new player goes one-up,” said Mathews. Shares of
Bharti Airtel closed at Rs 503.90, up 1.77 per cent , while those of Idea Cellular closed at Rs 96.65 a piece, down 1.88 per cent on the BSE on Thursday.

The new offers are also designed to protect Jio’s July-September monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) of . Rs 54.

“The company has to maintain its ARPU, retain Prime customers and keep cash coming in. These offers will help them achieve that,” said Sanjiv Bhasin, executive VP, markets and corporate affairs,  at brokerage IIFL. Prashant Singhal of EY said that the move was a good way to acquire more customers. “It also opens doors for more partnerships within the digital ecosystem, which can propel people to use data-rich services and e-payment platforms,” he added.

Jio’s cashback offers comes days after incumbents Airtel and Vodafone launched their own offers for their customers. Bharti Airtel launched . Rs 499 per month ‘Infinity’ plan with unlimited free outgoing calls on national roaming and unlimited local and STD calls, bundled with 20 GB 4G/3G data, while Vodafone launched a host of data rollover options among others for its subscribers on Tuesday. 

Reliance Jio effect: Airtel launches new postpaid, prepaid plans starting at Rs 349

For postpaid users, Airtel has essentially overhauled the existing Rs 499 plan.

The data war is endless, and we sort of like it. Soon after Vodafone India launched some new postpaid RED plans in the country, Airtel has now joined course with new postpaid and prepaid plans. Postpaid Airtel subscribers will now get unlimited free outgoing calls on national roaming along with unlimited local and STD calls, and 20GB of 4G/3G data at Rs 499 per month with Infinity Postpaid plan.
Essentially, this Airtel plan has existed earlier as well, however, the offerings of the plan have now been overhauled. The new plan also offers free Airtel Secure device protection plan for smartphones against physical damage and malware. Customers will also get free subscription to Wynk Music and Airtel TV.
As Airtel is doing with other existing plans, it will also carry forward the unused data to the next billing cycle with its Data rollover feature. Customers can accumulate up to 200GB data. ALSO READ: Jio effect: Idea Cellular rolls out Rs 398 plan with unlimited calling, up to 70GB data

There is also a new prepaid plan, wherein for Rs 448, users will get free roaming, unlimited local/STD calls, unlimited outgoing calls on national roaming and 70GB of data. The pack is available to all customers across India on any 4G/3G/2G device. Customers can activate the pack by visiting any Airtel retail outlet or through MyAirtel App.
Additionally, Airtel has also refreshed its Rs 349 plan to offer more data at the existing price. User will now get 1.5GB data per day along with unlimited local and STD calls and 3,000 free SMS. The plan comes with a validity of 28 days. ALSO READ: Reliance Jio planning to launch broadband network, TV service early next year: Report

Jio

Reliance Jio promises to shape the future of India by providing end-to-end digital solutions for businesses, institutions and households and seamlessly bridging the rural-urban divide.

Home to the world’s second largest population of 1.2 billion, India is a young nation with 63% of its population under the age of 35 years. It has a fast growing digital audience with 800 million mobile connections and over 200 million internet users. Reliance thoroughly believes in India’s potential to lead the world with its capabilities in innovation. Towards that end, Reliance envisages creation of a digital revolution in India.
Reliance Jio aims to enable this transformation by creating not just a cutting-edge voice and broadband network, but also a powerful ecosystem on which a range of rich digital services will be enabled – a unique green-field opportunity.
The three-pronged focus on broadband networks, affordable smartphones and the availability of rich content and applications has enabled Jio to create an integrated business strategy from the very beginning, and today, Jio is capable of offering a unique combination of telecom, high speed data, digital commerce, media and payment services.

A Vision That Touches All

 Reliance’s vision for India is that broadband and digital services will no longer be a luxury item. Rather, Reliance envisions an India where these are basic necessities to be consumed in abundance by consumers and small businesses alike, as much in far-flung villages as in our largest cities. The initiatives are truly aligned with the Government of India's ‘Digital India’ vision for our nation.

Affordable Devices: Jio has worked with all the leading device manufacturers of the world to ensure availability of 4G LTE smartphones across all price points – from ultra-premium models on one hand, to entry level models on the other.
Digital Communication: The application Jio4GVoice brings the 4G communication suite to all smartphones. With its RCS (Rich Communication Services) features like Enriched calling, Chat, File share and Unified Messaging, it redefines the calling and messaging experience. It also enables Jio’s cutting edge voice and video call service on non-VoLTE smartphones.
Digital Currency: Jio envisions a new India which will use digital currency instead of paper money for a more secure and convenient way to transact. Jio Money, Jio’s digital currency and digital payments business, will play a crucial role in this by offering a platform for ubiquitous, affordable and secure digital payments.
Jio Drive: Micro and small businesses will soon have access to cutting-edge cloud storage technologies which were once affordable to big companies only, giving them a new edge to compete on a global landscape. Jio Drive is an application that brings powerful cloud capabilities to every smartphone. Using Jio Drive, anyone can store, sync and share any content between their own devices and also with their friends.
Digital Education: Teachers and students from far flung areas can connect with each other, crowd-source knowledge and adapt new age learning techniques and thus lift the level of education to a completely different plane.
Digital Healthcare: Expert medical advice would be available anytime, anywhere - with medical practitioners able to grow their practice without constraint, and provide quality of life to the crores that make up our country.
Digital Entertainment and social connectivity: Jio Chat is a powerful communication application that integrates chat, voice, video calling, conferencing, file sharing, photo sharing and much more. Jio Play enables users to watch HD TV anytime, anywhere on any device, from hundreds of channels, across categories and languages. Jio Beats is a premier digital music streaming service that gives instant access to millions of songs and curated playlists. Jio Mags and Jio News provide access to the most popular collection of magazines and news from leading publishing houses across multiple languages.
Digital Entrepreneurship: Jio is building is a powerful platform on which a range of rich digital products and services can be enabled - digital currency, digital commerce, digital education, digital healthcare, e-governance, Smart Cities, M2M and the Internet of Things. It does not matter whether these services are created by Jio itself, its ecosystem partners or anyone globally. Reliance is committed to the principles of Net Neutrality.

Laying the Foundation for the Future

Reliance Jio is creating the most extensive and future-proof network in India, and perhaps, in the world. It will provide next generation legacy-free digital services over an end-to-end all-IP network, which can be seamlessly upgraded even to 5G and beyond. In addition to the existing pan India 2300 MHz spectrum and 1800 MHz in 14 circles, Jio invested over Rs 10,000 crore during this year's auction to acquire 800 MHz spectrum in 10 circles and 1800 MHz spectrum in 6 circles. This brings the cumulative investment in spectrum assets to nearly Rs 34,000 crores. Jio now has the largest footprint of liberalized spectrum in the country, acquired in an extremely cost effective manner.

Reliance Jio has laid more than 2.5 lakh kilometres of fibre-optic cables, covering 18,000 cities and over one lakh villages, with the aim of covering 100% of the nation’s population by 2018. It has an initial end-to-end capacity to serve in excess of 100 million wireless broadband and 20 million Fibre-to-Home customers. Reliance Jio has also built nearly half-a-million square feet of cloud data centres and a multi-Terabit capacity international network.

The infrastructure is being built in partnership with some of the world’s most technologically advanced companies. 

Reliance Jio is offering iPhone X for Rs 26,700. Yes, but there’s a twist. Here’s how to avail it
Mumbai: With its new iPhone X Apple is setting the ambitious goal of reinventing the smartphone, again. The iPhone X is a gorgeous device due to its striking bezel-less design and flowing edge-to-edge OLED display.
Apple has become the world's most valuable technology company by refining existing technologies, like the smartphone, and making them easy, fun, and fashionable.
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What, if we tell you that you can avail the iPhone X for as low as Rs 26,700. Yes! You read it right if you believe avail Reliance Jio's buyback scheme. However, there’s a catch! This scheme comes with its own set of terms and conditions.
Warning: If you cannot take good care of your phone, this offer is not for you.
Here’s all the term and conditions:
You have to give the iPhone X back after a year to be eligible for the buyback. Remember, the phone needs to be in mint condition.
Secondly, you have to opt for a mandatory Rs 799 per month plan. Customers can avail 90GB (3GB per day) of 4G data and unlimited calling.
Customers can get voice/data services for a whole year by paying Rs 9,999 in one go at the time of enrollment.
You will have to pay the entire Rs 89,000 in one go while buying the iPhone X. You have to pay Rs 1, 02,000 of you are opting for the higher-end 256GB variant.
You will receive Rs 62,300 back when you return the smartphone after one year of meeting all the requirements.
The offer makes perfect sense for gadget gurus who like updating their smartphones very often.
The buyback offer is valid for Reliance retail stores, Jio.com, MyJio or Amazon.in. You can enroll your smartphone for the buyback offer before 31st December 2017.
But still, if you want to get this lucrative deal, here’s how you can avail it:
1. Visit official website - Jio.com
2. Locate the 'iPhone X 70% buyback' banner on the homepage
3. Click on 'Enroll for buyback'.
4. Enter your iPhone X's IMEI number and your registered mobile number
5. Click on 'I accept terms & conditions' and then on 'submit' at the bottom of the page.
6. Congratulations! You are done
Apple introduced its much-awaited iPhone X globally, including in India, on Friday amid heavy demand.
In India, the phone was on pre-orders since October 27 on Flipkart, Amazon and authorised Apple retailers. However, due to the paucity of stock, the pre-orders were put on hold in many places, including Flipkart.

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JioTV for PC on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista & Mac Free Download

JioTV for PC is a TV channel streaming app with lots of supporting features in it. This app makes you enjoy your favorite TV show anywhere and anytime. JioTV for Windows has a wide range of TV channel collection and all most all the popular channels that everybody will be really fond to watch are available in this app. The content in this app is broadcasted which has previous 7 days of the telecast, so now you don’t have to miss a single telecast of your favorite TV show.
While you are watching your best-loved TV show on JioTV, you can pause and play it any time as you like. This feature is designed so that the user can continue enjoying their TV shows as per their convenience. The content in this app is organized according to different genres, languages, channels or program wise.

Download JioTV for PC on Windows 8.1/10/8/7/xp/vista & Mac Laptop
Jio TV on Laptop is supported with multilingual interface, so that users can find themselves comfortable while searching any TV show on this app. If you do not want to miss any particular show on JioTV, then just set a reminder and mark as a favorite, it notifies us about its upcoming telecast. There are four different varieties of picture quality among which the user can decide on which one to choose.
Share your preferred TV show with your friends and show what you are watching on JioTV.  Though this is a mobile app, I will give you a tutorial as how you can install JioTV on your computer as JioTV for PC is officially not available on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP & Vista and Mac Computer.
Key Features of JioTV for Laptop/Computer

• Spend your pastime with JioTV, watching your favorite TV channel.
• Content of any particular program as up to last 7 days of telecast.
• This app is supported with different languages.
• Pause and play your favorite program according to your comfort.
• Set reminder to watch the program on JioTV.
• Select the suitable picture quality as you wish to have a good watching experience.

Download JioTv for Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP & Vista and Mac Computer

Using Android Emulator you can install JioTV on your PC. Even though there are many
Android Emulators, I recommend you to choose BlueStacks Android Emulator since this one is found to be more popular and has a simple user interface. To download BlueStack on your PC you will require its setup file which you can get it by clicking on the link provided or from the official website. Download Bluestacks Offline Installer Setup file.
Then, once it is downloaded, click on the file and start the installation, latter when the process undergoes, mark the option appropriately by reading the on-screen instruction carefully. Then, based on your net speed, BlueStacks installation will get completed by copying its required program files. Here you are finish with the download of BlueStack on your PC.