Mumbai, July 5: Reliance Jio Phone got the much awaited update on Thursday as the telecom giant launched the three big applications - YouTube, Facebook and WhatsApp on the feature phone. Addressing the 41st Annual General Meet (AGM) of the Reliance Group today, Akash Ambani and Isha Ambani demonstrated how the three big apps would work on the voice command on the Jio Phone. Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube can be downloaded on the Jio Phone starting August 15.

Akash and Isha also announced the launch of Reliance's broadband service called the Jio Giga Fibre. "Gone are the days of Mbps, now it will be about Gbps," Isha Ambani said. "Your home will have wall-to-wall Wi-Fi coverage, every appliance, plug point, switch will become smart. You can have cameras giving you 24x7 security monitoring, alerts," Akash Ambani added.

RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani said that users can begin registering for the Jio Giga Fiber starting August 15.

The telecom giant also launched the Jio Giga TV Calling Service at the 41st AGM. The new service would enable calling from one Jio TV to another through the Jio network.

Another big announcement made at the Reliance AGM 2018 was the launch of Jio Phone 2. "Starting 15th August, we have another exciting offer for common Indians. They can purchase our Jio Phone2 at an introductory price of only Rs 2,999," Mukesh Ambani said.

Jio Giga Fiber

The Jio GigaFiber FTTH broadband service will be launched in 1,100 cities of India at once as part of the public roll-out of the service. It will bring high speed Internet with speeds up to 1 Gbps. The GigaFiber will enable Jio Giga TV calling service, through which users can make calls from TVs to other TVs, laptops and mobile phones. It will also bring along smart home accessories that will be installed. It will enable multi-party video conferencing from the comfort of living rooms of users.

JioPhone 2

The telecom giant also announced the launch of Jio Phone 2 at its 41st AGM. The phone with QWERTY keypad is priced at Rs 2,999 and has a four-way navigation keypad. The phone will come with advanced features and also have Jio schemes. The booking for the new phone will begin from August 15.

JioPhone 2 runs on KaiOS, the same operating system that powers the original JioPhone. The smart feature phone will have 2.4QVGA display, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM. The smartphone supports SD card for expandable storage up to 128GB.

JioPhone 2 has 2-megapixel rear camera and VGA front-facing camera. The phone supports dual-SIM, LTE, and VoLTE, VoWi-Fi.

Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced that Reliance Jio now has 215 million customers within 22 months of its launch. "Data usage has grown from 125 crore GB to more than 240 crore GB per month," he said addressing the AGM today.

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