Mukesh Ambani, owner of Reliance Industries (RIL), on Thursday, launched a high-end variant of the JioPhone, named JioPhone 2, which will be available at an introductory price of Rs 2,999 from August 15.

Ambani said the data usage has grown to 240 crore GB per month from 125 crore GB per month, voice usage has increased from 250 crore minutes to 530 crore minutes per day and video viewing has increased from 165 crore hours to 340 crore hours per month.

The new JioPhone 2 will feature horizontal screen viewing, QWERTY keypad, Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp.

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First Published:Jul 5, 2018 3:04 PM IST