Jio Platforms has quietly launched its first laptop, getting into into a brand new product class because the Indian telecom large aggressively expands its choices.
The laptop, known as JioBook, runs JioOS, a customized Android-based OS that has been “optimized for superior efficiency” and native languages help. The laptop, manufactured in India, is promoting at 15,799 Indian rupees, or $190 — with as much as $60 in reductions with sure banking and card companions.
The JioBook, which additionally ships bundled with a number of Jio apps and Microsoft 365 providers, has been within the works for at the very least two years. The corporate quietly demonstrated it at Indian Cell Congress commerce present occasion final month.
JioBook’s specs, as you’ll have guessed, aren’t very high-end. It sports activities an 11.6-inch HD show with a display screen decision of 1366 x 768. It’s powered by Qualcomm’s 64-bit, 2GHz octa-core processor and 2GB of RAM. However the laptop ships with an embedded Jio sim card, enabling out of the field help for Jio 4G LTE connectivity.
The agency says on its retailer web page that the JioBook options as much as 128GB of flash storage and might last as long as eight hours on a single a cost.
The laptop is the newest of a collection of companies Reliance, the Indian conglomerate and the mother or father agency of Jio Platforms, has entered lately. The agency, led by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, entered the telecom enterprise six years in the past and shortly grew to become the highest service supplier within the nation, because of the community’s cut-rate knowledge and voice tariffs.
Jio Platforms, which secured greater than $20 billion in funding from over 10 traders in 2020 together with Meta and Google, has additionally launched characteristic telephones and smartphones prior to now half decade. The corporate’s JioPhone Subsequent smartphone went on sale final yr. Jio Platforms has labored intently with Google to develop a customized Android working system for the smartphone.
The corporate seems to have formidable plans with the JioBook. Reuters, which scooped the laptop’s imminent unveiling plan earlier this month, stated Reliance plans to promote “a whole lot of 1000’s” of models by March.
Jio didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
