Here’s How Airtel 4G Smartphone Fares Against Reliance JioPhone

Bharti Airtel has finally announced its rumoured 4G VoLTE smartphone to compete with the Reliance JioPhone. For the Airtel 4G Smartphone, the company partnered with Karbonn and announced a smartphone named Karbonn A40 Indian.

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The Airtel 4G Smartphone is effectively priced at Rs. 1,399, but you’ve to pay Rs. 2,899 up front while purchasing the device. Airtel will refund Rs. 1,500 after 36 months, but you have to constantly recharge the device to get Rs. 1,500 refund amount, which makes the device’s price as Rs. 1,399.

In contrast, JioPhone is effectively priced at Rs. 1,500, which will be fully refunded after three years. And users have to recharge with the Rs. 153 plan in order to get the refund amount. But Airtel 4G Smartphone and JioPhone’s terms and conditions differ a lot. Here’s how Airtel 4G Smartphone fares against JioPhone.

Specifications

First things first, the Airtel 4G Smartphone is a true smartphone that runs Android OS, while Reliance JioPhone is a feature phone that runs KaiOS. So, Airtel 4G Smartphone has an advantage over here because users can enjoy all the apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, etc, and the device also runs latest Android 7.0 Nougat OS.

And in JioPhone, the KaiOS still in nascent stages, and there are not many applications supported as of now such as YouTube, WhatsApp, etc. However, you get all the Jio’s digital apps such as JioTV, JioCinema, etc.

The Airtel 4G Smartphone comes with a 4-inch HD display, which is a touchscreen display, unlike the 2.3-inch QVGA display seen on the JioPhone. Internals are also better on the Airtel 4G Smartphone such as the 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, and yeah, you can use the device in any condition with any network-2G/3G/4G.