Welcome back to Gadgets 360's weekly roundup of all the tech news that you can use. Reliance Jio[1] has been in the limelight as usual - the company opened up bookings for the Jio Phone[2] last week and had to pause the process[3] after hitting "millions" of bookings. This week, we found out that the bookings crossed 6 million units in a day, and deliveries start from September 21[4], Navratri. If you were one of the people who booked a Jio Phone[5] last week, expect your handset to arrive sometime around then, though the deliveries will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The process to book a Jio Phone proved to be difficult for some as the demand crashed Jio's servers[6], but if you managed to book a phone, you can look up the Jio Phone delivery status[7] quite easily, both offline and online. Apart from that, you can also check the details on the MyJio app, or even use the app to transfer the Jio Phone booking.
The Jio Phone[8] is effectively free (you have to pay Rs. 1,500 up front, but this is fully refundable, provided you can return the handset to Jio after three years) and offers unlimited calling and 500MB data daily for just Rs. 153 a month, or Rs 309[9] with which you get 1GB data per day. If you plan to use the Jio Phone-TV Cable[10], called the JioMediaCable, which lets you mirror content playing on the phone directly on the big screen then you must buy the Rs. 309 recharge pack, though the cable is not for sale yet.
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