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The new JioPhone 2 and the broadband service that’s been in the pipeline for months were unveiled at the 5 July Reliance 41st AGM (Annual General Meeting).
But the biggest announcement of the event, spearheaded by Reliance head Mukesh Ambani, was that of the introduction of WhatsApp for the JioPhone. This feature will also be available on the upcoming JioPhone 2.
The messaging platform will be rolled out on the JioPhone starting 15 August, along with other applications like YouTube and Facebook.
The company also announced that Jio currently has a user base of 215 million users, a number that has grown prodigiously over the past couple of months.
In February this year, Jio began offering support for Facebook. The new Facebook app for JioPhone supports push notifications, videos, and links to external content. The app is also optimised to successfully accommodate the cursor function on the JioPhone, which runs on the Kai OS platform, one of the few devices to support this operating system.
This new version of the Facebook app has been built specially for Jio KaiOS, a web based operating system designed for JioPhone.
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