JioPhone Will Finally Get YouTube App, But No Sign Of WhatsApp Yet
Aug. 20, 2018Launched last year, the 4G VoLTE-enabled JioPhone quickly soared up the popularity charts,becoming the best-selling feature-phonemodel in the country last year, and hascontinued to dominate the sales chartsthis year as well. The company has sincelaunched the JioPhone 2, whichwent on salefor the first time earlier this month.
The fact that Reliance promised the availability of some of the most-used apps, such as Facebook,WhatsApp and YouTube on the device, no doubt contributed to its runaway success.
However, whileFacebook has since been made availableon the Jio Store, users haven’t been so lucky with the other two. While WhatsApp and YouTube were bothexpected to hit the JioPhone this weekitself, areport on The Quintnow suggest that it might still be a while before the former is available on the platform.
According to reports, a dedicated YouTube app for JioPhone is already available on the JioStore, and can be downloaded on all JioPhone and JioPhone 2 units after a system update that will be rolled out in the coming days.
However, much to the chagrin of JioPhone users, WhatsApp continues to remain absent from the JioStore almost a year after the launch of the first-gen device. What many users are finding even more disconcerting is that the company is not even giving any ETA about its availability just yet.
JioPhone was easily thebest-selling feature phonein the country last year. It is powered by KaiOS – a fork of the now-defunct FirefoxOS – and comes pre-loaded with quite a few Jio apps, including, but not limited to, JioTV, JioMusic, JioCinema, HelloJio, JioGames, JioTv, JioShare etc. It also gotsupport for Google Maps recently.
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