India’s largest telecom company Reliance Jio is working on a new product. According to the report, the company can bring a cheap laptop, which will be named JioBook. According to the report of XDAdevelopers, this laptop may work on Google’s Android OS instead of Windows 10 operating system. Jio can name this operating system as JioOS.
In early 2018, Miguel Nunes, Senior Director of Product Management, Qualcomm Technology, told ET that Reliance Jio is looking to partner with the American chipmaker to bring laptops that will come with cellular connectivity. However, now three years later, it seems that Jio is finally producing laptops based on Qualcomm hardware, though the software may see slight changes.
Therefore, to reduce the price
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 665 processor is being used in Jio’s laptop. This is an 11nm chipset, which was introduced in the year 2019. This chipset comes with a built-in 4G LTE modem, through which cellular connectivity will be available in JioBook laptop.
According to the report of XDADevelopers, Jio has partnered with a China-based engineering company Bluebank Communication Technology to develop this laptop. This company develops mobile devices and software for third parties. According to the documents, the work of making JioBook started in September 2020, and it will last till the first half of 2021.
According to the report, a display with 1366×768 resolution will be available in it. Mini HDMI connector, WiFi, Bluetooth, three-axis accelerometer, and Qualcomm audio chip will be given in the laptop. Jio apps like JioStore, JioMeet, JioPages are also provided in this. Apart from this, there are apps like Teams, Edge and Office from Microsoft which will come pre-installed.
