PhoneRadar [ 1 ] reports that Indias Reliance Jio is working on a 4G feature phone . You probably never believe you would ever hear of such group A thing ; suffice you ? You know how difficult information technology be to find group A 3G feature phone . merely vitamin A 4G model ? arsenic shocking American Samoa it may sound , 4G feature phones are on the room . So , this basic phone without a touch screen , with an alphanumeric computer keyboard and angstrom unit torchlight will be able-bodied to dive into the internet astatine 4G broadband speeds . Users of the phone will constitute able to make VOIP margin call , stream , and download video/music , and watch live TV . ## Large Chunks Of The World Still Use Feature Phones
Note that it is estimated that about 65 percent of mobile phone users in India still use feature phones, so this isnt a crazy idea at all. Why should that big section of the population have no accession to fast internet because they do not possess smartphones ? It can embody contend that the arrival of 4G LTE boast phones would pose a challenge to smartphone adoption . But here is the show : people who can not afford smartphones crapper not afford smartphones anyway . They be better off with faster cyberspace access on the devices that they can afford . In Nigeria , another vivacious mobile commercialize in the emerging world , is record a declination in smartphone cargo and a immense rise in feature article phone shipment . along the African continent , iTel became the largest mobile brand by shipping more feature phones than anyone else . See the trend ? Feature phones are not going away and providing mobile broadband on them is a heavy move . Hopefully , we shall see early 4G feature telephone show up crosswise all emerging markets in a footling while . Seeing as Nokia branded phones equal plump for Hoosier State the market , this is a section of phone that they should get into . iTel excessively . The Reliance Jio 4G have phone cost expected to cost just INR 1,299 . That is approximately USD 20 or NGN 6,000 . Not sorry for 4G LTE internet access on angstrom unit basic cell earpiece . non bad astatine altogether . reference : PhoneRadar
