Jio Working on ‘Cloud’ Laptop Meant to Cut Ownership Costs: Report

Telecom big Reliance Jio has been laborious at work on its {hardware} choices, launching telephones and laptops within the price range section. The corporate introduced its second laptop computer, the JioBook (2023), earlier this 12 months in July at an aggressive value of Rs. 16,499. Jio now appears intent on increasing its PC lineup, with a brand new report claiming the corporate plans to deliver a cloud laptop computer to market at round Rs. 15,000. The cloud laptop computer, which can lower down the excessive prices concerned with transport a laptop computer by working off of Jio Cloud, will launch in India within the coming months.

A report from The Financial Instances on Saturday stated that the Mukesh Ambani-owned telecommunications agency was holding talks with prime producers like HP, Acer and Lenovo to introduce the laptop computer within the nation in a number of months.

Citing a senior Jio official, the ET report claimed that the laptop computer could be a “dumb terminal” with all its processing and storage features completed on Jio Cloud infrastructure, thus decreasing the necessity for costly {hardware} and consequently bringing down the price of possession for a laptop computer. Keep in mind, nonetheless, a cloud-based pc would want an always-on web connection to entry storage, processing and different functionalities off the cloud {that a} common laptop computer would be capable to carry out natively.

“The price of a laptop computer relies on its {hardware} like reminiscence, processing energy, chipset and so on. The higher capability of those {hardware} will increase prices in addition to battery energy. What we’re doing is, we’re stripping all this and the entire processing of the laptop computer will occur on the again finish within the Jio cloud,” ET quoted the Jio official as saying.

The report additionally stated that Jio plans to pair the laptop computer with a month-to-month cloud subscription, very similar to Apple’s iCloud or a Google One subscription. Pricing for the cloud membership, nonetheless, will probably be finalised at a later date. The cloud subscription will even doubtless bundle a bunch of Jio companies, with specialised options out there on a better tier plan.

The proposed cloud laptop computer is presently present process trials on an HP Chromebook, the report added. Moreover, the cloud PC software program is also accessed on current units, like a desktop or a wise TV, with out having to purchase the cloud-based machine

Again in September, Jio launched its AirFiber, a digital leisure and Wi-Fi service, providing entry to over 550 digital TV channels, together with subscriptions to over 16 OTT apps. Meant for customers with restricted fibre Web entry at their location, Jio’s AirFiber companies provide Wi-Fi-like web connection based mostly on 5G FWA (fastened wi-fi entry). Jio AirFiber is now out there in 262 cities in India, with plans ranging from Rs. 599 a month.

In July, the corporate launched the JioBook (2023), successor to the primary JioBook launched final 12 months. The most recent JioBook is powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT8788 processor and runs on Android-based JioOS working system.

Earlier this month, Jio additionally launched JioPhone Prima 4G characteristic cellphone at Rs. 2,599. The cellphone runs on KaiOS platform and helps fashionable apps like WhatsApp, YouTube, Google Search, Fb and a bunch of Jio companies. The corporate can be speculated to be engaged on a 5G handset.