At an event held in Mumbai today, Jio in partnership with Apple unveiled the newly launched Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in India. The phones were launched by Akash M Ambani, Director, Jio. Tim Cook and Mukesh Ambani also expressed their delight and addressed the audience through a special video message.
We witnessed the launch of both the phones on Sep 12 at the Steve Jobs Theatre along with iPhone X, Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV 4K. Since then, speculations were made about the availability of the products in India as well.
Jio is offering the phones with some offers and exclusive tariff plans. One such offer is 70% buyback scheme under which the user will can claim 70% of the MRP of the phone as the buy back amount on returning the phone after one year. In his speech at the launch event, Akash M Ambani said that such buyback offers are available in US and Europe. This is the first time that any such offer is introduced in the country. Users can avail this offer from My Jio App, Jio store, Reliance Digital store, Amazon India and enterprise partners of Jio. Apart from this, an additional cashback is also provided to Citi Credit Card and World Debit Card users.
Jio has also announced special tariff plans for both the phones. Priced at Rs 799, the plan will provide 90GB of data per month to the users, meaning they will get 3GB of high speed data per day along with free voice calls, SMS and subscribed Jio apps. The offer is applicable for a month to postpaid users and prepaid users.
Apart from launching these phones in the Indian market, both the brands will work together to bring Mac Labs and iPhone X in the country within next few months.
Price and availability
Both the iPhones will be available in 64GB and 256GB variants on Reliance Digital outlets located in 900 cities across the country. The iPhone 8 64GB variant and 256GB variant are priced at Rs 64,000 and Rs 77,000 respectively. Buyers have to shed an additional amount of Rs 9,000 for 64GB and 256GB variants of iPhone 8 Plus.
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