JioPhone quick review: Looks like a feature phone but watching TV on it is fun Over two months after it was announced, the JioPhone is finally out. Is it worth a buy? Let's find out. Over two months after it was announced, the JioPhone is finally out. It is still not in the hands of consumers. That will happen in the coming days, possibly in the first week of October. But slowly and surely we have started seeing it - it is no longer a myth. The free 4G phone exists. And works fairly well I can say, from whatever little time I have spent with it so far. Reliance Jio describes the JioPhone as the world's first smart feature phone. And rightly so. The JioPhone looks like a feature phone. That much was evident from the images of the phone. But now that the phone is out there in flesh and blood -- no, make it plastic and rubber -- and I have seen it, I can say that it looks like any generic feature phone. It has a T9 keyboard, like what used to be there on the old Nokia and Sams...