JioPhone bags 'Nikkei Superior Products and Services Award'

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio's cheap feature phone with access to unlimited internet - JioPhone - has bagged the prestigious Nikkei Superior Products and Services Awards for 2018.

"Souped-up feature phone from India opens up the internet to low income users," the Japanese publication said on its website. "The 2018 Nikkei Superior Products and Services Awards honour innovations that are not only good products but also blaze trails for the technologies of tomorrow. The winner of the Nikkei Asian Review Award for Excellence is a cell phone offered at rock-bottom prices by Reliance Jio."