Read Reliance Jio's 5-point checklist to book the JioPhone

The D-Day is finally here. Booking for Reliance Jio's feature phone, dubbed JioPhone, starts at 5.30 pm today. The pre-bookings for the feature phone can be made at all Reliance Digital stores as well as the company's authorized retail stores. Interested buyers can also pre-book the device via Reliance Jio's MyJio app.

Meanwhile, the company too has shared a five-point checklist for booking the device on its official Twitter handle. Here are the five points as per the checklist. 

* Ensure your phone/device is charged

* List the numbers of your friends and family members you'd like to book for

* Keep credit/debit card handy or have sufficient funds in your digital wallets

* Contain your excitement and take a deep breath

The Jio Phone runs on VoLTE network and comes with a host of pre-installed services such as JioTV and JioCinema apps. The device also has its own digital assistant along with the support for voice commands. It also comes with support for 24 Indian languages. Reliance says that users can long press on the '5' key to directly call their near and dear ones. Furthermore, the company will bring NFC feature on Jio-branded phones as well later this year. The feature will arrive as part of a software update.

For purchasing the Rs 1,500 feature phone, the customers will need to pay a sum of Rs 500 during the pre-booking of the phone itself. The remaning Rs 1,000 payment will be made at the time of the delivery. The company is reported to have trained its people to manage the initial bookings deluge expected at its stores.

Reliance Jio has also said that the device will be given on first-come-first serve basis. The company aims to gradually increase the shipments and have 5 million JioPhones available at retail stores every week. Deliveries for JioPhone are expected to start between 1 to 4th September.

Announced at Reliance Industries' 40th annual general meeting (AGM), JioPhone comes at an "effective" price of Rs 0. The company will be taking a refundable security deposit of Rs 1500 for the device. It claims the same has been kept "to avoid potential misuse of the device". The security deposit will be refunded after a minimum period of three years.