Indian company launches world's cheapest smartphone
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NEW DELHIFeb 17, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
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Feb 17, 2016 12:00 am
An Indian company is launching what could be the world's cheapest smartphone Wednesday, with a price tag of less than 4 dollars.
Handset manufacturer Ringing Bells' Freedom 251 phone will cost 251 rupees, or around 3.66 dollars. It will be nearly half the price of the current cheapest smartphone in India.
The device, which runs on the Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system, has a 4-inch colour display, a 1.3 gigahertz processor, and two cameras: a 3.2-megapixel back camera and a 0.3-megapixel front camera.
The smartphone was developed with "immense support" from the Indian government, Ringing Bells said.
The company is touting it as a success story of Premier Narendra Modi's Make in India campaign, which encourages manufacturing in India, according to broadcaster NDTV.
Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was expected to be the chief guest at the smartphone's official launch on Wednesday night.
India's mobile phone subscriber base has risen to over 1 billion users, while sales of low-cost smartphones have also surged. The country recently became the world's second-largest smartphone market after China, according to Counterpoint Research.
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