Freedom 251: All You Need to Know

Ringing Bells Freedom 251 could be the real democratisation of the smartphone. At this price, there should be no one in India who doesn’t own a smartphone and everyone should be online within a couple of years. That is the kind ...Read More

of effect a Rs 251 smartphone will have on the market, not to speak of the dozens of smartphone companies that will go out of business. However, things are not that simple. If there was a possibility to manufacture and sell a phone at under $5, the Chinese ODMs would have done it already. Nearer home, why would a large domestic player like Micromax have left that door open for a small Noida company to exploit first? -See more