India’s $4 phone: a manufacturing miracle?

Posted on 22 Feb 2016 by Michael Cruickshank

An Indian phone company has drawn headlines recently with an announcement that it will sell a smartphone at an unprecedentedly low price.

The device, called the Freedom 251 will reportedly sell for just 251 rupees ($3.66) making it by far the cheapest such phone in the world. Produced by a little known company called ‘Ringing Bells’, the smartphone contains similar functionally to many low-end phones ten times its price. Such specifications include a 4-inch display, a 1.3-GHz…

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