Established previous year, Ringing Bells will start with the assembly of handsets in Phase-I and aims at full indigenous development of the feature-rich smartphones, it said. It has launched two other feature phones in the market before "Freedom 251".
It also has a relatively poor camera - the rear camera is 3 MP and its front camera is just 0.3 MP. The inbuilt touchless technology is Ideal for selfie.
That resemblance is no accident, reports the Hindustan Times, which says that Ringing Bells' technical head Vikas Sharma told it, "We used Apple's icons because Apple hasn't copyrighted its designs". In short, innovative solutions for a Brighter tomorrow.
The release of the Ringing Bells Freedom 251 means exciting things for India, and if it goes well possibly the hacker community, too. The phone is available online and at 650 distributors across the country from today.
"Dear friends, we are very greatefull for your enormous response and your kind patronage and would submit that as of now we receive approx 6 Lacs hits per second as a result of which due to your kind overwhelming response servers are over loaded". The company is charging a shipping charge of Rs.40, which means you finally pay Rs. 291 to get the Freedom 251. Priced at 251 rupees ($3.65), the 3G device is being called the cheapest smartphone in the world.
Ringing Bells, has set for itself, another seemingly unachievable target of 30 per cent of the Indian smartphone market in the next 12 months.
For those unfamiliar with the Freedom 215, the handset comes with Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system right out of the box. If you are wondering how to book the Freedom 251, you will have to visit their website for booking, though it will take June to complete the shipment. With 8 GB internal storage and 1 GB RAM, the smartphone has pre-installed applications including Swachh Bharat, Women Safety, WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube, Farmer, Medical and Fisherman. Defence minister Manohar Parrikkar was earlier slated to be at the launch, but made a decision to give it a skip at the last minute.
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