Chinese handset maker Gionee has tied up with Foxconn and Dixon to manufacture its F series & P series phones; feature phones and other smartphones respectively, for Gionee in India. Gionee will also be investing $50 million in the next 3 years on manufacturing in India. These phones will be manufactured out of Dixon and Foxconn’s Delhi NCR and Andhra Pradesh facilities respectively, starting next month. Gionee says that both Dixon and Foxconn put together have the capacity of producing over 1.2 million handsets every month. The company will also pump investment into its R&D team in India, which will work on the software Gionee UI Amigo to customise it for Indian consumers. India manufacturing facility Interestingly, in April this year, the Chinese handset maker planned to set up a manufacturing facility in India within the next three years. The company claimed it would invest Rs 300 crore (~ $45 million) to set up this plant, which would manufacture devices for India, the SAARC countries and Nigeria. At that point, India was Gionee’s second largest market behind China, where it claims to have sold over 4 million devices last year. The company mentioned that it has earmarked a budget of Rs 225 crore (~ $34 million) for marketing and advertising in India over the next year. The Indian government has been encouraging domestic companies to start manufacturing electronics goods within the country instead of importing them and had approved a National Policy on Electronics. Since then, various smartphone manufacturers have said they…
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