Google is reportedly planning to make Pixel telephones in India. In keeping with The Data (through TechCrunch), the know-how large is eyeing to maneuver manufacturing of Pixel smartphones to the nation. The report states that Google has solicited bids from producers to assemble between 500,000 and 1 million models of the Pixel smartphone that accounts for 10-20% of Pixel telephones annual manufacturing. Google hasn’t taken a remaining name on transferring some Pixel manufacturing to India, the report cautions.
The corporate has been planning to maneuver its manufacturing of Pixel telephones away from China for a while now. A report in 2019 urged that the Pixel 4a and Pixel 5 collection telephones have been being manufactured in Vietnam. Google then moved again manufacturing of Pixel 6 collection telephones to China.
Google hasn’t launched premium Pixel telephones in India for nearly three years for varied causes. At current, Google gives the inexpensive variants of its Pixel telephones in India (the likes of Google Pixel 6a, Pixel 4a). If the corporate strikes forward with the plan, we are going to see extra Pixel telephone launches within the nation hopefully. This may additionally assist in enhancing the sale of Pixel smartphones in India. Presently, Pixel telephones are lagging behind different Android telephones, particularly within the Indian market. Making them in India could give Google an edge over its rivals.
Google’s rival Apple began assembling telephones in India 5 years in the past in 2017. The Cupertino-based firm is planning to start manufacturing the newest iPhone 14 in India. The manufacturing is claimed to start out about two months after the product’s preliminary launch out of China, narrowing the hole between the 2 nations however not closing it utterly as some had anticipated.
Different smartphone makers Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo and Vivo have been regionally producing handsets in addition to a spread of different devices within the nation for a number of years.
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