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World's Largest Mobile Phone Factory Set To Open in India (bloomberg.com) 27

Samsung said on Monday that it is opening what it said is the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturing facility as the South Korean giant seeks to expand production in the world's fastest growing mobile phone market. From a report: The new Samsung factory will have the capacity of 120 million smartphones per year, and make everything from low-end smartphones that cost under $100 to its flagship S9 model, according to the company. Earlier this year, China's Xiaomi displaced Samsung from the No. 1 smartphone spot in the country, breaking its long-held dominance. Indians favor low-end smartphones priced at $250 or less, given the low average annual income of its people, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. That's one reason why Apple has struggled to gain market share in India, with most iPhone models priced beyond $500, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report earlier this month.
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World's Largest Mobile Phone Factory Set To Open in India

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  • Smart move (Score:4, Insightful)

    by iampiti ( 1059688 ) on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:43PM (#56917868)
    It's a pretty logical move since as the summary says it's the fastest growing mobile market. It'll surely allow Samsung to sell the phones cheaper than if they brought them from abroad. Samsung it's still kind of pricy for what it offers compared to most other Android manufacturers and specially Xiaomi. Since India is such a price sensitive market I'm not sure Samsung will be able to turn the tide.
    I live in Spain and we're richer than the indians but not rich by european standards and still many people buy Xiaomi phones (or BQ a local brand that makes pretty cheap phones too) so as I said, I'm not sure what this will do for Sams.
    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by johansch ( 9784 )

      There are cheaper/better places to manufacture than India.

      I'm guessing avoiding India's relatively steep import tariffs is a pretty big part of this decision.

    • by mrops ( 927562 )

      Ah, confused with average income. Samsung profits have nothing to do with average Spanish budget for a phone vs that of an average Indian. If 25% Spanish can afford a $300 Samsung phone, they sold about 12 million units, Now if just 2% of Indians can afford a $300 Samsung phone, they just sold over 26 million phones.

  • by Hognoxious ( 631665 ) on Monday July 09, 2018 @01:06PM (#56918016) Homepage Journal

    Bad move - how many people are going to want the world's largest mobile phone? If anything, the trend is the other way.

  • When everyone is miniaturizing and making electronics smaller, India wants to make it bigger? It wants to make the world's largest cell phone? How big is that phone gonna be? 42 inches diagonal?
  • I am glad to hear that more manufacturing is coming to India. I'm surprised there hasn't been more of a push by American companies into India for inexpensive manufacturing over the high hurdles to get into China. I hope this Samsung development will help spur further economic progress into the area.

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