Smartron launches tphone at Rs 22,999

Smartron, a city-based technology firm, launched its smart mobile phone, ‘tphone’, in an apparent bid to expand the product base of its technological ecosystem, ‘tronx’.

This will be the second product from the company’s stables after the laptop computer, ‘tbook’ launched recently.

Featuring Android Marshmallow operating system, 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, octacore CPU, and 4GB RAM, the device with 5.5-inch display is priced at Rs. 22,999, and promoted for the seamless connectivity among wide variety of devices and electronic goods which will soon be part of the ‘t-home’ experience.

Legendary cricketer and Smartron’s strategic shareholder cum brand ambassador Sachin Tendulkar and Telangana Minister for Information Technology K.T. Rama Rao unveiled the mobile phone here on Thursday. Founder-Chairman of Smartron, Mahesh Lingareddy advertised the phone as “totally designed and engineered in India”, and said manufacturing too will very soon be shifted to India. The company is very closely working with Foxconn, for shifting the manufacture to India, after offshore manufacturing of about 10,000 phones.