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2 Lakhs Freedom 251 Phones are in stock says the Company

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Are you still waiting for world’s cheapest smartphone “Freedom 251”, if so the latest information from the Ringing Bells makes you happy. The company says it has 2 Lakhs Freedom 251 phones with them till now, and it will start delivering from 30th June 2016.

In February Ringing Bell announced that it would deliver 25 Lakhs Freedom 251 phones before June 30th. But the company failed to keep that promise, and anyhow it announced it has two lakhs units only right now.

Ringing Bells founder Mohit Goel says “We learned from our mistakes and decided to go silent till we come out with the product. Now we have a 4-inch, dual-SIM phone ready for delivery. I feel vindicated”.

Goel says, they are getting Rs. 140 to 150 loss per each unit, and he expressed confidence that they can make profits by producing larger volumes of the smart phones.

As per the latest information the company shared, the smartphone had a 4-inch screen with Dual SIM facility and equipped with 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, 1GB RAM. It has 8 GB internal storage, which is no way sufficient for current Android app requirements.

Rs. 99/- Namotel Achhe Din Smarphone – Here are my doubts

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Since Freedom 251 Launch, few people try to grab the media attention with cheap smartphone ideas. “Namotel Achhe Din” is the latest incident in that category.

Smartphone for Rs. 99/- is highly impossible. The promoter Madhava Reddy knows this. That’s why he specified the original price as Rs. 2,999/- and tricked the customers Rs. 99 as the special introductory price.

Yesterday popular media houses and TV channels in India wrote exclusive articles and specification sheets on their platforms about this Rs. 99 phone. I already fought vigorously on Freedom251 at that time. Coming to this new bogus phone, I decided to be silent. But I got plenty of requests to open up on this latest issue, and that’s why this article is shaped.

I have few doubts about this phone, my questions are..

1. How can the promoter Madhava Reddy offers Rs. 2,999 valued phone for Rs. 99? How he bears the additional financial burden, i.e. Rs. 2,900 for each unit he sells? He didn’t mention any tie-up with bankers and financial institutions or investors support for this. Think how it could be possible?

2. “Pictures shown in the website is for illustration purposes only” – this is the message Namotel website display for “Namotel Achhe Din” model listing? This indicates that they don’t have an idea on the phone prototype they are going to manufacture? Then how can we trust just by seeing the basic specifications?

3. I tried to open the Namotel site today. Whatever the reasons hosting company already suspended the account. You can guess the reliability of the company with this incident.

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4. They are asking us to register with bemybanker.com prior to phone booking. You need to submit your Aadhaar details and photo for this. In my opinion, no private firm has right to demand identity details and personal information as a photograph for their business.

So please don’t trust such type of false cheap smartphone tactics.