Huawei to start manufacturing handsets in India soon

Huawei will soon be starting manufacturing handsets in India and would announce its detailed plans in the coming month. Launching Huawei P9, Peter Zhai, President for Huawei India Consumer Business Group on Wednesday said, “Now we already have licenses for manufacturing in place. In the short term, we will announce our local manufacturing plan in one month.”

According to Zhai, Huawei has big plans for the Indian market. “As an international brand, we are interested in developing our India business at the right time. It is going to be second largest mobile devices market after China. We will be aggressive in India. Huawei will increase presence across 50,000 stores by the end of this year from about couple of thousands now,” he said.

Huawei has been selling mobile phones in India for 16 years now and established its research and development centre in Bengaluru in 1999. The company sells smartphones under two brand names – Huawei and Honor.

Huawei P9 is company’s new smartphone in India after a gap of almost three years. Huawei is also planning to set up its own branded stores but has not firmed up its plan yet. The company also unveiled two tablet PCs – the Matebook and the TalkBand B3 – which will be debuting in India soon. Huawei P9, priced at Rs. 39,999, has started selling at e-commerce portal Flipkart from today. The 5.2-inch 4G smartphone comes with dual quad core processors, dual 12MP rear camera and 8MP front camera, 3,000 mAh battery, 3GB RAM, 32GB internal memory besides multiple sensors.