$30 Unlocked Android Smartphones To Launch in India This Month (factordaily.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday January 1, 2018 @11:07PM from the next-up dept.

Several Indian smartphone manufacturers including Micromax, Intex and Lava plan to unveil a slew of Android smartphones priced around $30 in the coming weeks, Indian news outlet FactorDaily reported on Tuesday. These handsets would run Android Oreo Go, a lite version of Google's mobile operating system first unveiled last year. The report sheds light on India's smartphone market: With cheap smartphones, Google and the phone vendors hope to ride the wave of mass scale internet access on mobile phones in India. From a monthly consumption of 20 crore (200 million) GB of data about 16 months ago, Indians now consume over 150 crore (1.5 billion) GB a month making the country No. 1 among mobile data consuming countries. Much of this change is credited to aggressive data pricing plans by Reliance Jio, which launched services in September 2016.

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Re:The West is so fucked by bazmail · 2018-01-02 00:22 · Score: 5, Informative

Nope, not "The West". It's only in the US where people get fisted like that. I pay 30 bucks a month for unlimited data/calls. If I dont like the service I can get a similar deal with 4 other carriers. It's called competition.
Re:The West is so fucked by 110010001000 · 2018-01-02 02:59 · Score: 3, Informative

In the US you also can pay around $45 US for unlimited from multiple providers. So I don't know what he is complaining about.