Namotel Achhe Din available at Rs 99: Another world's cheapest smartphone from India

Namotel Promoter Madhava Reddy has claimed that he is marketing the world’s cheapest smartphone, the Namotel Acche Din, which is priced at just Rs 99 (less than $2). The company says, “We make this product to show love for India it is a ‘Make In India’ initiative. This model is limited and it is applicable only for India and who holds Aadhar Identity.” Madhava Reddy claimed that Namotel is the world’s cheapest phone with 4 inch display and it runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop and is powered by 1.3GHz quadcore processor along with 1 GB RAM. The smartphone will be available for booking from may 17th to till 25th May. The website of the company, Namotel.com, shows that the price has been slashed from Rs 2,999 to Rs 99 and that the smartphone is available on cash-on-delivery basis. It also adds that nominal delivery charges will be levied. The company has added a note on its site that says, ‘Pictures shown on website is for illustration purposes only’. The message that is being displayed by the company says, “Joy and freedom represents the logo! The same joy will flourish in billion Indians In the form of smart Connect with (3 different looks and shapes) Android Smart powerful Phone at 99.” While we could open the Namotel website, clicking on the tab to ‘Know More’ about the Achhe Din phone led to a page that couldn’t load. Namotel’s Acche Din follows on the heels of recently announced low priced smartphones Freedom 251 and Docoss X1. It’s still not clear whether the two are scams or the company actually intends to start shipping the phones which it has received enormous amounts of pre-orders for. With inputs from PTI