Foxconn kicks off manufacturing smartphones in its Indian plant
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Taking a step towards making India a manufacturing hub,
Vincent WH Tong, chairman of FIH Mobile, Foxconn's phone manufacturing unit, told ET that the company will ramp up the production capacity of the plant, located in the state's 7,000-acre
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The chairman declined to comment on the quantity of phones being manufactured from the factory for Xiaomi and InFocus.
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Tong said the company is talking to multiple customers to make phones from the same facility, without sharing names of possible clients.
Chinese smartphone leader Xiaomi has publicly shared its plans to make phones in the country, but India head Manu Jain said the company is still finalising its manufacturing plans, when asked whether it was getting smartphones made from Foxconn's new unit.
US-based InFocus started selling its M330 model priced at Rs 9,999 in India in March through an exclusive partnership with
Foxconn, the maker of iPhones and iPads for
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