The original was an initiative of the subsidiary holding company for the Corporation “rosteh” — Ruselectronics: promised for three years to put on the Russian market of budget smartphones and tablets. According to the head of the holding “Ruselectronics” Igor Kozlov, the price of the smartphone will not exceed $ 200 (about 15 thousand rubles), RIA Novosti reports.
“Today we are in dialogue with the Ministry of communications on the establishment of the Russian software for smartphones/tablets. There is now a specific goal – to make the electronic textbook using Russian components,” — said Kozlov. — “My prediction is within the next three years we will have our mass of the tablet and mobile device. The size of the market for such devices in Russia is about 10 million units per year. This figure includes not only mass demand, but also the order of the state”.
At first, Ruselectronics will take Taiwanese or Chinese processor and Android OS. Alternatively, it is also proposed Finnish Sailfish.
The most famous of “Russian smartphone” YotaPhone is still, the first model which entered the market in 2011. The production of these smartphones is engaged Yota Devices. YotaPhone because Assembly is done in Taiwan, critics have noted that this smartphone called Russia’s difficult. A similar path could go and Ruselectronics, however, the holding company has its own facilities for production of components for the microwave equipment and other electronics, so perhaps the Assembly will take place in Russia.
Three years… by 2020, Russia may receive the first budget smartphone Russian production. On “the game”. For two hundred bucks. But our.