The Dhaka Times Desk There is a big market for smartphones in our country. This smartphone market needs an affordable smartphone that is within everyone's reach. For this purpose, a smartphone is coming in the market which is made in our country. The government telecom industry organization is helping to develop this smartphone called "OK" mobile.
Smartphones have taken over the mobile phone market quite well in recent times. Apple and Samsung will be the frontrunners in this market. But beyond that, China's technology market is the one to remember about the proliferation of smartphones in third world countries.
Apple's iPhone dominates the market and Samsung's Android smartphone is a big deal. But in terms of price, it was out of reach in many countries of the world. In this case, China's technology market created a competitive market by introducing smartphones to the market in cheaper form. There are currently 114 million mobile phone users in Bangladesh. A large part of them are currently leaning towards smartphones, the rest are also gradually leaning towards smartphones.
A company named Indigo has developed this smartphone in collaboration with Bangladesh Telephone Industry Limited or Tesis. Already this construction process is about to be completed. According to various sources, this smartphone may come to the market in August or September this year. The factory and management work required to build this smartphone is almost complete. This smartphone will be launched under the 'OK' mobile brand. Indigo has leased space from Tesis or the telephone industry to build the plant needed to manufacture smartphones. The Indigo company is bringing in the necessary technology for smartphone manufacturing from China and the design features of this smartphone will be similar to the famous American mobile brand OK Mobile. So it will be branded as OK Mobile in Bangladesh market. If this smartphone comes to the market, it will be the first smartphone made in Bangladesh. Earlier, some other companies released smartphones in the Bangladesh market, but none of them were made in this country.
Jasim Uddin, Managing Director of Indigo Group, said that six Chinese engineers have already started working on this project. He also said that in the initial phase five different types of mobile handsets will be released in the market whose prices have been fixed at Tk 1200 to Tk 1400. Among them, the price of 3G smartphone sets will be Rs. 3800. Besides, the highest priced handset will be Rs. 7000. Each phone will be dual-SIM and have a 2- to 10-megapixel camera. OK brand handsets are already available in the Chinese market.
The Bangladesh Telephone Industry Association had previously announced tenders for manufacturing low-cost handsets many times but did not receive a suitable response. Indigo Group came forward in this tender for the fourth time. On February 27, the Indigo Group was handed over space inside the industrial complex to set up a factory to manufacture its mobile handsets. It should be noted that Bangladesh Telephone Industry Corporation has previously produced and released low-cost dual-laptops in the market. But those laptops could not be accepted in the market due to various mechanical defects.
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