Mobile less than € 7

- Indian phone maker Ringing Bells launched a dirt cheap smart phone in his homeland. The device, the Freedom 251 costs just 500 rupees, equivalent to € 6.55.

The phone is given the price of hardware obviously quite modest: a 4 inch wide screen with a resolution of 960 by 540 pixels, a 3 megapixel camera on the back and a 1.3GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage memory. If software was chosen for version 5. 1 of Google's Android system.

India is a huge growth market in mobile and the number of mobile connections in recent years increased dramatically. The market for low-cost smartphones there also particularly large, though the price of the Freedom 251 be a new record.

Microsoft has repeatedly used this market to popularize its Windows Phone system. Unfortunately for the company it turned out not exactly sit here waiting for the operating system. Market leader is therefore Google that its Android operating system basically give away free to phone manufacturers.