The founder of the national computer corporation Alexander Kalinin said that he plans to invest about 10 billion rubles in the development and creation of mobile smartphones and tablets for the consumer market.
According to Kalinin, the gadgets will run Android. JSC Sovereign Mobile Initiative was created to develop this direction. Holding”, which includes “large structures”. SMI Holding JSC, according to SPARK-Interfax, was established on February 7 with an authorized capital of 5 million rubles, the owners are not listed in the database.
We are considering various options, this could be production at Russian factories or contract manufacturing at Chinese enterprises.
The design is carried out by the basis of “Vobis Computer” (approx. release of smartphones under the brand name Highscreen) Vadim Kopin. The retail price of mobile devices will be 10-30 thousand rubles. The first batch, expected by December – up to 100 thousand pieces. By 2026, we have discovered up to 10% of the Russian market, which is about 3–3.5 million devices.
— Alexander Kalinin
Experts doubt such decisions: “The biggest question is how they license the use of Android with its GMS platform for use in Russia. Google will never take that step.”
In December 2022, it became known that the Ministry of Digital Development was joining the development of the domestic mobile ecosystem based on the AOSP consortium. The use of the second option is the impact on smartphones of the Aurora OS, but then an increase in the amount of funds consumed. [Коммерсанть]
Source: Iphones RU
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