Celkon launches octa-core smartphone

Mobile handset manufacturer Celkon Mobiles has launched Millennia Octa 510, its first smartphone with octa-core processor, in Hyderabad on Wednesday.Powered with a 1.4-GHz octa-core processor, the dual-sim, five-inch touch phone is priced at Rs 8,999.

It is planning to bring out a premium smartphone, equipped with octa-core processor and 4G-enabled, by April this year, Celkon executive director Murali Retineni, told mediapersons here. It is also in the process of identifying a suitable location, both in AP and Telangana, to set up a 100,000 units per year capacity handset manufacturing facility, he said, while declining to draw any time line.