Google Chromecast, Nexus 6 coming to India Dec 10

Leveraging on increased consumer confidence to shop online, Google Tuesday unveiled a slew of new products as part of the three-day online shopping festival, a company statement said here.

The products will be promoted through platform of the Great Online Shopping Festiva, which takes place Dec 10-12.

Google announced the launch of Google Chromecast (dongle) in India, which will be available for Rs.2,999 at snapdeal.com and select Airtel stores across India from Dec 10.

The much awaited Nexus 6 (smartphone) from Google & Motorola was also unveiled and will be available to buyers on Google Playstore from Dec 10. The device will be available at Rs.43,999 for the 32GB and Rs.48,999 for the 64GB version.

Lenovo also announced the launch of new YOGA Tablet 2 Pro (Android). The tablet will be available for sale exclusively on Flipkart.com from Dec 10 at Rs.49,490.

"Consumer confidence to shop online is on the rise in India. Convenience, variety and availability of latest products across the country are driving the growth of online shopping in India. We started GOSF in 2012 with just 90 partners and in our third year, we have five times more partners participating in gosf.in, including many first time partners like Big Bazaar, Lakme, Van Heusen and Asian Paints," said Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India.

In the last few weeks, over 5 million users have visited to gosf.in site, he informed.