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Xenitis Group launches India's cheapest mobile handset and laptop news
29 May 2008

Mumbai: Kolkata-based Xenitis Group has launched India's cheapest handset and laptop targeted at entry level users. In the presence of the West Bengal state assembly's standing committee on commerce and industry, the company unveiled a new range of mobile handsets, whose entry level piece costs Rs499, the lowest-priced handset in the country. The other models are priced between Rs500 to Rs2000.

Another new launch that caught everyone's attention was the Xuva XC 200  laptop priced at Rs 14,990, which is the cheapest laptop in the country. The company also launched the UFO 0150, a 150 cc scooter, aimed at the urban college going people.

The products would be introduced in the market during the later part of 2008.

In a bid to increase its mobile penetration in the fast growing Indian market, the company is studying several possibilities including direct sales of mobile phones under the company brand name, acting as OEM for major handset makers, and supplying to telecom service providers for their bundled packages, said Xenitis chairman Santanu Ghosh

"In the next two years, there will be 500 million new connections India. We want to have a good share of that," he added

The group has floated a new company called Xenitis Telecommunications for the mobile phone venture and would invest around Rs250 crore to set up a 10 acre mobile phone manufacturing plant in West Bengal.

Xenitis has already bagged the order for 1,60,000  handsets from mobile manufacturers in the country and plans to export some of it in the Middle East.

Designed and manufactured by Xenitis Infotech, the flagship company of the group, the newly launched Xuva XC 200 laptop is powered by the Intel Celeron 2Ghz (550) processor. Other features include 512 MB RAM, 120 GB HD, DVD, card reader, SIS chipset and a13.3-inch WXGA LCD screen, all for Rs 14,990 only.

Founded in 2002, The Xenitis Group has varied business interests including infotech, automobiles, telecom and education. The company currently manufactures and sells computer components, motorcycles, bi-cycles and mobiles. The Group also provides IT  training under the brand name of ''Technolab,'' in the areas of hardware, networking and security.

The Xenitis group posted a turnover of Rs1000 crore in 2007, which it seeks to double in 2008-09.


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Xenitis Group launches India's cheapest mobile handset and laptop