Sunday, August 23, 2015

Micromax plans to build its own OS across Platforms, says report

ust like other OSes, this is forked Android version which is taking advantage of Google’s open source platform.
The company’s software team in Bengaluru believed to develop the forked Android OS and more than 75 people in design team was acquired from Nokia’s R&D in Beijing as per the report.
“The first smartphones with the new OS will be available by the end of this financialyear and they will be affordably priced,” says Micromax’s co-founder Vikas Jain.
Similar to most of its competitors, Micromax also realized that it started shifting the focuses on software. The company believed that it is closer to Indian audiences and also has better understanding with the Indian market.
Now, Micromax is enjoying second spot in the Indian handset market and it also closed the ‘fiscal 2015 with around Rs.11,000 crores of revenue’ and sells more than 3 million phones in a month. Last year Micromax teamed up with Cynaogen and sell phones running on Cyanogen OS under the Yu brand.