Apple finally makes the iPhone in India
May 17, 2017  16:31
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'An Apple Inc manufacturer has completed a trial run of the first-ever iPhones assembled in India, in an important step in the US tech giant's push into the fast-growing South Asian market,' report Rajesh Roy and  Newley Purnell in New Delhi and Tripp Mickle in San Francisco for the Wall Street Journal.   

According to the WSJ, Taiwanese contract manufacturer Wistron Corp, which has an assembling unit in Karnataka, was handled the manufacturing of the SE, Apple's cheapest iPhone model, earlier this month, quoting a state official with direct knowledge of the matter.   

While Apple confirmed to WSJ in a statement that 'it has begun initial production of a small number of iPhone SE handsets in Bangalore and will begin shipping the Indian-made devices to domestic customers this month. The first devices could hit stores as early as this week or next, according to a person familiar with the matter,' a Wistron spokeswoman told the newspaper that the company doesn't comment on "market rumors or speculation.'

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