LG India launches 'Made in India' K10, K7 smartphones

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: South Korean electronic giant LG on Thursday launched two new K-series smartphones in India – the K7 and K10 – pricing them at Rs 9,500 and Rs 13,500 respectively.

Reiterating its commitment to the Make in India initiative, these two smartphones were locally- manufactured even as the company targets to manufacture 1 million phones in India.

The company will be manufacturing phones at its Noida facility in partnership with GDN Enterprises.

"We want to tap the huge potential for smartphones in the country and the K-series will be the first ones to be manufactured in India," LG Electronics India Managing Director Kim Ki-Wan said

Besides LG, companies such as Micromax, Lava, Gionee, OnePlus and Xiaomi have started assembling their devices in the country.

The LG K7 comes with a 5-inch in-cell touch display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor, 1.5GB RAM and 8GB storage.

It also has a 5MP rear camera, a 5MP front-facing camera and 2125mAh battery. It supports 4G LTE and will be available in Titan, Gold, and White colours.

On the other hand, the LG K10 features a 5.3-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) resolution display and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop.

It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 SoC coupled with 2GB of RAM, has an inbuilt memory of 16GB, 13MP rear camera and a 5MP front-facing camera.

The K10 is backed by a 2300mAh battery and will be arriving in three colour variants - White, Indigo, and Gold.