Apple iPhone will be assembled in India starting from March 2019. The production, alongside iPhone 6S, will take place at Wistron’s local unit in Bengaluru.
“We are proud to be producing iPhone 7 in Bengaluru for our local customers furthering our long-term commitment in India,” Apple said in press statement.
Apple iPhone 7 is priced in India at ₹39,900 for the 32GB storage variant and ₹49,900 for the 128GB storage variant. The phone was launched back in 2016 and it features a 4.7-inch display, 12MP rear camera, A10 Fusion chip, and 7MP front camera. It runs iOS 12.
Apple first started manufacturing its smartphones in India back in 2017 with iPhone SE. The first Made in India phone from Apple was also assembled at the same Wistron facility in Bengaluru. Currently, the Wistron Bengaluru facility is said to be assembling iPhone 7 along with iPhone 6S.
According to Apple’s 13th annual Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, all of the company’s final assembly site, including Wistron in India, are now certified Zero Waste to Landfills.
Apple has been showing interest in India lately since India is turning out to be the rapidly growing smartphone market in the world. Apple, in 2017, partnered up with St. John’s Medical College in Bengaluru to launch its health programme in order to make health awareness more widespread among workers in supplier facilities worldwide, including India using peer-to-peer training model.
Additionally, there has been a rise in health education in 2018 among workers at Wistron India, according to the report.
Moreover, Apple might move its high-end iPhone production to India in 2019, according to a report from Reuters.
The report states that Apple’s largest contract manufacturer, Foxconn, is planning to assemble the flagship grade iPhones in India very soon. Foxconn already has a manufacturing facility in India, where it manufactures phones for brands such as Xiaomi, and now the Taiwan based company is planning to invest 25 billion Indian rupees to expand the plant, according to the report. This initiative is set to create more than 25000 jobs in India.
As far as the Indian market is concerned, this might reduce the skyrocketing prices of iPhones in the country. The production will take place at Foxconn’s plant in Sriperumbudur, Tamilnadu according to the report.
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