In an effort to follow the ongoing cheapest smartphone trend, companies are offering smartphones to the people at very low cost. And now a Bengaluru based company has offered a cheapest smartphone in the country for an unbelievable price of Rs. 99.

Namotel, a smartphone company is selling the their phone from their website based on online bookings at just Rs. 99.

“The smartphone is available for pre-booking from May 17 to May 25 on the company's website namotel.com,” said the company’s promoter Madhav Reddy at the press conference.

The website depicts that the price of the smartphone has been lowered down from Rs. 2,999 to Rs. 99 and the phone is available through cash-on-delivery. Additional charges will be added, according to the company’s website.

The company has added a note on the website says, “Pictures shown on website is for illustration purposes only”

Although the phone is available for just Rs. 99, the user ID as well as password is required to book a phone and that, too, of bemybanker.com. To open a bemybanker account the user will have to pay Rs. 199 as a member ship fee.

Both the websites, namotel.com as well as bemybanker.com was unavailable for some time after the phone launch.

The message put up by company on the website reads “Joy and freedom represents the logo! The same joy will flourish in billion Indians in the form of smart Connect with (3 different looks and shapes) Android Smart powerful Phone at 99. We make this product to show love for India it is a 'MAKE IN INDIA' Initiative. This model is limited and it is applicable only for India and who holds Aadhar Identity”

Specifications

Namotel Acche Din sports a 4-inch display with 480x800 pixels WVGA resolution. It runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS and packs 1GB RAM. There's 4GB of internal storage which is expandable up to 32GB via microSD card. There's a 2MP camera at the back and a VGA selfie camera for those who plan on using this thing for taking photos. Connectivity options include 3G and dual-SIM.

By Prajakt K.