{"id":1018207,"date":"2026-07-02T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018207"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:48:00","slug":"fire-boltt-to-foray-into-smartphone-segment-with-50-mn-investment-targets-4g-5g-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/fire-boltt-to-foray-into-smartphone-segment-with-50-mn-investment-targets-4g-5g-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire-Boltt to foray into smartphone segment with $50 mn investment, targets 4G, 5G devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian smartwatch-maker FireBoltt is getting ready to enter the highly competitive local smartphone market in August with its Boltt brand of 4G and 5G handsets. <\/p>\n<p>The handsets will be priced \u20b912,000-17,000 and targeted at people for whom established brands of smartphones have become out of reach after recent price hikes, cofounder Arnav Kishore told ET. <\/p>\n<p>FireBoltt is investing upwards of $50 million to launch the smartphones and will operate on thin margins for the initial phase, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian smartwatch-maker FireBoltt is getting ready to enter the highly competitive local smartphone market in August with its Boltt brand of 4G and 5G handsets. The handsets will be priced \u20b912,000-17,000 and targeted at people for whom established brands of smartphones have become out of reach after recent price hikes, cofounder Arnav Kishore told ET. FireBoltt is investing upwards of $50 million to launch the smartphones and will operate on thin margins for the initial phase, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018220,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018207\/revisions\/1018220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}