{"id":957543,"date":"2025-08-25T17:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957543"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:39:54","slug":"honor-to-start-making-smartphones-in-india-from-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/25\/honor-to-start-making-smartphones-in-india-from-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor to start making smartphones in India from November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PSAV Global, the brand partner of Chinese smartphone company Honor, is in talks with electronic manufacturing services companies to begin production of Honor devices in India from November, a top company official said.<\/p>\n<p>PSAV Global Co-founder and CEO CP Khandelwal told PTI the company plans to garner 1 per cent market share in the first year with the &#8216;Made in India&#8217; Honor smartphones, resulting in around \u20b92,500 crore revenue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After CKD (complete knocked down) manufacturing begins, our first-year target is to achieve approximately 1 per cent market share, which translates to around \u20b92,500 crore in revenue. This target will be achieved within the first year of manufacturing operations, from November 2025 to November 2026,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Counterpoint Research report on global mobile phone supplies for the first quarter of 2025, besides the top 5 brands, Honor was among the fast-growing brands and providing tough competition globally. <\/p>\n<p>Huawei was the biggest OEM in China in Q1, while Honor and Motorola showed high growth in multiple markets, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>PSAV is the official brand partner of Honor Tech in India. Earlier, it was part of the Chinese telecom gear giant Huawei.<\/p>\n<p>Khandelwal said that after initial delays from the Bureau of India Standards, the company has received approval for four models.<\/p>\n<p>Honor has already launched Honor X9c, followed by Honor X7c this month. <\/p>\n<p>The company is now gearing up to launch Honor V3, and Honor Magic 7 Pro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once our local manufacturing starts, we will launch all global models in India in line with international timelines,&#8221; Khandelwal said.<\/p>\n<p>PSAV had set a target to start production in 2024, but missed the timeline because of external factors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, BIS clearances were delayed by the government, and there were also management changes at Honor headquarters. These developments delayed our manufacturing plans for India,&#8221; Khandelwal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSAV Global, the brand partner of Chinese smartphone company Honor, is in talks with electronic manufacturing services companies to begin production of Honor devices in India from November, a top company official said. PSAV Global Co-founder and CEO CP Khandelwal told PTI the company plans to garner 1 per cent market share in the first year with the &#8216;Made in India&#8217; Honor smartphones, resulting in around \u20b92,500 crore revenue. &#8220;After CKD (complete knocked down) manufacturing begins, our first-year target is to achieve approximately 1 per cent market share, which translates to around \u20b92,500 crore in revenue. This target will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957543","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}