India will have its own Apple, Sam soon: Vaishnaw
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw declared India would have its own Apple and Samsung-like smartphone brand by October 2028 at the NDTV World Summit in Delhi on October 23, 2026. He emphasized India's design, manufacturing, and intellectual property would come together in the nation's mobile phones by October 2028.
Vaishnaw set a two-year timeline for this ambitious goal, urging the audience to remember the date October 23, 2028. He stressed India's growth in the global electronics supply chain and its expansion of smartphone manufacturing, but acknowledged that creating the technology and intellectual property behind a competitive handset remains a more formidable task.
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