Google’s smartphones are going ‘made in India’. Search giant Google will make the Pixel series of smartphones in India. Google Senior Vice President for Devices and Services, Rick Osterloh, announced the same at the company’s annual Google for India event in New Delhi today (October 19). He made the announcement in the presence of Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Osterloh said that the company will partner with international contract manufacturers to make the phones in India. “We will start manufacturing Google Pixel series smartphones in India,” Osterloh said at the event. He, however, did not disclose the name of contract manufacturers.

India priority market for Pixel
Osterloh called India a “priority market” for Pixel smartphones. The latest-generation Pixel phones, Pixel 8 series, went on sale on October 12 in India, same time as in the US. The new Pixel phones also went on sale hours after
Alphabet Inc will begin production in India of its Pixel 8 smartphones in time for sales in 2024, the company announced. This means that the made-in-India Pixel smartphones will become available from 2024 onwards.
Google will partner with local and global suppliers to put together its first India-made handsets, hardware chief Rick Osterloh said at the event. The move from the company responsible for Android, the world’s most-used mobile operating system, adds to a string of successes by India’s government in enticing international device makers to build locally.
In the last few years, device makers, Apple and Samsung have started manufacturing handsets in India and Chinese phone companies vendors have set up partnerships with local assemblers.
(with agency inputs)