KOLKATA: Noida-based Dixon Technologies is set to start making 3G and 4G smartphones for Gionee from May, becoming the second contract manufacturer after Foxconn to take up local production for the Chinese smartphone maker in India.Dixon will start locally manufacturing Gionee’s ‘P’ series of 3G and 4G phones from next month, and graduate to the ‘F’ series of 4G smartphones by July, Gionee India’s managing director Arvind Vohra told ET.The ‘P’ series of Gionee smartphones locally manufactured by Dixon will be priced at about .`6,000 while the more expensive ‘F’ series will cost Rs 10,000, Vohra said.Gionee recently inked a separate contract manufacturing pact with Dixon to step up local production of smartphones, in what is slated to lend impetus to the Narendra Modi government’s ‘Make in India’ drive.At present, Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn entirely handles local smartphone production for Gionee at its Andhra Pradesh unit.“Foxconn will take care of 50-60% of Gionee’s local smartphone production needs while Dixon will handle the rest from its Noida factory,” Vohra said.He said Gionee will also ensure there is “no duplication in the handsets manufactured at the Foxconn and Dixon factories for the India market”.Dixon, he said, will initially dedicate three production lines at its Noida facility for Gionee’s smartphone production needs, and may scale up to six lines in the near future, depending on market requirements. At present, Gionee sells about 4.8 million phones a year in India. It plans to increase the number to 8 million units annually by the end of this fiscal.