tech2 News Staff

In what would have to be one of the most controversial stories in smartphone industry this year, Ringing Bells' MD Mohit Goel has put out a statement claiming that the company has delivered 70,000 units of its Freedom 251 smartphone. Failure to deliver being the secondary reason for coming into the spotlight, the first reason was the ultra-low price tag of the smartphone that was set at Rs 251. Goel in his statement claims that units have so far been delivered to customers in a number of states, also shunning accusations about the company shutting down and opening up a new venture with similar management at the top.

The MD of Ringing Bells said in a statement that it has delivered 70,000 units of its first smartphone to customers in West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal, Bihar, Uttarakhand, New Delhi, Punjab, J&K, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

The new company which recently came into the spotlight was MDM Electronics which according to a report from the Economic Times, was recently incorporated on 7 December. What caught everyone's attention was that the same company, with the same executives on top, now opened up a business with an objective to manufacture and sell the same products. This would include smartphones, features phones, TVs etc.

Upon the recent resignation of Dharna Goel, CEO, Ringing Bells, the statement clarifies that Anmol Goel will be looking into the affairs of the company.

The last we heard from Ringing Bells was when a cheque issued by the company bounced due to insufficient funds. The company was summoned by the court and the next hearing of the case will take place on 28 April in the coming year.

While Ringing Bells has yet to complete the deliver of its Freedom 251 smartphone, the company not too long ago unveiled a new range of feature smartphones. Soon after that Ringing Bells ventured into TV's with its first Freedom 9900 LED TV priced at just Rs 9,900. The company had almost vanished from the radar after announcing that it had sold 5,000 Freedom 251 units back in July. Now the MD claims the remaining 65,000 have been delivered, but where are these customers?