Karbonn Mobiles
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Karbonn Mobiles is a Telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

 firm which was founded in March 2009. It is a joint venture Mobile manufacturing company between the Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

 based United Telelinks Limited (A group of Telecom Major, United Telecoms Limited) and Noida
Noida
Noida , short for the New Okhla Industrial Development Area, is an area in India under the management of the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority . Noida came into administrative existence on 17 April 1976 and celebrates 17 April as "Noida Day". It was set up as part of an urbanization...

 based Jaina Marketing & Associates. The company's total investment in Indian consumer market is over $5 million and expects to gain Rs. 1000 Crore revenue in the current fiscal year.
The company has tied up with leading semiconductor companies worldwide for their handsets and targets mainly the budget conscious consumers. The company currently has around 500 Service centers all over India with around 150 dedicated exclusively for Karbonn.

Market Presence

The company has its wide presence all across Indian states. Apart from India, the company handsets are also exported to South Asia
South Asia
South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...

, Africa
Africa
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 and Middle East
Middle East
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 countries.

Product Ranges

The company prominently launches the Dual SIM
Dual SIM
A dual SIM mobile phone is one which holds two SIM cards. Initially, dual-SIM adapters were made available to use in regular mobile phones to allow them to contain two SIMs, and to switch from one to the other as required. This combination is called a standby dual-SIM phone. The first Dual SIM...

 and Dual Processor based handsets to the consumer market. It currently produces wide ranges and form factors of CDMA, GSM and WCDMA products catering to all sections of Telecom users. Apart from Dual GSM based phones, the company has launched GSM + CDMA phones as well, thereby merging the two mobile technologies in a single handset.

Official Sponsorship

The company has made its market presence huge by sponsoring and partnering with some of the prestigious Cricket game leagues such as Airtel Championship Leagues, Indian Premier League
Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...

matches. The company was associated with the Cape Cobras
Cape Cobras
The Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras often shortened to Cape Cobras or Cobras is the name used since the 2005–06 season by the combined Western Province and Boland first class cricket teams in South African domestic cricket. The joint Western Province and Boland team was named Western Province Boland for...

 during the Champions League Twenty20 matches held in 2010.
Apart from cricket game, the company has also recently associated with Indian Entertainment industry by being the lead sponsorer and associate of 17th Annual Star Screen Awards
Star Screen Awards
The Star Screen Awards is an annual awards ceremony in India honoring professional excellence in film. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professional from the industry itself.- History :...

 and also Mirchi Music Awards
Mirchi Music Awards
The Mirchi Music Awards are presented annually by Radio Mirchi to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film music industry of India. The awards, given in seventeen different categories, were instituted to award the best of 2008. In 2010, the Southern...

 ceremonies.

Model prefix index

  • K: Karbonn
  • KC: Karbonn CDMA models
  • KD: Karbonn - Disney Collaboration
  • A : Android Based Models

K Series

  • K1
  • K2
  • K3
  • K4
  • K5
  • K6
  • K7
  • K8
  • K9
  • K10
  • K11
  • K19
  • K20
  • K22
  • K25
  • K25i
  • K30
  • K33
  • K46
  • K55
  • K100
  • K101
  • K102
  • K110
  • K111
  • K118
  • K200
  • K201
  • K202
  • K210
  • K217
  • K220
  • K244
  • K280
  • K300
  • K310
  • K316
  • K325
  • K330
  • K331
  • K332
  • K334
  • K334*
  • K335
  • K336
  • K343
  • K350
  • K360
  • K361
  • K370
  • K380
  • K390
  • K400
  • K404
  • K405
  • K406
  • K409
  • K411
  • K415
  • K424
  • K433
  • K442
  • K443
  • K444
  • K444i
  • K444*
  • K444x
  • K445
  • K446
  • K447
  • K448
  • K449
  • K450
  • K451
  • K451i
  • K451*
  • K455
  • K460
  • K469
  • K478
  • K485
  • K486
  • K487
  • K488
  • K495
  • K496
  • K500
  • K505
  • K508
  • K514
  • K515
  • K541
  • K550
  • K550i
  • K551
  • K560
  • K570
  • K580
  • K580i
  • K650
  • K661
  • K662
  • K666
  • K770
  • K770i
  • K777
  • K1000
  • K1010
  • K1212
  • K1414
  • K1515
  • K1616
  • K1818

  • KC Series

    • KC320
    • KC410
    • KC425
    • KC441 (GSM+CDMA)
    • KC450
    • KC470 (GSM+CDMA)
    • KC475
    • KC555
      Karbonn KC555
      The Karbonn KC555 is a multimedia smartphone made by Karbonn Mobiles with dual sim support. This phone sports an attractive feature of housing either 2 GSM SIM cards OR One GSM and One CDMA UIM card. This phone is one of the first CDMAphones released for Karbonn's line of Multimedia Phones-...

      (GSM+CDMA)
    • KC750 (GSM+CDMA)
    • KC999 (GSM+GSM+CDMA)
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