Dell to introduce more mobile handsets

With the mobile phone handset industry witnessing fast growth, IT major Dell plans to introduce more models in the coming months, a top company official said here on Tuesday.

"It (mobile phone business) is doing really well. We are ramping it up", Dell India Chairman and Dell Services (Executive Vice-President) Suresh Vaswani said.

Though the smart phones division contribute only a small per cent of the company's business in India, Dell India plans to bring in more models in future.

Dell India currently offers Dell Streak5, XCD35, Dell Venue and Dell Venue Pro in the mobile division.

"XCD35 is the entry level phone while Venue and Venue Pro are offered with Android and Microsoft platforms. The Streak5 is the five inch tablet and a smartphone. This year we plan to bring in some more (devices)", a company official said.

Vaswani said Dell plans to focus on "new generation technologies" in India as part of sustaining its growth path achieved in the last five years. "We have been growing at 34 per cent CAGR in the last five years. We will focus on new generation technologies..", he said.

He claimed Dell has very strong market share in midmarkets of which India was one. "Our thrust in India is to leverage on the new generation technologies", he said.