Karbonn announces strategic partnership with MediaTek

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Karbonn and MediaTek - the leading smartphone brand and fabless semiconductor company respectively, announced a strategic partnership in smartphone business.

This major partnership integrates MediaTek's innovative product engineering roadmap into Karbonn's new portfolio of ‘true' octa-core and hexa-core processor based smartphone range.

Through this collaboration, Karbonn has introduced a new portfolio of smartphones including Titanium Hexa, Titanium Octane and Titanium Octane Plus. With this partnership Karbonn has become the first Indian brand to offer the ‘KitKat' OS experience to the Indian consumers.

Aiming to capture the fastest-growing Indian smartphone market, which grew by nearly 229 percent in 2013, Karbonn's partnership with MediaTek will allow India's #3 smartphone brand to consolidate its domestic market position and make strategic inroads into untapped international markets.

The new portfolio with the first-in-industry KitKat OS will bring innovative features like gesture control, extensive voice commands, redefined user interface, faster multitasking and more which will help in attracting more consumers towards BrandKarbonn.