How Selling A Smartphone For $4 Unsurprisingly Was a Scam
Indian firm Ringing Bells' $4 Freedom 251 smartphone was a rebranded Chinese phone and a fraud.
“Mohit Goel, who was spearheading the project, was arrested and charged with fraud.”
A 2016 story recounting how India's Ringing Bells promised a $4 smartphone, took pre-orders, and was exposed as a scam involving a rebranded Adcom Chinese handset, leading to a fraud arrest. The content contains no meaningful AI industry signal and is unrelated to AI conference intelligence.