Lenovo to make phones in Chennai with Flextronics

New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Lenovo, which acquired US handset brand Motorola from Google last year, on Tuesday announced its plans to contract manufacture smartphones in partnership with its global partner Flextronics from its Chennai facility.

The company already operates a manufacturing unit out of Puducherry, where it makes all its laptops.

The new facility, which will come with product testing labs and aquality assurance facility, will house 1,500 employees with separate manufacturing lines for Lenovo and Motorla.

"The company will make Moto E and the Lenovo K3 Note out of the new facility," said Chen Xudong, chairman of Motorola Mobility.