The International Data Corporation (IDC) has highlighted data received from the AP Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report revealing that the India mobile phone market grew by 24% year over year (Year-on-Year) in 2013 Q1.
The report, in addition, finds that the India phone market saw a close-to 24% increase in shipments year-on-year, primarily driven by the surge in the smartphone shipments over the last year. The smartphone market grew 74% year-on-year from 2012 Q1 to 2013 Q1.
Manasi Yadav, Senior Market Analyst with IDC's Client Devices team, said, Samsung rose to the top spot in the Indian mobile phone market and the rise can largely be attributed to its gains in the smartphone market over the past two years. The Indian smartphone market reached a total of 6.1 million units 2013 Q1, a 14% quarter-on-quarter growth. The competition between top international and local vendors remained prominent in the last quarter with Samsung, Micromax and Karbonn controlling almost two-thirds of the Indian smartphone market. However, the market remained driven by low-cost devices.
Android’s dominance continued in 2013 Q1 as well, driven by the low-end smartphone segment which is largely focussed on Android as of now.
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