Smartphone market share, International Data Corporation (IDC) released the latest data show that India being the second largest market in the smartphone industry, shifting the United States (U.S.).
Although the overall mobile phone market is still slow (growing 21 percent year-over-year, four percent of the quarter per quarter), but the use of smartphones in India is on the rise.
Smartphone market share, Smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2013 rose 50 percent from quarter to quarter and grew significantly. A total of 9.3 million units of smartphones shipped in the second quarter this year, up from 5.8 million units last year kuarta second with 3.5 million units of smartphones.
Reporting from GSMArena, Friday (08/30/2013), the second most populous in the world, IDC predicts, the availability of 3G and 2.5G handsets with affordable prices make consumers in India to switch from feature phones.
Smartphone market share, Interestingly, in buying gadgets, Indian consumers prefer dual-SIM functionality and the big screen, only after that feature. By 30 percent of the outstanding devices in the Indian market has a screen size in the range of 5-7 inches, up 17-fold from year to year.
Smartphone with foreign brands are still strong in India, but local brands like Micromax and Carbon also gained considerable market share. More than the volume of smartphones in circulation in India is supplied from both the vendor.
Smartphone market share, The latest statistics released by IDC showed that Samsungs leadership position in the Indian smartphone market is being threatened particularly by Micromax local vendors. Samsungs market share dropped to 26 percent in Q2 2013, from 32.7 percent in Q1 2013, while Micromax increase the share to 22 percent in the second quarter from 18.8 percent in the previous quarter.
Smartphone market share, Micromax told the Economic Times that they aim to become the top smartphone players in Q3 2013, Samsung will topple off its pedestal. Micromax founder Rahul Sharma says: "Micromax have exceeded the 2 million unit shipments in Q2 2013 and is ready to become one of the number one smartphone in India in Q3. We expect to exceed $ 1 billion with our strategy of innovative products, strong distribution and marketing focused on the youth of India. "
