Smartphone users on a rise in India

Karan Dogra is working as a marketing executive with a technology firm in Gurgaon. Smartphones are not a passion for him, but a growing necessity.

His latest purchase, the Apple I-Phone 5 with its multi utility features, has made life easier helping him remain in constant touch with clients and business partners.

Over 50 million phones were shipped to India in the first quarter of 2012, of which around 47 million were feature phones and nearly 3 million were smartphones.