India is the second largest mobile handset market in the world after China.
The second half of CY 2012 continues to see launch of a number of high value, aspirational smartphone models.
These companies are aggressively launching cheaper devices giving a tough time to the existing players.
Despite a 3 per cent dip in global mobile phone sales to 428 million units in the third quarter, smartphone sales jumped a full 47 per cent, according data released by research firm Gartner.
While the outbreak has forced most leading brands like Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Realme to rework their launch dates and pricing strategies, Samsung, which struggled to maintain its hold over the market last year, has taken the lead.
There was nothing remarkable about what would have been just another popular game, except that it was developed in a tiny laboratory in Nagpur by an Indian gaming developer, Manthan Studios, not even two years into business at that time.
Industry estimates suggest that the extent of value addition in the handset space remains at a mere 10 per cent. That effectively means, value-wise 90 per cent of all components used in making a handset continues to be imported.
Electronics and white goods manufacturers such as Videocon, Spice, Usha and Mirc Electronics have begun engaging the services of Independent design houses to take on the likes of global giants including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and LG in the mobile handset space. An IDH conducts research and development and designs handsets to enable Indian telcos launch their own mobile handset brands. It takes an upfront one-time fee for the purpose.
Apple's iPhone supplies in India grew 25 per cent year-on-year in March quarter 2025, capturing 8 per cent market share, a CyberMedia Research report said on Monday.
Indian handset makers are making strong inroads in the booming mobile market.
Micromax is at second spot in smartphone sales.
Total India smartphone sales touched 2.7 million units during January-March 2012. Samsung emerged as the leader in the smartphone segment with a 40.4 per cent share, followed at number two and number three by Nokia with 25.5 per cent and RIM with 12.3 per cent share.
The market showed signs of revival in the fourth quarter of 2009 with a year-on-year growth of 2.3 per cent to touch 28.36 million units.
India's mobile-phone market grew to 183 million handsets in 2011.
Huawei, as well as ZTE, has of late shown interest in setting up a manufacturing facility in India.
The foremost lesson is that technology has got commoditised.
Irregular billing, poor network coverage and lack of relevant content makes mobile TV a distant dream for 3G services in India.
Samsung may be the leader in the burgeoning Indian mobile market.
Shipment of 5G smartphones in the country continues to gain traction and such devices accounted for 22 per cent market share in the third quarter of 2021, according to CMR. As per CMR's India Mobile Handset Market Review Report for Q3 2021, more than 20 5G-capable smartphones were launched over the course of the quarter.
'Instead of the government and telecom operators solving the mess of their own creation, they're telling us we need to give access to our phones perpetually.'
Every student of Classes 9 and 10 will receive Rs 2,200 and that of Classes 11 and 12 Rs 7,500 as scholarships, said the manifesto, which was released by Prasad in Ranchi, in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das, Union Tribal Minister Arjun Munda and BJP's state unit president Laxman Gilua.
Experts believe cyclical glitches account for the downturn in mobile-phone sales
According to analysts, most of the growth in the smartphone space will come from existing users, who will be lured to upgrade their handsets as new features and technologies turn existing features redundant, says Arnab Dutta.
Components manufactured in India are low-value products like casing and box packaging that constitute 5% of the bill for materials required in phone manufacturing.
Mobile handsets market in India is likely to increase 8.5 per cent to 231 million units in 2012, compared to 213 million units expected this year, research firm Gartner said on Tuesday.
Nokia's Sriperumbudur factory is its largest in the world.
A report titled 'India Monthly Mobile Handsets Market Review', CMR claims that November last year was the third consecutive month when smartphone shipments in India crossed one million units and saw the launch of 23 smartphone models.
The GST rate on mobile phones will be hiked to 18 per cent while that on maintenance repair overhaul (MRO) services for aircraft will be lowered to 5 per cent with effect from April 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. The GST rate on handmade and machine-made matchsticks has been rationalised to 12 per cent from 5 per cent and 18 per cent respectively.
What's more shocking is that the 15-year-long study by international researchers has found that exposure to mobile handsets can also affect the heart rate of an unborn child to some extent. The study concluded that the use of mobile phones by pregnant women -- even as little as two or three times a day -- was enough to up the risk of hyperactivity and behavioural problems in kids.
Mobile handset shipments to India declined by 3 per cent in the April-June period compared to the previous quarter due to inventory build-up and reworking on product line-up by vendors, says research firm IDC.
The financial structure of the agreement includes undisclosed one-time payment and on-going payments, all from RIM to Nokia
'With India's growing capabilities in the space sector, this creates promising opportunities for enhanced collaboration and market access.'
Finland's Nokia on Wednesday announced opening its first satellite design studio, in Bangalore, signalling the growing importance the world's biggest mobile handset maker attaches to India.
Research In Motion, which makes Blackberry mobile handsets, would step up its retail presence across the country to stay afloat in the fiercely competitive smartphones market.
The R&D centre would come up at Chennai, the company said.
Is self-reliance the right approach in a mega-buck game, or better to be part of a network? asks T N Ninan.
Nokia, world's largest mobile handset manufacturer, witnessed a 4.8 per cent decline in its global market share to 29.3 per cent during the first quarter of 2004 mainly due to the absence of mid-range phones, according to IDC.
A new satellite, which the space agency plans to launch in the next three years, will be able to provide a direct satellite communication link to mobile phone handsets --a technology that will work on the lines of the direct-to-home technology.
'I found my motivation in the fast emerging mobile market.' 'Nokia's biggest mistake lay in its stubbornness to change.' 'It's important to understand the pulse of the people It has been a long journey for Md Gyasuddin, Hitech Mobiles MD.
