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India Smartphone Outlook for 2013

2012 Smartphone Year in Review: The smartphones sales in India grew over 100% (year-on-year) in 2012 to reach 20 to 22 million units. For the first time, monthly sales crossed 2 million units in Q4 and smartphones breached the USD … Continue reading

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Comparison of China & India Smartphone Markets

China and India are the world’s biggest mobile markets with 1.05 billion and 934 million subscribers respectively. At the end of 2011, the smartphones installed base in both these markets was less than 100 million (over 90 million in China and … Continue reading

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Indian Mobile App Developer Dynamics – Key Challenges and Opportunities

There are close to 10,000 companies developing mobile applications in India. Together, they employ over 250,000 developers. Most of the mobile app development work carried out by Indian developers is limited to product development (software coding) and validation (testing) and … Continue reading

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Is India Ready for Customized and Branded Mobile App Stores?

Branded mobile application stores (app stores) by both device OEMs and carriers have existed in India for a while, and continue to be launched. Nokia launched its ‘Ovi store’  in 2009 (later rebranded as ‘Nokia Store), Airtel has its ‘App Central’, … Continue reading

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Proliferation of Tablets in the Indian Education Sector

Digital technologies have existed for over ten years in the Indian Education Sector, albeit with minimal adoption. Earlier, the use of VSAT based classrooms for distance learning, plasma TVs in schools and colleges, Ethernet based networks in connected campuses have … Continue reading

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Evolution of Indian Handset OEMs – History, Current State and Future Outlook

In early 2008, there were only 6 to 8 brands operating in the Indian mobile devices market, and almost all of them were global. This number increased to over 180 by 2011. Young Indian handset vendors such as Micromax, Karbonn, … Continue reading

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Key Drivers for Evolution of Tablets in India

Tablets have been in existence only these past 15 months, with Apple launching iPad in April, 2010. Since then, tablets have gained significant traction and have globally clocked an estimated sales of 15 million in Q2, 2011 alone. Of tablets … Continue reading

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