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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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Emergence of E-Commerce Sites as Potential Sales & Marketing Channels for Tablets in India

The average monthly sales of tablets in India have trebled since Q4, 2011. This is primarily due to the increasing number of low-end (sub $200) device models being launched by Indian OEMs, enabled by both hardware commoditization (driven by China/Taiwan … 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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Nokia’s Smartphone Revival – Hits, Misses and Current Options for the Company

Yesterday, I was reading an article on an Indian business blog where the author presented some interesting scenarios and a compelling argument for Nokia’s turnaround, based on their smartphone devices and OS strategy. He presented the fact that Nokia currently … 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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India Smartphone Outlook for 2012

2011 was the first big year for smartphones in India. Convergence Catalyst estimates between 9 to 9.5M smartphones to have been sold in India in 2011. October was a landmark month having witnessed smartphone sales crossing the 1 million mark. … 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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