India registered 221.6 million mobile handset shipments for the year 2012 (January-December), up by 20.8% Y0Y from 183.4 million mobile handset shipments for the year 2011, according to CMR’s India Mobile Handsets Market Review. Out of the 221.6 million mobile handsets, 206.4 million were feature phone handsets, a rise of 19.9% YoY from 172.2 million feature phones handsets shipped in 2011. Samsung had 13.5%, while Micromax had 6.6% of the handsets overall handsets shipped to the country. SmartPhones - Shipments: About 15.2 million smartphone were shipped in the country in 2012, up by 35.7% from 11.2 million smartphone shipped in 2011. During the second half of 2012, smartphone shipments stood at 8.1% of the country’s total mobile handset shipments. Note that according to a report released by IDC indicates that the smartphone market in India had grown to 16.3 million units in 2012, up by 48% from 11 million units in 2011. While the smartphone shipment numbers for the year 2011 from these two research firm seems be in sync, its 2012 numbers does not. However, both the reports still indicate that India is still majorly a feature phone handset market with smartphone taking up only 6.8% of the total handsets shipped in the country. - Samsung tops the Smartphone market chart in the country with 43.1% of unit shipments of smartphones for the year 2012. - Nokia is at number 2, with 13.3% unit shipments - Sony Mobiles takes the third place with 8.2% of unit shipments. Note that smartphone shipments reported for Samsung for CY 2011…
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