Popular forum for independent Android ROM development, XDA has announced support for devices made by Indian manufacturers Micromax, Karbonn and Xolo. It also announced support for devices made by Lenovo for the Indian market. Devices that will be supported as of now are: Micromax Canvas 4 A210, Micromax Canvas Turbo A250, Micromax Canvas Magnus A117, Micromax Canvas Doodle A111, Doodle 2 A240, Micromax Canvas 2 Plus A110Q, Lenovo K900, Lenovo A850, Lenovo A3000, Lenovo P780, Samsung Galaxy Grand 2, Lava Xolo Q1000 and Karbonn A21. The website announced that India was the second highest source of traffic to its website after US, which pretty much reflects Gartner's stats on India being the world's fastest growing smartphone market, with smartphone sales increasing at a rate of 166.8% in Q4 2013. Now on, XDA says it will do a better job of monitoring upcoming device releases. It has also implemented a back-end tagging system for forums that lets it “label” a forum as popular in India. Users who only want to see these devices can visit a new filtered version of the XDA homepage at xda.in. That said, the list created by XDA is very small and does not include several popular devices made by Indian manufacturers in the past. We hope that they will add sections for such devices very soon as activity picks up. Why is this important It is a shot in the arm for consumers in India who have bought these affordable devices, as XDA guarantees support for these devices in the long run,…
