Pawan Fangaria
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According to Canalys.com research firm, in December, Micromax (Indian domestic phone maker) replaced Samsung as top Smartphone seller in India, the third largest Smartphone market in the world. Micromax reached 22% market share in smartphone shipment in India as compared to 20% of Samsung. Earlier, in August, Counterpoint research (Hong Kong based firm) had indicated 16.6% share of Micromax compared to 14.4% of Samsung.
However, according to another research firm, GfK Custom Research Llc, actual sales data show Samsung as continuing to top Smartphone sales in India. The firm says that in Oct-Dec quarter Samsung's sales by volume was 34.3% and that by value was 35.8%. Similar view was projected by the research firm Covergence Catalyst saying that Samsung is the market leader in India.
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My observation is that actual truth will come out in next couple of quarters. Having said that, I see Samsung getting competition from top-end as well as bottom-end. Even in China (a so called low price point market) we saw Apple leading in last quarter. Well in India, the story is that majority of the market falls in the range of $100 - $200 price band. This price band has more that 60% of smartphone share in terms of number of units.
In the top segment, we see Samsung came up with Galaxy S6; need to see how it fares in the market. However, we do not see a budging phone from Samsung in the low-end market. It must bring something like Google Android1 phones which are sold by Micromax, Karbonn, and Spice within $100 range.
Sure, India and China are competing grounds these days. In India we saw 90% growth in smartphone market in this Dec compared to a year ago. People want to swap their cellphones with Smartphones by spending a little higher that what they spent for their cellphones!
However, according to another research firm, GfK Custom Research Llc, actual sales data show Samsung as continuing to top Smartphone sales in India. The firm says that in Oct-Dec quarter Samsung's sales by volume was 34.3% and that by value was 35.8%. Similar view was projected by the research firm Covergence Catalyst saying that Samsung is the market leader in India.
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My observation is that actual truth will come out in next couple of quarters. Having said that, I see Samsung getting competition from top-end as well as bottom-end. Even in China (a so called low price point market) we saw Apple leading in last quarter. Well in India, the story is that majority of the market falls in the range of $100 - $200 price band. This price band has more that 60% of smartphone share in terms of number of units.
In the top segment, we see Samsung came up with Galaxy S6; need to see how it fares in the market. However, we do not see a budging phone from Samsung in the low-end market. It must bring something like Google Android1 phones which are sold by Micromax, Karbonn, and Spice within $100 range.
Sure, India and China are competing grounds these days. In India we saw 90% growth in smartphone market in this Dec compared to a year ago. People want to swap their cellphones with Smartphones by spending a little higher that what they spent for their cellphones!
