Micromax world's 10th largest mobile phone brand in Q1: Gartner

Gartner's data showed the total sales (features and smartphones) stood at 460.3 million units during the first quarter of 2015, a 2.5 percent increase from the year-ago period.
   
Korean firm Samsung led by tally with 21.3 percent share, followed by Apple (13.1 percent), Microsoft (7.2 percent), LG (4.3 percent) and Lenovo (4.2 percent).
  
Others in the top 10 include Huawei (4 percent), Xiaomi (3.2 percent), TCL Communication (3.1 percent), ZTE (2.7 percent) and Micromax (1.8 percent).
  
"In light of their strong smartphone sales in the emerging markets, the Indian and Chinese phone manufacturers increased their footprint during the first quarter of 2015. Six of them were in the top 10 in the first quarter of 2015," Gartner Research Director Anshul Gupta said.
  
Global smartphones sales to end-users witnessed 19.3 percent increase to 336 million units during the first quarter of 2015, led by strong growth in emerging markets (excluding China).
  
The fastest growing regions were emerging Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa, Gartner said.

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Apple biggest 4G smartphone, tab vendor in India: CMR

According to the research firm, over one million LTE devices, including smartphones, tablets and data cards were shipped to the Indian market in the fourth quarter of 2014, marking the "coming of age" of the 4G devices.

"Within smartphones, the major type of LTE devices shipped into the India market, Apple leads with a 45 percent market share during Q4 CY2014, followed by HTC at 19 percent and Samsung at 16 percent," CMR said.
  
It added that the Cupertino-based firm dominated the tablet segment with 70.6 percent market share, followed by Lenovo 28.7 percent and Hewlett-Packard with a relatively insignificant presence during the period.
  
"Till a few months ago, we had Apple iPhone and a couple of other global brands offering 4G phones in the India market, but sales started to pick up with competitively priced devices being made available by brands like Xiaomi, Oneplus and Lenovo starting to ship LTE phones towards the end of CY2014," CMR Telecoms Practice Lead Analyst Faisal Kawoosa said.

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