Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi registered annual growth of 155 percent in its shipments in India in the first quarter. Xiaomi shipped over 9 million units, giving it a market share of 31 percent, the highest ever for a vendor since the first quarter of 2014, when Samsung had a share of 33 percent, according to a report from Canalys.
The study further indicates Samsung shipped under 7.5 million smartphones, growing by 24 percent year-on-year, while Oppo ranked third with 2.8 million shipments, and Vivo fourth with 2.1 million shipments. Overall, the smartphone market in India grew at 8 percent to 29.5 million units for the quarter.
Xiaomi’s Redmi 5A reaches record sales of 3.5 million in the quarter. Samsung’s best-selling device, the J7 Nxt, shipped just 1.5 million units, the study shows. The top four vendors accounted for about 75 percent of all smartphone shipments to India, with Xiaomi and Samsung accounting for 56 percent.
Lenovo’s smartphone shipments were just short of a million units, falling by more than 60 percent year-on-year, while Gionee shipped an all-time low of 150,000 units with shipments down 90 percent year-on-year.
