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In 2020, affordable 5G phones were expected to be the catalyst to increase phone replacements, but now it is unlikely to be the case.

India sold a total of 35.7 million smartphones, achieving a market share of 9.7 per cent in the second quarter of 2019. 

Lenovo retained the top spot in Q2 2019 with the fastest year-over-year growth and the largest share gain among the top vendors.

Of the 12 vendors evaluated, Adobe was among the top three named for their ability to execute and completeness of vision.

The Devices segment, Data Centre Systems and Communications Services are expected to grow by 5 per cent, 1.8 per cent and 2.2 respectively to reach $697 billion, $176 billion and $1,417 billion spending.

The demand for wearable technology is set to increase 16.7 percent in 2017 and 310.4 million such devices will be sold globally, market research firm Gartner said on Thursday.

Strong demand for 4G devices in emerging markets like India, helped smartphone sales grow 6.7 percent to 366.2 million units in April-June 2017 as compared to year-ago period, as per data from research firm Gartner.

The overall smartphone shipment is expected to reach nearly 1.6 billion units in 2017.

Apple was the largest vendor in 2016 with over $218 billion in IT revenue -- approximately $79 billion larger than Samsung (with $139 billion) at second spot, Gartner said on Tuesday.

Led by growth in business process outsourcing, the Indian government is set to spend $7.8 billion on IT in 2017 - an increase of 9.5 percent over 2016, market research firm Gartner said on Monday.

The importance of apps in delivering services will diminish and emergence of virtual personal assistants (VPAs) will replace functions performed by applications, according to Gartner.

Global smartphone sales will continue to slow down and will no longer grow in double digits, a new report has said. But India still has the highest growth potential.

Global application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue rose marginally to USD 23.9 billion in 2015 as a considerable jump in the dollar masked growth in the market, Gartner said on Friday

Worldwide PC shipments plunged by 9.6 percent during January-March 2016 -- sixth straight quarterly fall -- to 64.8 million units on lower adoption in new households, especially in emerging markets, preliminary results by Gartner showed today.

The impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on consumers' lives and corporate business models is rapidly increasing and by 2020, more than half of major new business processes will incorporate some element of the IoT, world's leading information technology research company Gartner has predicted.

About 82.59 million PCs were shipped in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Driven by growth in emerging markets, global mobile phone shipments in July-September 2015 reached 478 million units and Indian brand Micromax was among top 10 handset vendors, research firm Gartner said Wednesday.

India accounts for less than one percent of the total retail sales despite being the fastest digital commerce market in Asia, growing at 40 percent each year, according to research firm Gartner.

Demand slowdown in enterprise segment led to 13 percent decline in the Indian PC market to about 2.2 million units during the second quarter of this year, research firm Gartner said Tuesday.

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 per cent increase from the year-ago period.