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India's smartphone market shipments declined by 21 percent (year-on-year), during Q1 2023.

Make in India shipment grew by 16 % in Q1 of this FY. Oppo led with a 24% share followed by Samsung and Vivo. Lava led feature phone segment with a 21% share.

The top five vendors of the year were Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, Realme and Oppo. The handset market in the country fell by almost 2% YoY with 150 million units. On handsets, IDC added that MediaTek processor-based smartphone shipments led with a share of 43%, closely followed by Qualcomm at 40%.

A new report from research firm Strategy Analytics showed on Saturday (March 21) that global smartphone shipments plunged as much as 38% year-on-year in February, 2020 due to coronavirus outbreak. It was the biggest fall recorded ever in the history of the smartphone market across the globe.

According to experts, 2018 was a vibrant year for smartphone companies in India as shipments grew by an estimated 11 percent to about 150 million units. And the growth streak is expected to get a bit better at 12 percent in 2019.

India's smartphone market seems to have recovered from the impact of demonetisation with sales growing by 4.7 percent to 27 million units in January-March 2017 compared to the previous quarter, says a report.

India registered 109.1 million units of smartphone shipments with a marginal 5.2 percent annual growth in 2016, market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) said on Monday. Chinese players led the pack.

Smartphone shipments in India grew a healthy 15 percent in the second quarter this year compared to the global smartphone market which grew a mere three percent, market research firm Counterpoint Research reported on Friday.

South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung remained the top smartphone maker, shipping 85.6 million units in the final quarter and 324.8 million for the year.

According to the research firm CyberMedia Research, a total of 56.6 million handsets were shipped during the June quarter, of which smartphones comprised 43 per cent (24.8 million units) of the volume.

Smartphone shipments grew 24.8 percent to 24.41 million units during the April-June period, with Korean handset maker Samsung continuing to hold the numero uno position in the Indian market, research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR) said in a statement.

Smartphone shipments to the Middle East and Africa saw an unprecedented year-on-year growth of 83 percent in 2014, according to a report.