India’s smartphone market shipped 152.5 million units in 2019, with a modest 8 percent year-over-year (YoY) growth, the International Data Corporation (IDC) said on Friday. India also became the second largest smartphone market in 2019 after China. The overall mobile phone market, with annual shipments of 282.9 million units, declined by 12.3 percent (YoY) in 2019 due to fewer 4G feature phones, according to the IDC ‘Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.’ IDC expects the India smartphone market to see modest single digit growth in 2020 as well.
For the fourth quarter of 2019, a total of 36.9 million smartphone units were shipped, registering 5.5 per cent YoY growth but a 20.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline. The feature phone segment continued to decline YoY by 21.1 per cent with shipments of 30.1 million units in 4Q 2019. Xiaomi registered annual shipments of 43.6 million units in 2019 while Vivo climbed to the second slot, surpassing Samsung with massive 96.5 per cent YoY growth in 4Q19
