A couple months back again we learned that Chinese mobile phone maker Vivo overtook Samsung’s second spot as the greatest vendor of smartphones in India. In accordance to Canalys company, the model did without a doubt promote over 6.7 million units and noticed a rise in sector share to up to 19.9% ​in the initial quarter of this calendar year. Though Samsung dropped to 6.3 million units transported and 18.9% market place share.

Samsung is Now the Top rated Brand for High quality Smartphones in India

Properly, evidently, it’s not just terrible news for the Korean tech huge. According to a new analysis, this time from Counterpoint Investigation, Samsung led the high quality market phase in India for the first time in a lengthy time. Of course, we’re nevertheless conversing about Q1 of 2020. The so-referred to as high quality segment incorporates all smartphone priced over INR 30,000, which is all-around $400. This means that of course, it includes higher-stop phones, but at the similar time we come across non-flagship devices this sort of as Samsung’s “Lite” alternatives.

As a issue of fact, these “Lite” possibilities are what pushed Samsung into the lead, in accordance to the industry exploration business. We’re specifically speaking about Samsung Galaxy 10 Lite and the Galaxy Observe 10 Lite. That mentioned, the much more “affordable” Samsung Galaxy S20 also helped with the accomplishment although the brand name offered some incentives and cashback to simplicity the product sales.

Possibly way, Samsung managed to attain a whopping 34% of the market place share in the high quality smartphone shipments for the first quarter. Which is incredibly excellent information for the brand that not too long ago made the decision to permit 1000’s of offline vendors to turn out to be component of the on the web ecosystem and therefore reach out to a much larger foundation of shoppers with over 20,000 sellers that have currently signed up.

Last but not least, as we can see in the graph above, Samsung bested Apple by close to a stage. In the meantime OnePlus fell by an further 8% soon after dominating in Q2 of 2019.