NEW DELHI: Smartphone shipments in India in the January-March quarter grew a tepid 4% year-on-year because of supply chain disruption and lockdown of factories, first in China and then in India in late March, according to CMR’s India mobile handset market review report for Q1 2020, published today.
A Counterpoint Research report also said that smartphone shipments grew 4% YoY during the quarter. According to the CMR report, the first crop of 5G smartphones in India, which included iQOO 3 and Realme X50 Pro, arrived in Q1 and accounted for 2% of total shipments.
Although India is yet to roll out 5G services, having the technology makes these smartphones future ready. Xiaomi, Vivo and Samsung were the three leading smartphone vendors in the