Backed by a strong growth in the smartphone category, mobile handset sales in India have grown by over 20 per cent.
The report has also revealed the information that feature phones sales have also grown in 2012. These grew 19.9 per cent to 206.4 million in 2012 from 172.2 million in the previous year. In the feature phones segment, the Finnish handset maker, Nokia, grabbed the first place with 21.8- per cent share, followed by Samsung with 13.7-per cent sales. As far as the domestic handset maker, Micromax, is concerned, it was at third place with 6.6-per cent market share.
In the smartphone category, Samsung was at the top position with 43.1-per cent share, followed by Nokia with 13.3-per cent share
