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India to surpass US as world’s second largest smartphone market

on Jul 2, 2015 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

The US smartphone market, recently dethroned from its perch as the world’s largest by China, is set to slip further down the global pecking order after a new report showed it slipping behind India by 2017.

Strategy Analytics predict that Americans will have to make do with third place as India’s massive population makes the shift from feature phones to smartphones.

Linda Sui, director at Strategy Analytics, explained: “China has been the engine of global smartphone growth in recent years, but China is now maturing and slowing. India is fast becoming the next major growth wave. We forecast 118 million smartphones Read full story ›

Source: The Drum