Smartphone suppliers in India shipped 46.6 million units in the most recent quarter, an increase of 9.3 percent from the previous quarter. The average selling price is much lower than in the West, just $159 and top brands are all Asian companies, Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, Realme and Oppo. However. the iPhone...
90% of Foxconn's Sri City Plant in India Are Women
At Foxconn Technology Group’s mobile phone plant in Sri City, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, of the nearly 15,000 workers 90% are women who assemble phones for various manufacturers, including Xiaomi. Recently, workers began testing and assembling Apple’s iPhone X, which will be sold in India first and eventually...
Foxconn Moves Production of iPhones to India
Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn Technology Group said that his company will mass produce iPhones in India this year. "In the future we will play a very important role in India’s smartphone industry," he said at an event in Taiwan. "We have moved our production lines there." India is now...
Apple Reduces iPhone XR Prices in India
To boost sales in the face of stiff competition in the premium smartphone segment in India, where it stands at third position, Apple lowered the selling price of its latest iPhone XR by up to 22 percent. Phone Model Current Price Previous Price XR 64 GB $867 $1,113...
Smartphone Sales Rose 14.5 percent in India
Per Framingham, MA-based IDC or International Data Corporation’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, India smartphone market shipped 142.3 million units in 2018, 14.5% year-on-year growth. Upasana Joshi, associate research manager, Client Devices, IDC India, adds: --> Shipments of the online-exclusive portfolios of Xiaomi, Honor, Realme, Asus, OnePlus among others, further...
India Announces Changes to FDI Policy for E-Commerce
India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry released new changes to the FDI policy for the e-commerce sector which aim to cut predatory pricing and deep discounting by large e-commerce retailers to ensure a "level-playing field" for smaller and multi-channel players, as well as the brick and mortar retailers. The guidelines...