Brushing Xiaomi claims for being the number one brand in Indian smartphone market, Samsung asserted that it has been the market leader for several years and has been way ahead from its competitors by a huge margin. "If you look at 2017's overall basis and previous five years before that, Samsung has been consistently leading the Indian handset market from 6 years in a row", said Asim Warsi, Global Vice President, Samsung India. Warsi's comments came after being asked about Chinese firm Xiaomi's claims over being the number one brand in Indian handset market. Earlier, a Canalys report showed that in December quarter, Xiaomi owned a market share of 27.4 per cent in the Indian smartphone market having sold 8.2 million smartphones. Samsung India has recently launched its flagship Galaxy products, galaxy S9 and S9+ in India.

Source: dna March 09, 2018 10:07 UTC