Overall, Nokia retained the top spot with a market share of 52.8 per cent, followed by LG at 10.2 per cent and Samsung at 8.3 per cent in terms of units shipped during the quarter ended March 31, 2008.
Mr Kapil Dev Singh, Country Manager, IDC India said, "This growth comes on the back of a burgeoning mobile services market and lower entry barriers across various customer categories, as average selling values of handsets continue to fall in the wake of a highly competitive landscape populated by close to 25 vendors."
IDC highlighted that there has been an uptake in 3G mobile handsets sales. EDGE and WCDMA-enabled mobile phones contributed 15.4 per cent and 3.1 per cent of the total mobile phone shipments in 2007-08 compared to 7.4 per cent and 1.2 per cent, respectively, in 2006-07.
