India to overtake US in smart phone sales

US is constantly being challenged in lots of fields by the likes of Brazil, china, India and Russia. China is currently has the maximum number of smartphone users in the World followed by the USA. According to a report in Guardian, this is going to change. India will overtake US to become the second largest Smart phone market in the world

Overall, it is expected that users in India and China will together buy more than 500m smartphones in 2014, comprising half of the total that will be sold in 47 key countries, according to a new forecast. India will be the country where the largest proportion of smartphones sold will go to new users, according to the report. After India, the countries where the largest proportions of smartphones will go to first-time users are Indonesia (86%), Vietnam (82%), Brazil (82%), Romania (80%), Turkey (77%), Ukraine (76%), China (76%), Nigeria (75%) and Japan (75%).

The ten largest countries for sales will be China (283m), India (225m), the US (89m), Brazil (47m), Indonesia (46m), Russia (31m), Japan (30m), Mexico (23m), Germany (22m) and France (18.7m), just ahead of the UK with 17.7m.

Source:
The Guardian