Samsung loses its position as India’s top smartphone vendor

04 February, 2015
The company lost the title to local brand Micromax, which is already India's leading mobile phone brand

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  • Anish Babu
  • YQ%
  • 04 Feb 2015

Samsung mobiles having worst chipset(Exnous).So many complaints in the mobile set ex:dead Speed, Heating, hanging,restart compare to other brand.

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    • Indian
    • 2SS
    • 04 Feb 2015

    Lava Iris Fuel 50 Check It Out.
    http://www.gsmarena.com/lava_iris_fuel_50-6765.php

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      • AnonD-181709
      • P%u
      • 04 Feb 2015

      Anonymous, 04 Feb 2015Samsung slowly dying, Nokia future is Samsung future too.It's not.
      Samsung is a chaebol, that's why they won't become another Nokia.

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        • django
        • uCs
        • 04 Feb 2015

        FreezeGame, 04 Feb 2015Not surprising. Being that lots of people in India are alwa... moreif people can spend money , they buy iPhones than samsung ;-)

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          • Matthew
          • PBx
          • 04 Feb 2015

          Micromax, the great Indian re-brander came in top due to multiple factors.

          1. Overall branded phones like Samsung , Sony , Nokia & HTC sales are decreasing due to the invent of Chineese manufactures like Xiaomi , Huawei , Lenovo.

          2. Value for money is also a fact, but the VFM for common people is Micromax offers octa core at 200 $ while Samsung offers only quad core. but only who get deep into specs know how crappy the octa core is.

          So overall branded phone sales decreased, due to Chineese influx while Micromax remained stable.

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            • AnonD-336053
            • ftV
            • 04 Feb 2015

            Too bad for Samsung..focus only on S-Series and Note Line.Flooding the market with Crappy phones won't help..I doubt if S6 is going to be a game changer.

              Not surprising. Being that lots of people in India are always complaining about pricey devices, it seems perfectly logical that a low budget company like Micromax would be able to easily sell its low quality products there.

              I wouldn't dare buy one as all of Micromax's devices are pretty terrible.

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                • 7tx
                • 04 Feb 2015

                nd i'll laugh hard

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                  • Megha
                  • D%N
                  • 04 Feb 2015

                  Wow...Seriously good news. No doubt Samsung phones looks, feels better and even Micromax users wish to have one of samsung mobiles. But AT WHAT COST !!! They are far over priced and completely ignored mid range mobile users......If Micromax find few solutions for their drying batteries, HD screens and over all build quality..Samsung can RIP for ever....at least in India...

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                    • mazdy
                    • jxX
                    • 04 Feb 2015

                    I think Sammsung will be back pricing is there's downfall if they can address that then I can't see why not they need to cut the cost of the A series phones. Because they are of good quality. But for price.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • Scq
                      • 04 Feb 2015

                      Samsung slowly dying, Nokia future is Samsung future too.

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                        • Scoop
                        • XNt
                        • 04 Feb 2015

                        Without going too far..please read the users comments on GSMArena...for any micromax product....buyers remorse all over...everywhere...!!
                        Things are all hunky dory for the first 15 days...& then the magical show begins!
                        As somebody rightly said...just for cheapskates!...College students on a limited budget...auto drivers,cabbies...building security guards..& the list is endless.
                        Had 2 of them...Turbo & canvas 2...never ever wil touch it again,not even with a bargepole.

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                          • Aman
                          • rKE
                          • 04 Feb 2015

                          Nothing comes close to my golden 32gb g3..
                          After all there are more dogs than lions but who gives a damn

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                            • Anonymous
                            • rKE
                            • 04 Feb 2015

                            AnonD-5666, 04 Feb 2015Cheap phones for cheap people. These Micromax, Lava, Xolo, ... moreSome wise millionaires still use cheap nokia.. Google it then speak.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • uu3
                              • 04 Feb 2015

                              Just Use Lava Iris X1 16 GB @7.5k........ U Will Forget S3.......I Will Go for Lava Now Because S3 Still In Market But No Updates This Tactics Of Samsung Making Me Angry.

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                                • kk
                                • PT7
                                • 04 Feb 2015

                                To be frank, i can only see lot of samsung mobiles compared to Micromax either in my Ofc or during travel... BTW am using HTC. A micromax or LAVA or Karbonn phone may look good initially but you will be disappointed in a short period bcoz of many issues..

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                                  • hahaha micromax
                                  • vbU
                                  • 04 Feb 2015

                                  AKS, 04 Feb 2015First use micromax then comment...i hv used both Samsung an... moresamsung has better phones just see core prime grand prime and upcoming galaxy J1 they will throw micromax in dustbin....i m user of grand prime and its better phone in 14k compare to cheap toy micromax

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                                    • hahaha micromax
                                    • vbU
                                    • 04 Feb 2015

                                    AKS, 04 Feb 2015First use micromax then comment...i hv used both Samsung an... moremicromax never come against samsung..

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                                      • AnonD-286474
                                      • uts
                                      • 04 Feb 2015

                                      Samsung downgrading the internal hardware while keeping the price premium is one of the reasons

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                                        • Hahaha micromax
                                        • vbU
                                        • 04 Feb 2015

                                        AnonD-7043, 04 Feb 2015people trying to defend Sammy are pretty stupid.... its not... morei m laughing you are saying micromax is value for money...its one of the worst brand in india....micromax cheats people badly than samsung...cheap quality and poor service centre its better to buy samsung 8k phone compare to micromax...and micromax is no 1 company for rebranding...there many phones are rebranded from other chinese company