China smartphone vendors pushing into overseas markets

In Delhi, it is Apple all the way, with 5s in the lead, and the iPhone 6, the iPhone 6s, the iPhone 5 and the latest iPhone 7 making up the top five.

Another technique is to dive deeper into developing markets.

Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, added: "OPPO R9s shipped 8.9 million units for third place and 3% marketshare worldwide in Q1 2017". We don't care much about Apple's numbers and so as part of the Android community, we're more interested in what Android phone made it on top for Q1 2017.

India is one of the greatest smartphone markets after China.

It didn't. Unexpectedly the bronze metal goes to a pretty obscure Chinese device maker, which interestingly - is offering its products only in a few select markets. Two-thirds of smartphones sold in the country cost less than $180, while devices over $300 take up only a small fraction of the market.

Its iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were ranked, respectively, as the first and second best-selling smartphone models in the world last quarter.

According to The Economic Times report, the price of the iPhone 5s could drop as low as Rs 15,000.

Nearly nine million of the Chinese handsets were sold in Q1 2017.

Samsung's market share in India in the first quarter of 2017 was 27 percent: three percentage points down compared with the same period a year ago. It's more surprising because even Huawei and Xiaomi were overtaken by Oppo.

Importantly, 31% of consumers have also reported visiting a retail store before purchasing a device, an increase from 26% over the past year, and perhaps the reason Xiaomi has announced that it is now beginning to open retail stores in India. That's a huge uptake that demonstrates they understand something Samsung and Apple don't about India.

ScientiaMobile, which recently released a report that crowns the Galaxy S7 as the most popular Samsung-made smartphone in the world, today expands its scope and announces that the title for the most popular smartphone in the world belongs to the iPhone 6s. While most customers may not know how quick an iPhone can be after buying an iPhone 5s, they will never know what the complete iOS experience encompasses either until they buy a more recent model like the iPhone 6s.

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