Economic slowdown could not affect smartphone sales in 2019; demand likely to rise in coming year too

Interestingly, there has been a significant rise in the average selling prices (ASP) of smartphones this year - rising from Rs 5,000-10,000 to Rs 10,000-15,000 now.

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Monday (December 30): The economic slowdown may have hit the sales of cars and biscuits in 2019, but smartphones remained out of the slowdown net as users in urban and rural areas continued to buy, and even upgrade to, expensive handsets.
Moreover, this trend is likely to pick up pace in the coming year.

The growth in smartphone adoption was further fuelled by the government’s push to position the country as a global hub for manufacturing and coax Apple and other leading brands to produce and export more phones from India.

Experts say that phone shipment is expected to see high single-digit to double-digit growth in India as smartphones aiding everything from shopping to banking to social media and, yes, perfect selfie!

By 2022, over 700 million people are expected to have a smartphone in India, and over a billion devices will be sold over the next four-five years, he said.

A back of the envelope calculation shows that over 115 million units smartphones were shipped in India in the first three quarters of 2019 with Xiaomi, Samsung, vivo, Oppo and realme making up the top five tally.

Interestingly, there has been a significant rise in the average selling prices (ASP) of smartphones this year – rising from Rs 5,000-10,000 to Rs 10,000-15,000 now.

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