Top 10 Mobile Phone Companies in India for

2019
Here is the List of Top Best Selling Mobile Phone Companies/Brands in India
1. Samsung

Samsung Electronics is a South Korea-based company founded in 1969 as a part of Samsung

Group. Apart from being one of the largest manufacturers of smartphones and tablets, the
company also develops, manufactures and sells other consumer products as well.

As of Q3 2012, Samsung is the largest manufacturer of devices running Google Android with a

46% market share hence the Top Mobile Phone Companies In India.

The latest Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker by IDC for Q3 2017 reveals that Samsung captured a
23.5 percent market share in the last quarter.

Read: Best 10 Samsung Mobile Phones under 20000

The market research firm added Samsung had a “record-breaking quarter” where it registered 39
percent sequential growth quarter-on-quarter and 23 percent year-on-year.

The company’s budget J lineup helped the company sustain its top spot. “Sustained J-series
shipments to its established offline distribution partners ensured that it stayed on top,” as per the
report.

According to the IDC report, some of Samsung’s bestselling models, the Samsung Galaxy

J2, Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt, and Samsung Galaxy J7 Max had contributed to almost 60 percent
of the volume for the company to become the Top Mobile Phone Companies In India.

2. Xiaomi Mobile

Xiaomi released its first smartphone in August 2011 and has rapidly gained market share
in China. Becoming China’s largest smartphone company in 2014. As of 2018, Xiaomi is the
world’s 5th largest smartphone company.

Xiaomi has revolutionized the budget smartphone market in India as well, both with their phones
and their unique marketing strategies like exclusive launches and flash sales.

Their budget offerings are loved by the Indian audience and they sell millions of devices each
year in India itself. There are a lot of reasons that favor the company.

Xiaomi’s irresistible offerings also include some high-end smartphones at affordable prices. It’s
own MIUI operating system platform is quite popular and has quite a following.
Talking about top Xiaomi products, the Redmi Note 4 was the best-selling smartphone in India
again as the company shipped roughly 4 million units in this quarter which propelled the
company to the Top Mobile Phone Companies In India. Xiaomi’s aggressive approach to pricing
its smartphones made it a clear winner in selling devices on e-commerce retailers and direct
Internet platform.

Xiaomi almost tripled its shipments year-on-year and doubled quarter-on-quarter in the last
quarter.

3. Lenovo (including Motorola)

Lenovo is a Chinese multinational technology company with headquarters in Beijing, China

and Morrisville, North Carolina. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells computers, tablets,
smartphones, workstations, servers, electronic storage devices, IT management software,
and smart televisions.

Lenovo (including Moto) made its comeback as the third smartphone brand and saw an increase
of 83 percent in shipments from the previous quarter. A couple of new launches under the
Motorola brand reversed its internal brand share and now Motorola contributes to two-thirds of
its portfolio.

Having entered the mobile phone scenario relatively recently, Lenovo has quite inspiringly
managed to climb the ladder towards being one of the Top Mobile Phone Companies In India.

After suffering some major losses in the late 2000s, Motorola, Inc. split into two companies.
Namely, Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility, the latter being the company’s mobile
division. Motorola Mobility was first purchased by Google, but it turned out that the acquisition
was mostly about getting access to Motorola’s many patents. Google soon turned around and
sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in 2014 for just under $3 billion.

. Vivo

Vivo Electronics Corp. is a phone brand based in Dongguan, Guangdong, China. It was founded
in 2009. The company is another Chinese smartphone maker to enter India recently. It makes
low-cost Android phones and those in the mid-range segment of the market.

The company joined the ranks of the Top Mobile Phone Companies In India in the first quarter
of 2015 with a global market share of 2.7%.

Vivo unveiled the world’s first smartphone with an under screen fingerprint scanner in CES
2018. It used the “ClearID” technology developed by Synaptics.

In 2012 Vivo released the X1. The X1 was also the first Vivo phone to use a Hi-Fi chip.
Developed by American semiconductor company Cirrus Logic. Vivo followed this up in 2013 by
releasing the world’s first 2k-resolution screen phone, the Xplay3s.
Vivio’s product’s camera represents one of its most important competitive advantages.

5. Oppo

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics firm based in Guangdong. OPPO’s major product lines
include smartphones, Blu-ray players, and other electronic devices. The brand name OPPO was
registered in China in 2001 and launched in 2004.

The OPPO R5, which was launched in November 2014, was at the time the world’s thinnest
smartphone.

OPPO had the biggest sell-in quarter so far in India. As vendor shipments increased by 40
percent sequentially and 81 percent from the same period last year. Vendor share also noticeably
increased as it started participating in the eTailers platform to sell its devices.

The Company has surpassed Micromax. Largest homegrown mobile maker and Sony, the biggest
Japanese electronics firm by revenue after its sales grew more than seven times during 2017.

Oppo Mobiles India saw sales surge to Rs 7,974.29 crore in the year ended March 2017, which
was a 754% increase from Rs 933.74 crore in the fiscal before thanks to it find itself as one of
the Top Mobile Phone Companies In India.

6. LG Mobiles

LG mobiles is the third largest phone manufacturer in the world and one of the world’s largest
technology companies. It is the world’s second-largest TV producer but manufactures various
other gadgets including laptops, multimedia players, and home cinema systems.

The company’s in a tough spot. It makes good and innovative phones but just can’t seem to make
a dent in a crowded mobile industry.

As we noted just last month, the company has only posted a single profitable quarter in the past
two years. Over the summer, it also admitted that its G6 flagship wasn’t selling as well as it had
hoped/expected.

7. Apple
Apple started in a garage in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Apple
began as a personal computer pioneer that today makes everything from mobiles to portable
media players.

Their phones are called iPhones (everyone knows this), is a line of smartphones designed and
marketed by Apple Inc. They run Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation
iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, and there have been multiple new hardware iterations
with new iOS releases since.
Apple has released eleven generations of iPhone models. Each of which was accompanied by
one of the eleven major releases of the iOS operating system.

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus were released in 2017, adding a glass back and an improved screen and
camera. The iPhone X was released alongside the 8 and 8 Plus, with its highlights being a nearly
bezel-less design. The camera improved and a new facial recognition system. Named Face ID,
but having no home button, and therefore, no Touch ID.

Apple’s revenues from India have doubled year over year. At the earnings call post-Q4 result,
CEO Tim Cook said. “Also, I should’ve said earlier our total revenue in India doubled year on
year, and so that the initiative in India really has a lot of traction.”

8. NOKIA

Nokia is a Finnish Multinational communications corporation and was founded back in 1865
with headquarters in Espoo. It’s one of the most recognized brands in the past decade, and at one
time it was the world’s largest mobile manufacturers in the world.

After years of loss after Android came into the market, Nokia sold its Devices and Services
division to Microsoft. The Finnish company is currently operating on the mobile and tablet space
under a brand licensing model.

Nokia though has had a fresh start with the Nokia 6. The phone went on sale for the first time in
India in August 2017. It went out of stock within a few seconds of becoming available at the
designated time of 12 pm IST

Nokia grabbed 8% of the Indian feature phone market making it No.4. The biggest jump in sales
was caused by Nokia 3310 (2017) and the new version of Nokia 105 and 130. “Nokia’s
aggressive feature phone business is a threat to Samsung as the comeback brand could dethrone
the South Korean brand in coming quarters,”

9. OnePlus

OnePlus is a Shenzhen-based start-up known for its ‘flagship killing’ smartphones. The
smartphones boast flagship-level specifications and features but are priced in the mid-range
segment. Its first smartphone was the OnePlus One, which the company used to debut in India in
2014.

The One was designed to compare favorably – in performance, quality, and price –
to flagship devices by leading smartphone manufacturers.

The company’s OnePlus 3 too stuck to the credo. Among the very first smartphones to boast of
6GB RAM and Snapdragon 820 processor.
In Q2 2017, the premium smartphone (₹26,000 or $400 above) segment, witnessed OnePlus
become the market leader. More than half of premium smartphones sold online during 2017 Q2
were a OnePlus, to be specific, OnePlus 3T or OnePlus 5. That has propelled the company to
become one of the Top Mobile Phone Companies In India.

The company’s latest release-the OnePlus 5T sold out within five minutes of the special one-
hour preview sale on Amazon.

OnePlus 5T also broke the company’s launch-day sales record and became the company’s
fastest-selling device in six hours.

10. HTC

HTC Corp, headquartered in Taiwan, was founded by Cher Wang and Peter Chou in 1997. The
company began operations as an ODM and OEM, and initially designed handsets for companies
like HP and Palm.

It is also credited with having developed the first-ever Android smartphone in 2008 — the HTC
Dream aka T-Mobile G1. It now sells smartphones under its own brand running on Android and
Microsoft’s Windows.

Google has announced it’s acquiring a $1.1bn chunk of HTC’s smartphone business. With it
providing the once leading Taiwanese phone brand a much-needed lifeline.

In the near past, it has managed to give us several high-end, as well as mid-budget smartphones
and more, are on its way.