Motorola is gaining momentum in the Indian smartphone market. According to the latest data from IDC, the American company had a 5.7% share in the third quarter of 2024 in the Indian smartphone market. Last year, it was 2.4% for the same quarter. That’s a massive 149.5% growth, which no other smartphone brand had in the same period.
Vivo currently leads the Indian smartphone market with a 15.8% share in the third quarter of 2024, followed by Oppo with a 13.9% market share, and Samsung with a 12.3% market share. Apple is at 6th position with an 8.6% market share.
After Motorola, iQOO had the biggest jump of 101.4% in 3Q 2024 (compared to 3Q 2023) with a market share of 4.2%, but it is still behind Motorola. OnePlus is having a tough time, though. It declined from 6.2% to 3.6%, registering a 39.3% loss. OnePlus has also fallen behind Motorola in the Indian smartphone market.
Earlier this year, Prashanth Mani, executive director, mobile business group at Lenovo Asia Pacific, revealed that the company grew 100% by volume, the same in 2023, and is expected to continue the streak this year as well. The company had a 5% market share in 2023, and it’s projecting to double that to 8-10% this year. Even though it seems difficult at this point, its growth in the last few quarters has been impressive.
Motorola has recently fixed one of its biggest problems holding people back from getting a Motorola phone. It had a terrible software update policy. The brand offered only three Android upgrades, and that too, was only limited to high-end phones. The entry-level phones were hardly getting a single Android update.
Three Android upgrades are just unacceptable at a time when Google and Samsung are offering up to seven Android updates to their phones. Motorola has learned its lessons, though, and has recently started offering five Android upgrades to its new phones. First was the Motorola Edge Neo launched in September, and then this new software policy expanded to multiple phones launched thereafter.
Motorola is eyeing a top-three spot in India. While that’s a long way to go, the brand should be happy with the impressive growth it’s witnessing, and new buyers should be pleased with the extended software support.
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