{"id":117957,"date":"2025-11-04T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:35:10","slug":"counterpoint-indian-phone-market-grew-18-in-q3-apple-breaks-into-top-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117957\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterpoint: Indian phone market grew 18% in Q3, Apple breaks into top 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian smartphone market was positive in Q3 of 2025, according to Countpoint&#8217;s report. The market grew in sheer volume by 5% Year-over-Year compared to Q3 of 2024. But even more impressively, it grew 18% in value YoY. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because of an increase in the premium segment (phones above INR 30,000) &#8211; shipments grew 29% YoY, driven by robust demand for Apple and Samsung flagships. Apple secured 9% of the total volume but impressively, 28% of the value share. Samsung was second, in value terms, at 23% of the entire market share.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762284910_467_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Counterpoint: Indian phone market grew 18% in value in Q3, Apple breaks into top 5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vivo was first in volume of shipped phones and third in value. The brand (excluding iQOO) enjoyed success with its T-series midrange lineup.<\/p>\n<p>iQOO was the fastest-growing brand in terms of volume with 54% YoY. Motorola&#8217;s shipments grew an impressive 53% YoY, thanks to strong demand for the G and Edge series. Lava was the fastest-growing brand in the under-INR 10,000 segment.<\/p>\n<p>MediaTek led the smartphone market with a 46% stake, followed by Qualcomm with 29%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/counterpointresearch.com\/en\/insights\/india-smartphone-market-q3-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indian smartphone market was positive in Q3 of 2025, according to Countpoint&#8217;s report. The market grew in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-117957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}