{"id":29298,"date":"2013-01-05T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=29298"},"modified":"2013-01-07T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T11:04:04","slug":"tablet-pcs-to-double-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/29298\/tablet-pcs-to-double-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet PCs to double in India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sales of tablet computers in India are expected to at least double this year to 6 million, the market’s third year of growth, as new devices attract business users and low costs draw consumers, research firm CyberMedia<\/a> forecast.<\/p>\n

Sales are likely to have reached 3 million in 2012, up from about 0.5 million in 2011, the firm estimated on Friday, citing data for the quarter to end-September, when companies led by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd<\/a> sold 1.1 million tablets.<\/p>\n

With the launch of low-cost devices running on Google Inc<\/a>‘s Android<\/a> platform by local firms, sales of tablets and smartphones have grown rapidly in the last two years. A slew of global makers of tablets have also entered the market.<\/p>\n

In 2013, new tablets based on Microsoft Corp<\/a>‘s Windows<\/a> 8 platform and companies’ adoption of tablets for business applications will change the market significantly again, Faisal Kawoosa<\/a>, lead analyst at CyberMedia’s telecoms practice, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

India is the world’s second biggest telecommunications market with about 900 million mobile phone accounts. But computer penetration is low, and only about a tenth of its 1.2 billion people have access to Internet.<\/p>\n

Samsung had a 23.9 percent share of tablet computers sold in India in the July-September quarter last year, CyberMedia Research said.<\/p>\n

Local firm Micromax<\/a> ranked second with 15.3 percent of the market, while Datawind<\/a>, the maker of Aakash tablet, billed as the world’s cheapest tablet computer, ranked third, it said in the report.<\/p>\n

Apple Inc<\/a>, the maker of iPad tablet computers, was ranked fifth with an 8.7 percent share, the data showed.<\/p>\n

The average sales value of tablets during the quarter was about 13,200 rupees ($240), while 63.5 percent of the sales were below 10,000 rupees, CyberMedia Research said.<\/p>\n

By comparison, the Apple’s lowest-priced iPad Mini sells for 21,900 rupees, popular online retailer Flipkart.com’s website showed.<\/p>\n

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