Lenovo sells 3 million 4G smartphones in a year
6,00,000 units of Lenovo and Motorola smartphones were sold during Flipkart's sale last week
New Delhi: Chinese tech major Lenovo On Wednesday said it sold over three million 4G-enabled smartphones in India in the last one year, in line with increasing demand for high-speed Internet services from consumers.
"We are witnessing a strong demand for 4G devices. We have sold over three million 4G devices so far," Lenovo India Director Smartphones Sudhin Mathur told reporters.
He added that 6,00,000 units of Lenovo and Motorola smartphones were cumulatively sold during the five-day sale one-commerce marketplace Flipkart last week.
Lenovo had acquired Motorola Mobility in a USD 2.9 billion deal from tech giant Google last year. According to research firm IDC, 26.5 million smartphones were shipped to India in the second quarter of 2015, up 44 per cent on a year-on-year basis.
Lenovo and Motorola together had a 6 per cent market share, ranking fifth in the tally after Samsung, Micromax, Intex and Lava. Mathur said the company is also expanding the network of its service centres with the addition of 50 new centres that will cater exclusively to Lenovo and Motorola smartphones.
"We will increase this to 100 by middle of next year," he said adding that these will be based on the franchise model.