Gadget Battle: Samsung top-brand, Micromax top dual-SIM brand [ebay]

India is getting gadget hungry and no one is appreciating this more than Samsung. From being a Nokia nation, India is quickly turning into a Samsung nation. eBay has released its Gadget Battle rankings and Samsung is a top choice across a range of products. Samsung holds a 31% share on eBay’s list. That is across mobile phones, televisions, cameras and laptops.

eBay’s Gadget rankings

1. Top Mobile Phone Brand: Samsung
2. Top Smart Phone Brand: Samsung
3. Top Value Phone Brand: Samsung
4. Top Mobile Phone Model: Samsung Galaxy Y S5360
5. Top Smart Phone Model: Samsung Galaxy Note N7000
6. Top Value Phone Model: Samsung Galaxy Y S5360
7. Top Dual SIM Phone Brand: Micromax
8. Top Dual SIM Phone Model: Nokia X2-02
9. Top Mobile Phone City: Delhi

Top Mobile Brand

As you see, Samsung has dominated 6 of the nine categories retaining the top mobile phone model, top value phone model and top smartphone model. It’s as if Samsung has let Micromax and Nokia have the Dual SIM category. Samsung itself has dual SIM phones in its Duos category and they are doing well for themselves.

Smartphones

Smartphones is a category dominated by Samsung with 35% of the share on eBay. Samsung is followed by Blackberry and Sony who were both tied at second position. Together (Samsung+Sony+Blackberry) command a 87% market share. While Delhi is a top smartphone city, non-metros Indore and Hissar made it to the top smartphone cities list.

Samsung Galaxy Note, a hybrid model, is the top smartphone model on eBay. Having looked at people with Galaxy Note myself, I am surprised by Galaxy Note’s success. May be there is market for these hybrid phones.

Value phones

Samsung Galaxy Y is the best value for money phone. There is no question about that. But how popular is it? On eBay, 40% of phones in  value phone category are Samsung Galaxy Y. That is an incredible feat. We have predicted Samsung Galaxy Y’s success in January.

Here are some interesting statistics which happen on eBay:

• A mobile phone is sold every 3 minutes
• A laptop is sold every 13 minutes
• A digital camera every 25 minutes

We will be discussing laptops, netbooks and tablets in the next post.

PS : The report covers January 2012 to March 2012 sales.

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