Top three vendors of tablet computers in India: iBall, Samsung and Datawind

IDC reported Indian tablet market grew at a healthy 23% in Q2 2015, recovering from a slow start in Q1. In Q2 2015, India tablet market clocked 1.04 million unit shipments with 22% growth over same period last year and year-to-date growth of 15%. This was mainly due to BIS certifications deadline on power adapters which was earlier slated to be May but then was moved to later period. And hence, few vendors pushed high volumes of their existing non-BIS compliant inventory into channel during early months of Q2 2015, according to IDC. Further findings shared by IDC includes: Indian tablet market continues to grow as market leaders compensate for shrinking volumes of unbranded players. Demand in the commercial segment continues to rise and this segment witnessed 12.4% shipment growth in Q2 2015 against Q1 2015, even as the volumes doubled up against the same period a year ago. Karthik J, Senior Market Analyst, IDC India says, “However, for tablet market to grow further, consumer demand is vital which is losing sheen as tablet as a category is suffering to justify its use case existence between larger smartphones and Notebook PCs.” Form Factor Highlight: Q2 2015 has been a great quarter for Microsoft as Windows-based tablets’ shipments more than doubled over previous quarter, standing currently at 5% OS share. New Windows-based products launched in Q2 at affordable price ...