While we continue to wait for the global smartphone sales numbers of 2019's final three months to be released to see just how poorly the market has performed last year compared to an , Counterpoint Research is focusing on one of the few major countries where shipments are still growing.

We're talking about India, which apparently surpassed the US for the first time ever on an annual level to become the world's second-largest smartphone market. All in all, 158 million smartphones were shipped in India in 2019, according to Counterpoint's freshly updated ...