India to have 651 million smartphones, 18.7 million tablets by 2019

The country also considered one of the world’s fastest growing Internet market, is expected to see the number of tablets hit more than 18 million by 2019, according to the US-based firm’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) global mobile data traffic forecast for 2014 to 2019.
  
According to the report: “In India, the number of smartphones grew 54 percent during 2014, reaching 140 million in number and the number of smartphones will grow 4.7-fold between 2014 and 2019, reaching 651 million in number.”

The number of tablets grew 1.7-fold during 2014, reaching 2. million in number and is expected to grow 9.2-fold between 2014 and 2019, reaching 18.7 million, it added.
  
Speaking about the VNI report, Cisco Managing Director Service Provider Sales (India & SAARC) Sanjay Kaul said “Apart from smart connections driven by the IoE (Internet of Everything), the trend of low-cost smartphones will also bring critical mass to the sector and further drive user growth and data traffic in India.”
  
Cisco’s latest VNI Report gives us an insight into the exponential growth of mobile data in India as a result of increasing adoption of smart mobile devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections as the IoE takes shape in the country, he added.

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Microsoft launches official brand store on Amazon

“We see tremendous opportunity in delivering Microsoft products especially the Xbox and our Lumia phones to the natively digital customers. The Microsoft Brand store on Amazon.in will help us to reach more such customers and offer them some of the best deals on our products,” Ram Narayan Iyer, Group Director – Retail, Sales and Marketing, Microsoft India said.

Microsoft also announced some introductory store offers including  the Xbox One Assassin’s Creed Kinect Bundle , which includes three free games (Assassin’s Creed Unity, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag and Dance Central Spotlight), and an additional Wireless Controller.

The Xbox One Standalone bundle with FIFA 15, with a limited period discount of 5,000, and an additional Wireless Controller free in also available in the store. 

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