1 Jan 2008

Mobile phone manufacturers in Taiwan including Cal-Comp Electronics and Inventec have both entered into cooperation with local telecommunication vendors to supply entry-level CMDMA and GSMN handsets to India, where the number of mobile users is rapidly increasing, while High Tech Computer plans to launch an own-brand Windows Mobile-based high-end smartphone and is also expected tp work with India-based Reliance.

Although entry-level handsets still occupy the largest proportion of the India handset market, manufacturers in Taiwan predict that smartphone shipments in 2007 will have toted up to around 2,8 million units, while by 2010 the number will increase to five million.

The handset market in India counted over 225 million users at the end of November 2007, and by March of 2008, India will possibly surpass the US and become the second largest mobile phone market, after around 540 million in China, according to market reports.