Dell launches its first smartphone in India during the year

Beijing Time May 22 Noon news, according to foreign media reports, Dell said in Friday, in response to HP's takeover of Palm, the threat, the company plans to launch the first smartphone in India this year. "We're going to post a smartphone in India later this year," said Steve Felice, president of Dell's consumer products department, Steve Phillis. He added that Dell would also launch more smartphones for the Chinese market.　　The company has previously released a smartphone in China. As a competitor to Dell, Hewlett-Packard announced in April this year that it would spend $1.2 billion to buy smartphone maker Palm.　　Although already leading the global PC market, HP is still planning to increase its share of the smartphone market with Palm acquisitions. Handset sales in the Indian market exceed PCs.　　According to IDC, the US market research firm, the Indian market last year sold 80 times times as much as PC sales.　　The 3G Wireless broadband service is expected to be commercially available in the Indian market this September and is expected to boost smartphone data usage.　　Nokia's share of the handset market in India ranked first in 2009, to 54.1%, followed by Samsung (9.7%) and LG (6.4%), according to IDC. While there is no data on India's smartphone sales, the popularity of many cheap shanzhai devices could hit smartphone makers such as Dell, HP and Apple. The handset market is becoming more congested and more divisive, IDC said. "The appearance of many shanzhai machines mimics high-end handsets, but only one-tenth of authentic handsets," IDC said. It is these shanzhai machines that have turned the market into the present. "In addition, because consumers are more sensitive to prices, leading operators to lower the rate of calls, so the current market in India is still difficult to implement unlimited data flow package."　　The cost of such packages is higher than 20 dollars a month. Still, Dell is expected to expand the smartphone market in India because of the higher demand for mobile services such as English learning and train ticket bookings by ordinary Indian users. (Ding Macro)