Micromax sales double, among top 10 handset vendors globally: Gartner

Smartphone shipments continue to rise and India’s Micromax Mobiles is now in the top 10 globally. Micromax Canvas 5 in this photo.
Driven by growth in emerging markets, global mobile phone shipments in July-September 2015 reached 478 million units and Indian brand Micromax was among top 10 handset vendors, research firm Gartner said today.
“Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users stood at nearly 478 million units during the third quarter of 2015. Continued growth in emerging marke