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India will beat United States to become the second largest smartphone market by 2019, according to a latest report by Boston-based global market research firm Strategy Analytics.
Beating the slowdown trends, global smartphone sales will grow 13% in 2015, it added.
"China and the US will remain the largest smartphone sales countries by 2014, making up 43% of global volumes," the report said.
The world's top 20 countries will account for 80% of the global smartphone volumes in 2015, up from 75% in 2007.
Asia Pacific will continue to drive growth, accounting for 54% of the global volumes in 2015.
Central Latin America and Africa Middle East will see strong smartphone growth by 2020 and will play the role of a new growth engine for global market, it said.
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