Amazon claims supremacy in smartphone sales

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Amazon India on Friday said it had become the most preferred destination for buying smartphones and accessories.

During the first day of its Great Indian Sale, the company sold 16 times as many smartphones as on a usual day, it added. 

The declaration comes a day after rival Flipkart claimed it sold over 1.3 million mobile phones in India in the first 20 hours of its festive sales, double the number of orders compared to the same period last year. 

Amazon also witnessed growth in the premium smartphones category. Orders rose 300 per cent in Tier 1 markets, 450 per cent in Tier