In a vindication of what The Mobile Indian has said earlier in one of its article, a recent IDC report has now said that the dual SIM based mobile phones are now pushing the Indian mobile market growth.

According to the report, in July-Sept quarter of 2011, Dual SIM segment grew at an impressive rate of 25.2 per cent over the previous quarter. Overall, the Indian mobile phone market grew at 12 per cent in units shipped over the previous quarter. A total of 47.07 million units of mobile phone shipped to India in this quarter.

“Notwithstanding a sharp decline in the mobile service subscription adds during July-Sept 2011, the mobile phone shipments witnessed a spurt, as vendors built channel inventories ahead of a long festival season. Dual-SIM handset shipments were notable with a sequential growth of 25.2 per cent over the previous quarter,” Deepak Kumar, research director at IDC, India said.

Nokia grew its share of overall mobile phone shipments during July-Sept by 6.8 per cent over the previous quarter, Samsung succeeded in increasing its smartphone shipment share by 5 per cent over the same period.

For the quarter of July-Sept 2011, Nokia had 31.8 per cent of the mobile phones shipment share, followed by Samsung at 17.5 per cent. In the smartphone segment, Nokia still LED with a shipment share of 35.3 per cent, but Samsung came closer at 26 per cent.

Nokia’s loss of smartphone market share is understandable as it is shifting focus from Symbian operating system to Windows. While introduction of Windows phones have made Symbian outdated, Windows Phones themselves have not yet become hot sellers.

“From an operating system (OS) perspective, Android overtook Symbian to emerge as the top platform in India for the first time, with a share of 42.4 per cent of the smartphone market,” Rajeev added.

The Android platform saw a growth of 90 per cent over the previous quarter. The Apple iOS consolidated further, with a 3.09 per cent share of the smartphone market, compared to a share of 2.6 per cent in Q2 2011.

Several of the Indian and Chinese brands registered varying declines in shipments. Spice and Maxx were notable exceptions and saw shipment growths of 34.1 per cent and 10.5 per cent, respectively, over the previous quarter of April-June 2011.

Total mobile phone shipments this year is expected to be around 184.4 million units. Also, IDC forecasts the market to clock 301 million by 2015, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.03 during the period of 2011-2015. The smartphone segment is forecast to see a much higher CAGR of 63.4 per cent during the same period and to achieve a shipment of 77.5 million by 2015.

Dutch-based Mujjo, a brand associated with manufacturing of gloves for capacitive touchscreen based devices, has announced its entry in to the Indian market as well. With this the brand aims at launching its products for Indian customers in the coming few days. The capacitive gloves which are manufactured by Mujjo allow users to operate capacitive touchscreen based devices without having the need to expose their hands in the cold weather.

Capacitive touchscreen work on the principle of electrical conductivity and since our body is a good conductor of electricity every time users touches the touchscreen with bare hands, a small electrical charge is sent to the area touched on the device. This electrical charge allows the capacitive touchscreen to sense the location of the touch and initiate an action.

This is the reason why regular stylus and other things don’t work on capacitive touch screens. The Mujjo gloves are made of silver-coated nylon fibers knitted into the fabric of the glove. These silver-coated nylon fibers make the gloves conductive and therefore touchscreen compatible allowing electrical charge to travel from the fingertips on to the screen without the discomfort.

Also since the silver fibers are knitted in to the gloves it makes the whole area of the glove touchscreen friendly and not just the tips as found on many other similar products.

The gloves, as we mentioned earlier, also will be made available for purchase in India in the coming few days.

Spokesperson for the company said to The Mobile Indian, “Users will be able to buy them for a price of Rs 1,700.”

It looks a bit expensive but for the comfort many users would definitely like this product. For more information users can simply log on to the Mujjo website.

Early adopters of Nokia Lumia 800 reported of facing an issue with the battery status displaying tool as it showed lower than actual capacity. Nokia has acknowledged the bug and issued a public statement promising a software update for fixing the issue in early 2012.

Running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system, the Lumia 800 is Nokia’s flagship device that is being sold in India for Rs 29,990.

The closed enclosure design of Nokia Lumia 800 has been inspired from the Nokia N9 which too earned loads of oomph when it was launched. The Lumia 800 comes in a slim unibody polycarbonate chassis with non-removable battery.

Nokia had released a firmware update earlier this month which focused on several fixes and one of them was charging improvements.

Even after that update, several users are complaining about the different battery life status and that it does not show the actual battery capacity in the diagnostics tool. The Diagnostics tool can be accessed by dialing ##634# from the Lumia 800. In that Diagnostics Tool menu, if the battery status shows that the battery charge capacity is less than 1000 mAh then the phone suffers from issue. Nokia notes it as a software issue and states that the next software update for the device expected in the early 2012.

Nokia’s flagship device is being heavily promoted all across the globe while the Nokia Lumia 710 gets more of an underdog treatment. Lumia 800 is expected to hit retail markets in first week of January across India.