India is the world's third largest 5G smartphone market

Technology News : India was the world's third largest 5G smartphone market and accounted for 7% (1 million units) of worldwide 5G shipments in the quarter. From January to September 2021, 17 million 5G smartphone shipments were made in India.

The country sold one million units in the quarter at an average sales price of $401 (approximately Rs 29,800). India's smartphone market will end 2021 with a single digit annual growth.

Navendra Singh, Research Director, Client Devices and IPDS, IDC India said 120 million units have already been shipped in the first nine months of the year (January-Sept'21), registering a 42% year-on-year growth with 1H21. It is expected to see a decline in 4Q21 due to supply constraints, reducing annual shipments to less than 160 million in 2021. The first half of 2022 will be challenging, with it expected to improve by the end of 2022.

An interesting case of selling an old iPhone for lakhs of rupees by modifying it has come to the fore. A user living in San Francisco modified the iPhone X and sold it for $ 86,001 (about 64 lakh rupees). Apple launched the iPhone X in 2017. The modified iPhone was neither made of gold or silver, nor was it engraved with diamonds and jewels.

Even after this, the iPhone priced at Rs 1 lakh was sold 64 times more expensive than this. Let us know that the launch price of the top model of iPhone X in India was Rs 1.02 lakh. Lightning port is given for charging in iPhone. This time it was expected that the company would provide a USB Type C port with the iPhone 13, but it did not happen. In such a situation, Ken Pilonel, an engineering student, installed a USB Type C port in the iPhone X itself.

Even after installing this port the iphone is still working. Ken later put this phone up for auction on eBay. According to the report of iMore, he put this modified USB Type C iPhone X up for auction on November 1. Gradually people showed interest in it. Initially it got a bid of $1600. Later this bid reached 86 thousand dollars. One bidder agreed to pay this amount.