Samsung says 4G phones will drive the smart devices market in India

South Korean multinational conglomerate company Samsung today said that 4G phones will soon be driving the smartphone market in India, because of the increasing data speed.

Samsung India is one of the largest smartphone companies of the country, and has claimed to have 60% share in the total shipments of 4G phones in the country in 2015.

"Last year 60 per cent of shipments in the industry were 4G devices and Samsung garnered 60 per cent share of that. Increasingly, people are adopting 4G, probably they are leapfrogging and many people will skip 3G. They will go from 2G to 4G straight," Samsung India General Manager (Mobile Business) Vishal Kaul said.

"Prices of 4G devices are also dropping and I see 4G being the dominant technology used in smartphones," he added.

Last year, Samsung had launched 18 devices of 4G technology, while this year two devices have already been launched.