Smartphone shipments in India totaled 9.3 million units in October, down from 10 million shipped in the previous month, and 4G models accounted for over 50% of total smartphone shipments in October, according to IDC

Online sales of smartphones showed an increase of 12.1% sequentially in October in the India market and accounted for 41.2% of total smartphones sales in the month compared to 33.5% a month earlier, IDC said.

Efforts by Samsung Electronics and Lenovo helped ramp up sales through the Internet in October, added the market research firm.