The Indian mobile market was once dominated by all big wigs of the mobile phone industry, with Nokia holding almost 70% of the market. Today, things have changed drastically. With the advent of small players like Micromax, Lava, Karbonn etc, the big guys have already started feeling the heat especially in the race of low priced mobile phones, where volumes do matter. Smart phones are popular in India but the Indian mobile market thrives on cheap phones that serve the basic purpose and all these small players are doing the right thing to target such people to demand these phones. Nokia and Samsung are one of the two big players who have been suffering big time in this. According to IDC, Nokias share slipped by 5% in Q3 2010 and now Nokia commands only 31.5% of the Indian mobile phone market share. Biggest shocker is Samsung, who slipped from no 2 spot thanks to GFive, which is a Chinese player. Now Samsungs market share is 8.2% and that of GFive is 10.6%. Other big players like Apple and RIM are also giving troubles to already established players like Nokia and Samsung in the India market. [TOI]

With Symbian not really doing great for Nokia, in the race of the smart phones, one Poland based design studio has come up with a concept Nokia Smart phone concept that runs on Windows 7. Watch the video but I really really feel that, more than concepts and Windows Mobile, Nokia needs something like Android or Android itself so that it can be a part of the race.