Xiaomi's aggressively priced suite of high-spec handsets and market expansion strategy enabled it to take the top spot in the world's biggest smartphone market after China, said Tarun Pathak of Counterpoint Research.
However, it ranked Samsung as the top seller for the year as the South Korean company was well ahead of Xiaomi in the first half of 2017.
Separately, research firm Canalys said Xiaomi shipped 8.2 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, while Samsung shipped 7.3 million.
"Multiple factors have contributed to Xiaomi's growth, but the key reason for its current success lies in the autonomy that it granted its Indian unit, letting it run the business locally," said Canalys analyst Ishan Dutt.
Canalys estimates Xiaomi has 27 percent of the Indian market while Samsung is on 25 percent.
"Samsung's loss comes from its inability to transform its low-cost product portfolio," said Rushabh Doshi of Canalys.
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