Battery blues

From ET : Nokia's battery blues seems to have translated in rich pickings for some of its biggest rivals in the Indian handset turf. Nokia’s biggest competitors Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Samsung have all reported a jump in their handset sales in August even though they refused to attribute this to the market leader’s battery fiasco that made international headlines a fortnight ago.

According to sources in telecom operators associations, there had been a perceptible downturn in the handset buying sentiment nationally coupled with a decline in average revenue per user (ARPU) levels across mobile operators in August.