in a first the top five spots in the india true wireless stereo tws earphones were captured by local brands as the market shipments registered 85 yearoveryear yoy growth in 2022 a new report showed on tuesdayaccording to counterpoint research increasing local manufacturing helped drive the shipments moreover timely sales events frequent affordable offerings and the entry of new players helped the country register massive growth last yearfourfifths of the total market was captured by indian brands their highestever shareread alsosamsung working on galaxy watch with builtin projector reporttech giant samsung is reportedly working on a galaxy watch which will be equipped with a builtin projector the tech giant has filed a smartwatchrelated patent which mentioned a projection display on a side portion of the housing and configured to display information on a display area adjacentfor the first time the top five spots were taken by local brands which captured twothirds of the total tws shipments in india moreover the majority of the new entrants this year were local brands saidanshika jain senior research analyst at counterpoint research chinese brands take a hitchinese and other global brands lost some of their share to the indian players in 2022 chinese brands were able to capture a 13 share in 2022 driven by oneplus nord buds and nord buds ce both realme and oppo also supported the growth of chinese brands global brands took an 8 share led by apple samsung and jbl jain addedwhy indian brands topped chartsas per liz lee associate director counterpoint research due to rapid growth in domestic manufacturing the contribution of indian brands rose from 2 in 2021 to 30 of the total shipments in 2022 furthermore homegrown brands including boat mivi and ptron ramped up their local manufacturing capabilities to account for 73 of the domestic shipment volume in 2022 other players like noise truke boult audio wings gizmore and play also sold madeinindia devices for the first time this year combined with these factors is a drop in the average selling price by 20 in 2022 how brands faredbota registered 89 yoy growth contributing twofifths of the total shipments boat airdopes 131 were the topselling model for the second consecutive yearnoise rose to the second spot with twice yoy growth in 2022 boult audio grabbed the third spot with a 7 share and 167 yoy growthon the fourth spot was mivi which grew 544 yearonyear followed by ptron which retained the fifth spot with a 5 share of the total tws shipments