Buoyed by growing sales, India will overtake the US to become world’s second largest smartphone market by 2017, says a report. According to international research firm Strategy Analytics, global smartphone sales are forecast to grow from 1.5 billion units in 2015 to a record 1.7 billion by 2017. China, India and the US are the three big countries driving smartphone growth worldwide. “India will soon overtake the US to become the world’s second largest smartphone market by 2017 behind China, selling an impressive 174 million units,” the report said. “We forecast global smartphone sales will grow from 1.5 billion units in 2015 to a record 1.7 billion in 2017,” said Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics in a statement.( Indo-Asian News Service)…[+]