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It probably comes down to age. Nowadays as you said budget smartphones brands are everywhere, so much so that even Sub-Saharan Africans farmers can get them and post memes online. The difference between China and India is simply that China has the older population, who may feel that at their age they have no use for a smartphone anymore while India's is younger so people from the countryside even if they're poor will be in a bigger rush to connect.I don't think India's figure is fake. In this age, no one buys a phone that is not android. Even if its just $100, you can get android phone. And with android you get internet and apps. So, its a no brainer that even beggers have internet these days.
The thing I don't understand is China's low percentage of internet users. Something is wrong with China's internet infrastracture that is making it too expensive or somehow less accessible to the poorest of Chinese.
Plus if the topic here is GDP per capita, China's internet penetration relative to population is similar to that of Brazil and Mexico's, so there's that.