(MENAFN) The UAE smartphone market has registered a growth by 41.67 percent during the July-September period of this year, driven by strong marketing from handset manufacturers and new smartphone launches, Gulf News reported.
The growth in the smartphones market is also attributed to the growth of shipments, which registered a market share of 76.47 percent during the third quarter, with expectations that the smartphone segment is expected to have 78 percent market share of the total sales during the October-December period of this year.
In terms of manufacturers, Samsung held a market share of 37 percent, followed by Apple with 12 percent, Lenovo with 10 per cent and LG had a market share of 7 percent, while the unbranded cheap smartphones have altogether held six percent of the market share.
"As long as Dubai continues to be a transit city with a large proportion of construction workers, feature phones will remain to be in some demand here. Additionally, phones have become the highest trading commodity. Dubai is not just a transit city for people, but also for phones that are re-exported to other countries from here," research manager for mobile handsets at International Data Corporation (IDC) said.
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