Mobile shipments to UAE hit 1M
Waheed Abbas/Dubai Filed on December 12, 2020
The UAE, the GCC’s second-largest market for smartphones, saw its share of shipments increase to 24.1 per cent in the region.
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Top-selling brands are Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei
Sales of mobile phones in the UAE jumped in the third quarter of 2020, with Chinese company Xiaomi emerging among the top three brands, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Data showed that one million smartphones were shipped into the UAE in the third quarter versus 0.94 million in the second, when the country undergoing movement and travel restrictions in order to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. This was an increase of 6.4 per cent quarter-on-quarter. The top-selling brands were Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei.