Revealed - Smartphones, tablets, TVs Dubai buyers made No 1 at Gitex Shopper 2013

Retailers report growth rates between five to 15 per cent

Dubai’s Gitex Shopper 2013, which came to an end on Saturday, October 12, has retailers reporting impressive figures of growth rates between five to 15 per cent.

However what surprised retailers at Gitex was the success of laptops and netbooks, which continued to out-perform other categories.

Smartphones

The other major attracting was the smartphone segment. “Last year we witnessed Nokia as the number one seller in terms of volume, this year it could well be Samsung. There has been a shift from feature phones to smartphones,” said Khanzadah.

Most retailers were unanimous about the impressive performance of both the Samsung S4 and the newly launched Note 3.

According to figures released by Jacky’s even the Samsung Galaxy S3 sold extremely well along with the S4, following price drops. 
“Galaxy Note 3 was the best of all the new releases.

HTC One and the One Mini did well as did Lenovo,” added Ashish.
BlackBerry Z10 too witnessed better than expected sales especially due to price cuts.

The smartphone which until recently was selling for over Dh2,000, was on sale during Gitex Shopper for Dh1,200 and in some stores for Dh999.

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