Local and Chinese brands to grab 20% of smartphone pie
Average selling price will drop from $309 in 2014 to $282 in 2015
Dubai: With smartphone penetration growing at a robust pace, a lot of home-grown and Chinese mobile manufacturers are going to impact the devices landscape.
They [home-grown and Chinese manufacturers] will account for around 20 per cent of the total smartphone sales by the end of 2015 and 38 per cent for tablets.
Megha Kumar, software research manager at International Data Corporation (IDC), said that the average selling price for smartphones will drop from $309 in 2014 to $282 in 2015 (Dh1,134 to Dh1,034) while the average selling price for tablets will decline from $260 to $250 in 2015.
Maintaining security is a major challenge for CIOs in the region; she said and added that security investments will remain reactive due to the accelerating innovation on social, mobile, cloud and big data.
