The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has said that 52 percent of handsets registered on local networks, in the first quarter, were smartphones, for a 10-percent increase in 2013, and 1-percent in the first quarter of 2014, Telecompaper.com reports, adding that the iPhone 5 was the UAE’s most commonly used smartphone, accounting for 2.8 percent of the total handsets registered on UAE networks.

And, the Samsung SIII was the second most popular smartphone, with a 2.7-percent market share. That was followed by the iPhone 5s, with a 2.5-percent share, iPhone 4S, at 2.1-percent, Galaxy S Duos, 1.8-percent, Samsung S4 LTE, 1.7-percent, iPhone 4, 1.6-percent, BlackBerry Bold 9900, at 1.4-percent, Samsung Grand, 1-percent, Samsung S4, at 0.9-percent, and Samsung Note 3, at 0.8-percent.