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Huawei smartphone loads Qatar’s most used top apps on AppGallery

Published: 15 Nov 2022 - 10:13 am | Last Updated: 15 Nov 2022 - 10:16 am
Qatari padel player, Mohammed Saadon Al Kuwari with Huawei Mate Xs2

Qatari padel player, Mohammed Saadon Al Kuwari with Huawei Mate Xs2

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Doha: Since AppGallery’s launch in 2019, the platform has been updated to boast a diverse and multiplying variety of apps that cater to the majority of use-cases. As Huawei’s official app marketplace, AppGallery provides users with global top apps and services, as well as a wide variety of local quality apps.

To put this into perspective with a couple of key statistics, Huawei works with over 5.1mn registered developers to constantly bring new content to the platform, with over 173,000 apps integrated with HMS (Huawei Mobile Services). AppGallery is currently available in more than 170 countries and regions, making it the third largest app store in the world. From news to social networking, entertainment and more, AppGallery covers 18 app categories so you can enjoy a diversified selection of some globally popular apps and services.

These are huge impressive numbers and are set to grow further. Thanks to AppGallery, the Huawei smartphones come boasting all the latest and top apps, including social media, ride-hailing, airlines, banking, health services, food deliveries are just a few to mention.

Top apps available today on AppGallery in Qatar: The Entertainer is the leading provider of Buy One Get One Free and discount offers from well-known dining, leisure, entertainment, beauty and hotel brands across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe. The company successfully transitioned from a print publication to a data-driven, tech company with the launch of the award-winning EntertainerApp in 2013. With hundreds of thousands of customers annually, the Entertainer offers 70 consumer products across 19 countries with over 8,600 merchant partners globally. Enjoy a whole new shopping experience with the MAF Carrefour new app. Carrefour allows you to browse and shop from your phone a wide range of categories, like grocery, personal care, baby products, electronics, smartphones and much more! Download MAF Carrefour App now available on the AppGallery to discover the latest unbeatable deals and offers. Carrefour was launched in the region in 1995 by Majid Al Futtaim, which is the exclusive franchisee to operate Carrefour in over 30 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and fully owns the operations in the region. Today, Majid Al Futtaim operates over 375 Carrefour stores in 17 countries, serving more than 750,000 customers daily and employing over 37,000 professionals.

Talabat: Since delivering their first order in Kuwait in 2004, talabat has grown quite a lot over the past 17 years and enabled its partners to reach new heights through their platform. Today, talabat delivers hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items, and other products per year to its customers in nine countries throughout the region. talabat’s food delivery business works with well over 25,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches. In addition, its q-commerce concept, talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce.   

Search and Download things you want through Petal Search As a search engine, Petal Search has two major features – generic search and app search. Through these, you can explore apps, news, images and more. Petal Search lists apps from multiple sources, including AppGallery. The Petal Search widget comes pre-installed on the home screen of the HUAWEI nova 9. Also available to download from AppGallery – Petal Maps.

Petal Maps is Huawei’s quality and convenient mapping and navigational tool, offering positioning services, immersive map displays, place searches, driving navigation and favourite place lists to users in over 140 countries and regions. Petal Maps supports map displays in multiple languages, with voice notifications in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Mandarin. Petal Maps is also equipped with cutting-edge functions to give a real-time publish transit updates in some major cities, helping commuters better plan their routes and take the worry off travelling.

 Utilizing pioneering technologies such as Super GNSS and image recognition algorithms, Petal Maps further heighten the accuracy and present users the most efficient and least congested routes.