Ms. Thuy, a bank employee on Ba Trieu Street (Hanoi) wanted to buy an iPhone 5 for use, however, after searching all week at many large stores in Hanoi, she still could not find the product she wanted.

iPhone 5 gradually no longer appears in the genuine segment.

In fact, at many stores and large phone business systems in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, iPhone 5 is no longer in new stock.

Besides the iPhone 5, the genuine iPhone 5C is also out of stock, or is only sold in one or two colors and the lowest capacity version is 16GB.

Talking to VnExpress, Mr. Nguyen The Kha, Deputy Director of Apple products at FPT Retail, said that the new iPhone 5 almost disappeared on the genuine market when it was discontinued by Apple at the end of last year.

While there is a shortage of genuine new products, on the contrary, in the portable segment, iPhone 5 is still a model with great consumption and attracts users, even the average sales volume is better than 5S, Mr. Vu Hai, representative

A representative of Nhat Huy Mobile said that customers who buy iPhone 5 prefer the locked version, the average sales volume at the store is more than the international version.

iPhone 5 is still popular even though production has been discontinued since September last year.

iPhone 5 sold in the `portable` market is now mainly used or locked devices (carrier-locked products), new products are now very rare, even no longer available.

Classification of refurbished iPhones and iPads

Although the overall market situation is quite gloomy, the business community today still believes that the iPhone is a high-end phone that sells well in both the genuine and portable segments.

Tuan Anh