New Africa-Only Smartphone Set To Disrupt Local Mobile Market

05 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone in Tech/Sci

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Huawei, the Chinese technology manufacturer, has launched a smartphone that is exclusive to Africa. Huawei has partnered up with Microsoft to create this device and lower the cost of smart devices throughout Africa.

Gustavo Fuchs, Director of Microsoft Windows Phone division in the Middle East and Africa said,

At first we are making the product available across the Southern market.

Which is probably because in general terms, we have a high number of cellular telephone users in SA. Nevertheless, Huawei aims to have the device available in Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Angola and Morocco.

Fuchs adds,

Affordability is important but without the right local content we believe a lot of users will not see the benefit in the change from a basic feature phone to a smartphone.

[Source: News24]

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