At Mobile World Congress, Orange partners with KaiOS Technologies and UNISOC to launch a phone with voice recognition at $20 in 16 countries in Africa and the Middle-East: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Jordan, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Sierra Leone and Tunisia. […]
Read MoreSamsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday said it will release a pricey folding smart phone in April, with specially adapted applications from Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc designed for the new device. The Galaxy Fold will cost $1,980 and go on sale on April 26, Samsung officials said at an event in San Francisco. The […]
Read MoreWorried by the recurrent cycle of fraudsters deploying their trade via fake and substandard mobile devices, the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in collaboration with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and other government agencies has set up committees to combat the situation. The two joint committees set up are the Project Steering Committee […]
Read MoreSmile, a 4G LTE telecommunications service provider in West Africa, has announced its new device and bonus offers to reward their customers. The proposed offers are affordable, thus making it easier for customers to enjoy the benefits that come with having a SuperFast and reliable Internet connection. Through the offers, Smile customers will upon […]
Read MoreSmartphone vendors shipped a total of 375.4 million units during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), down 4.9% year over year and the fifth consecutive quarter of decline. The challenging holiday quarter closes out the worst year ever for smartphone shipments with global smartphone volumes declining 4.1% in 2018 with a total of 1.4 billion […]
Read MoreGlobal shipments of wearable devices are forecast to reach 125.3 million units in 2018, up 8.5% from 2017, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. The growing popularity of smartwatches and greater wearables adoption in emerging markets will combine to produce a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.0% […]
Read MoreGlobal smartphone shipments are expected to decline by 3% in 2018 before returning to low single-digit growth in 2019 and through 2022. While the on-going U.S.-China trade war has the industry on edge, the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker still believes that continued developments from emerging markets, mixed with potential around […]
Read MoreGlobal shipments of wearable devices reached 32.0 million units in the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18), up 21.7% from the previous year. According to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, new products from the likes of Fitbit, Garmin, and Huawei helped the basic wearables category return to growth during […]
Read MoreThe MTN Group has announced a partnership with China Mobile, chip-maker Unisoc and feature phone operating system, KaiOS, to bring affordable 3G ‘smart feature phones’ to the African market in the first few months of 2019. MTN Group CEO and President, Rob Shuter, made the announcement at a press briefing at AfricaCom in Cape Town […]
Read MoreInfinix Mobility Nigeria has introduced into the Nigerian device market a new device, Hot 6X smratphone. Announcing the release of the new smartphone in Lagos, South West, Nigeria, Marketing Communications Manager,Infinix Mobility Nigeria, Tayo Odunowo, said that 2018 can arguably be regarded as the most competitive year within the smartphone space with OEMs putting their […]
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