The first Huawei-made smartphone to use the vendor’s domestically developed operating system will release in Q4, the company has said.
Venezuela is currently undergoing country-wide blackouts that are leaving 98% of the population without internet connectivity.
Bangladeshi digital services provider Robi and Comviva-incubated fintech firm YABX have partnered to facilitate financing for smartphones for Robi’s customers in Bangladesh.
Nokia and Dawiyat Integrated Telecommunications and Information Technology Company, part of Saudi Electricity Corporation (SEC), will collaborate on multiple projects to develop the ecosystem for Industry 4.0 in the country.
The South African smartphone market enjoyed solid growth in 2018, with unit sales rising 7.2% year-on-year to around 13.5 million, and value growing 13.2% to just under R35 billion.
The Indian smartphone market grew by nearly 20% in Q4 of 2018, with data from IDC showing that Chinese vendors were the main beneficiaries.
Samsung is looking to regain the ground it has lost in India to Chinese device makers with a range of low-cost smartphones.
Russian technology firm Yandex has unveiled its first smartphone.
MTN has partnered with KaiOS to launch the world’s first 3G smart feature phones in Africa.
African tech player Mara has announced their newest product, the Maraphone – the first made-in-Africa, full-scale smartphone, soon to be manufactured in plants across Africa.
The second quarter of 2018 saw renewed growth in the Philippines’ smartphone market, with Chinese brands increasing their share of this market.
Korean smartphone giant Samsung may shutter operations at one of two device factories in China as a result of escalating labour overheads and waning sales in the market.
Research firm Canalys reports that Xiaomi has seen its annual shipments grow by 155% in India, taking the lead in a smartphone market that is growing yet rapidly consolidating.
The government of India is imposing import duties on a broader variety of smartphone components, underlining its wider efforts to encourage the local manufacture of devices.
Smartphone shipments in Bangladesh grew by 20.6% year-on-year during 2017 to reach a total of 8.1 million devices.
In partnership with Google, Mara Corporation is to release the Mara X for the African market in the second quarter of 2018.
CEVA has announced that Ceragon Networks has licensed the CEVA-X2 and CEVA-XC4500 DSPs.
IoT specialist Kerlink and chip company Semtech Corp have mounted an urban geolocation live-test in Aguascalientes City, Mexico.
Apigate and Orange’s new hub, Bizao, will draw on their respective geographical strengths across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, to deliver a suite of APIs to businesses, providing a streamlined and efficient method of accessing customers via a single entry point across regions.
Fabless semiconductor company MediaTek has joined the "China Mobile 5G Device Forerunner Initiative".
PayJoy and mobile distributor Allied Mobile are collaborating to bring affordable smartphone payment plans to markets across Africa.
Mobile technology disruptor and global service provider Truphone has announced the launch of its new IoT proposition Truphone Io3.
Device and application security specialist Trustonic has announced that its technology is now being integrated by the world’s fourth largest smartphone manufacturer, OPPO.
KaiOS puts internet access and smartphone features within reach of a much larger group of people.
BIMA affordable insurance and health products address the very low rates of insurance penetration in African emerging markets.
Smartphone shipments fell in China for the first time during 2017, dropping 4% compared to 2016 to 459 million units.
Xiaomi has taken Samsung’s place at the top of the Indian smartphone market after seeing its Q4 2017 shipments top 8.2 million devices.
Google has released a version of its most recent Android OS designed to operate on the lower end devices typical to many emerging markets.
When billionaire Alibaba founder Jack Ma wrote in an open letter earlier this year “we need to fight counterfeits the same way we fight drunk driving”, his sentiments reflected how bad the global counterfeiting trend has become.
Moroccan IT brand Accent has selected Spreadtrum's LTE platform SC9832 and WCDMA//HSPA(+) platform SC7731C for its smartphones.
Shipments of iPhones in China hit 11 million in Q3, a year-on-year increase of 40% that goes against the trend of diminishing smartphone sales in the market.
Apple may be granted some of the concessions it has sought in India as a condition for manufacturing iPhones locally.
Telenor Pakistan’s CEO Irfan Wahab Khan has called for the country’s government to offer subsidised smartphones to expand high-speed connectivity among Pakistani consumers.
Chinese handset manufacturer Xiaomi has been confirmed by Google as a partner on its Android One programme.
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