Transsion, the top smartphone seller in Africa, posted the highest annual growth in smartphone shipments in 2023 of the top five phone makers in the world. The Shenzhen, China company shipped 95 ...

G smartphone for Africa is being framed as a breakthrough moment, one that could finally close the gap between network coverage and actual internet ...

Angela Wamola, head of GSMA Africa. While opportunity for smartphone manufacturing in Africa does exit, the continent’s fragmented markets pose a challenge to these aspirations. This is according to ...

ACCRA, Ghana — Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana’s capital as a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone. “I don’t think I could work without a ...

Africa’s smartphone market showed a modest 3% growth in Q3 2024, according to the latest Canalys report. However, the outlook for 2025 is less optimistic, with a projected growth of just 1%. This slow ...

The Pan Africa Gaming Group (PAGG) reported last week that a survey on the African gaming market showed about 92% of players play on their smartphones. An earlier survey by NewZoo forecasted that the ...

TECNO (www.Tecno-Mobile.com) SPARK 3, a smartphone model by TECNO, a global premier mobile phone brand, has been awarded as the smartphone brand of the year at the 2019 edition of the Africa ...

Africa’s smartphone market had a strong 2025, even as global growth remained uneven. New data from Omdia shows the continent shipped 84.4 million smartphones last year, up 13% year-over-year, the ...

According to research from Canalys (now part of Omdia), Africa posted solid 7 per cent year-on-year smartphone shipment growth, reaching 19.2 million units in Q2 2025 – making it one of the ...

ACCRA, Ghana — Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana’s capital as a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone. “I don’t think I could work without a ...

Africa has become a battleground for low-to-mid-range smartphones following high-profile launches of products from leading manufacturers in the last two months. In Kenya last month, Safaricom, the ...