Chinese smartphone brand confirmed as Number 1 on the continent as demand for solid but affordable devices soars among African users Cape Town, 21 April 2021 – Premier Chinese smartphone brand TECNO Mobile bested Korean giant Samsung for handset sales in Africa in 2020, confirming its status as the Number 1 smartphone brand on the continent.

TECNO Mobile managed to achieve this despite a 6.7% year on year fall in Africa’s smartphone shipments in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The IDC (International Data Corporation) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker had already placed the company first in Africa for Q1 to Q3 last year, achieving an overall 4th Global Mobile Phone Ranking.

Samsung, which held the top position in Africa in 2019 but faced “supply chain disruptions” in the first half of 2020, secured 15% of Africa’s total smartphone shipments last year.

Counterpoint says four in five smartphones shipped in Africa fall below the $200 mark (R2,900), and companies that offer solid but affordable devices tend to perform extremely well.

“The ASP decreased 15% between 2018 and 2020, and today over 80% of Africa’s smartphone shipments come from the below $200 band.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart devices capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.

From the realm of science fiction, AI has evolved to, in some applications, to match human performance, with the latest facial-recognition software having a 99% accuracy rate.Strategy Analytics, a company that shares insights and analytics, states that 41% of consumers believe AI will improve their lives in some way and South Africa isn’t lagging behind the rest of the world in its development and application of this cutting-edge technology, either.

“We’re seeing even more companies using AI in more daring ways through innovative products or services that disrupt the status quo,’ says Dries Cronje, CEO at Deep Learning Café, which specialises in AI to transform businesses to work at their optimum.AI is no longer a terminology in Sci-Fi or belonging to the realm of top science and technology.

Arthur Goldstuck of World Wide Worx, South Africa’s leading independent technology market research organisation, notes that smartphones are increasingly using AI.

The ability of AI to continually optimise the apps on smartphones, enabling much longer battery life, is a real plus in our country, which looks set to contend with regular loadshedding for years to come.Location World, that provides analytics to countries around the world, notes that 40% of people use the voice search function, which is AI enabled, at least once every day, giving people on the go the ease of having to spend less time typing.

“AI has made this tool an easy and simple application just by the push of a button,” says Stephen Ha, General Manager of TECNO Mobile.

Chinese mobile-phone and device maker Transsion will list in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market, Transsion confirmed to TechCrunch.

The registration application and issuance process is still underway, with the specific timetable yet to be confirmed by the CSRC and Shanghai Stock Exchange,” a spokesperson for Transsion’s Office of the Secretary to the Chairman told TechCrunch via email.

STAR is the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s new Nasdaq-style board for tech stocks that also went live in July with some 25 companies going public.

Transsion plans to spend the bulk of its STAR Market raise (1.6 billion yuan or $227 million) on building more phone assembly hubs and around 430 million yuan ($62 million) on research and development, including a mobile phone R center in Shanghai—a company spokesperson said.

Transsion recently announced a larger commitment to capturing market share in India, including building an industrial park in the country for manufacture of phones to Africa.

The IPO comes after Transsion announced its intent to go public and filed its first docs with the Shanghai Stock Exchange in April.

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