claycares:

@ocelot2006, you don't have to go about insulting people in forums. Forums are meant to inform people sir.
When I said ailing companies I was not referring to Huawei but MS. My statement was based on these market trends - Windows phone is in decline, PC is also in decline and that's affecting PC makers including MS. This is as a result of high demand for smart phones and tablet PCs. Also see what's happening to Dell presently.

4llerbuntu: some how the "for Africans" manages to come across as derogatory.

jmaine:

Yeah, i concur . . . .

I didn't mean the windows phone was dumb. I meant they had to do dumb phone specifically for dumb Africans. no other phone company had that line of thought.

The African version specifically stated that it will come preloaded with selected apps tailored for Africa . . . . Wonder why they had to tag it for Africa . . . .

by the way, they have a commitment with Nokia in making phones and Nokia had unparallel success in Africa fire a long time and knows the market well. why didn't they ask Nokia to make a windows phone specifically for Africa? they didn't trust Nokia? Nokia still has a name and presence in Africa. Why use another company?

Nokia and Windows Phone user training (Kenya and Nigeria): Microsoft has established agreements with Safaricom in Kenya and Bharti Airtel in Nigeria to accelerate local adoption of the Nokia Lumia 510 and Nokia Lumia 620 Windows Phones. In these markets, more than 90 percent of phones sold are feature phones, so through these agreements, Microsoft is funding in-store training for consumers who purchase these Nokia Lumia models on how the data plan works and its benefits, to help make these smartphones better understood and therefore more desirable for consumers.

Leopantro: okay, my bad on the dumb part.

Leopantro:
what is the meaning of "feature phone" and why do they need to train people on data use on the phone?

Francheezy: did he actually say lumia 900 is a feature f0ne...men am disaPPointed.....if it waz bb, n0 pr0blem.

Bawss1: Where is Tex these days?

ocelot2006:

Huawei ailing? Lawd, ignorance is a real disease! You're talking about one of the largest manufacturers of telecommunications equipment in the WORLD. ALL GSM operators in Nigeria and a lot of foreign service providers use their access and core network elements. And Microsoft? Yet you call them ailing?