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The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by cooldays(m): 11:05pm On Sep 08, 2015 |
I can't forget my first Android based Tecno smart phone. It was a black Tecno T3 smart phone I bought in the year 2011. That was four years ago and from experience four years is a long time in the life of a Smart phone company. With many competition for market share in Africa, I want to take a look at the future of Tecno Android Phones and how much of the market it once dominates, it will be able to retain. http://www.gsmgist.com/2015/09/the-future-of-tecno-mobile-africa-market.html |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by Whizpeter(m): 11:17pm On Sep 08, 2015 |
For those Who don't wanna waste data like I did
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I can't forget my first Android based Tecno smart
phone. It was a black Tecno T3 smart phone I bought
in the year 2011. That was four years ago and from
experience four years is a long time in the life of a
Smart phone company. With many competition for
market share in Africa, I want to take a look at the
future of Tecno Android Phones and how much of the
market it once dominates, it will be able to retain.
My love for Android started with the T3 Tecno smart
phone which was running the version 2.3 of the
Android operating system then. It is a 3.5 inches, 128
megabytes device which back camera was without a
flash “that will be also impossible today”. I won't want
to go into its details but it was a phone I loved. As
poor as the configuration was, I paid sixteen thousand
Naira for it "I was using a Nokia E5" four years
ago. Soon after, Tecno started coming out with lots of
other products and eventually flooded the market with
different categories of Android based smart phones that
range between eleven thousand to over forty thousand
Naira.
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Also, according to a 2014 report, Tecno is the second
highest smart phone sold across Africa. Samsung
“another Android based device" is first and the
powerful Iphone is third. But Tecno might not be able
to retain the second position for long. Or Tecno might
need to do more to retain the second position. This
might be due to the following reasons.
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QUALITY OF PRODUCTS
Tecno like all other phone manufacturers pride itself
over the quality of its devices. But I have seen a lot of
their products with broken screens and power switch
problem. I sometimes don't blame them because it is
hard to produce a top quality product and sell at a
rock bottom price like 12, 000 naira. My last tecno
F5 developed a power switch problem with the first
year of usage and that made me to switch to another
Android based manufacturer.
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OVER THE AIR UPDATES
Yeah, I mean system updates or any other updates
that might be necessary. A lot of existing products is
still lacking the ability to update over the air. This is
the ability to push update to users and have them
download and install wirelessly. A lot of Africans are
beginning to have asked for phones with such ability.
They are helpful in fixing bugs quickly and improving
the capabilities of the smart phone.
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Phone makers like Infinix, blackberry, Samsung and
many more are constantly pushing updates to the users
of their products. Infinix which is a close competitor
has even went a step further by making it latest phone
"Infinix hot 2" an Android One device. One of the
benefits is that whenever there is an update, it will be
made available by Google to the phone ahead if other
phones.
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COMPETITION
The biggest factor will be that of competition that now
exist in the market. When I bought my first Android
four years ago, unless a buy was going for a product
from high end manufacturer like Samsung, there wasn't
much option to choose from. Today, the market is flood
with some many Android powered smart phones. Injoo,
Infinix, Itel, RLG are all fighting for space with Tecno.
Hawaii and Lenovo are also gearing up to take a
bigger slice of the market. XIAOMI will be coming to
Africa this month and Nokia is working on a launch
with the Android based Nokia C1. There are many
other manufacturers that I am yet to mention. The
competition is good for the public but might affect the
profitability of Tecno.
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ECONOMIC FACTOR
As the economies of Africa continue to grow, the
people continue to get richer. This might have effect of
the way they shop and the type of device they spend
their money on. With improved financial status, a lot
of Africans will begin to purchase high end products
from Samsung, Nexus, HTC, Iphone and others. An
increase in the purchase of such products by Africans
will definitely reduce the number of low end and mid
range devices purchased by them.
The major solution for growth available for Tecno and
other Africa focused Smart Phone manufacturers is to
penetrate new markets across Africa and the Middle
East. There are still lots of countries within the Middle
East and Africa sub regions that is yet to be saturated.
Tecno must also improve the quality of their devices
and the experience of users of such devices. When a
user enjoys a product, he will recommend it for
someone to buy. |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by Nobody: 12:15am On Sep 09, 2015 |
No future for Tecno |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by cooldays(m): 7:25am On Sep 10, 2015 |
runzlord: I see them doing the Nokia thing too |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by ChidinmaRose(f): 5:45pm On Sep 17, 2015 |
Tecno has a very good chance of being at the top, they are headed there already |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by ChidinmaRose(f): 5:46pm On Sep 17, 2015 |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by Ana5000(f): 12:26pm On Sep 19, 2015 |
It seems to me that they will soon take over the Nigerian market. ChidinmaRose: |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by Nsonaso(m): 1:47pm On Sep 19, 2015 |
Ana5000:Well bro you better clean your eyes because with the Exorbitant price tag TECNO are tagging their proposed high end phone, infinix is going to take over..... Infinix Hot and Hot Note sold very well, and if you check bbs.infinix........ Infinix is releasing Android 5 for its 2014 smartphone which Nigeria has been clamoring for 1 Like |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by Ana5000(f): 2:55pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
First of all, I AM A GIRL. Secondly, Infinix had a good market strategy, they partnered with google and jumia and brought out andriod 1 with their latest device. What else? Nothing. They don't have any other thing to offer. Tecno is taking over the market ok. Nsonaso: |
Re: The Future Of Tecno Mobile Africa Market by ChidinmaRose(f): 3:01pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
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