A smartphone “made in Egypt”
- 28 déc. 2017
- 2 min de lecture
On December the 3rd, the Egyptian president, Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, presented the Nile X at the Cairo ICT Conference 2017. It is available on markets since December, 15th. This phone is made in collaboration with China. About 55% of the handset is assembled locally and the rest is manufactured in China.
The smartphone is produced by SICO Tech, a company which “aims to become the leading regional company in unique personal & business technology devices & solutions in the Middle East & Africa”.
“We want a revolution in the electronics game in the region”, said Mohamed Abel Azim, SICO’s marketing manager. “We have the capacity to push over 1.8 million units in the first few couple weeks since launching”.
In the past decades, the mobile industry has been flourishing rapidly in Africa and especially in technology advanced nations such as Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Smartphone ownership is skyrocketing that is why telecommunication companies are pushed to develop new products. Considering the demographic concentration, this market can only be profitable. Indeed, more than 226 million persons own a smartphone across Africa, with the number expected to sharply increase by 2020.
The Nile X retails around 112$. The Android phone has many assets included a 4GB ram and a nifty 13-megapixel camera. This is impressive for a 112$ phone.
Nile X is following the same path of Kenya’s Safaricom which partnered with Huawei to create a $100 smartphone. These low-price smartphones drive a digital revolution in Africa which will enable more people to have access to a mobile phone and Internet. Mobile phones can be a factor of development since it has the power to improve services in business, health, security, education, etc.
Will African countries be able to launch innovative project without the help of China?
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