The telco’s fintech arm has launched a new Rent-to-Own smartphone programme, offering 4G and 5G-enabled devices for as little as R10 a day. What…
80% of new phones ship with Android or iOS [Report]
We’ve written about how large Android and iOS’ combined slice of the smartphone market is before. It doesn’t look like that situation’s about to…
Siri changes its mind on ‘the best smartphone ever’, Nokia isn’t impressed
When you ask Siri “What is the best smartphone ever?”, you’d expect it to spout some pro-Apple response like “the iPhone 4S, duh.” So…
Web traffic from tablets to beat smartphones by 2013 [Report]
Look, we all know tablets are selling in their droves. What you might not know though is that they’re about to eclipse smartphones as…
100m newly ‘banked’ people: What mobile money has done in a decade
It’s pretty much accepted wisdom that Africa has been at the forefront of mobile payment tech for a while now. But how many of…