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January 8, 2013

VMK launch ‘first African-designed’ smartphone and tablet

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by the BBC

A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have been launched. The products, designed by Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou, are manufactured in China. His company VMK’s devices run Google’s Android software. They will retail at $170 (£105) for the smartphone and $300 (£185) for the tablet. “Only Africans can know what Africa needs,” said Mr Mankou at the Tech4Africa conference in Johannesburg. “Apple is huge in the US, Samsung is huge in Asia, and we want VMK to be huge in Africa.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20850778#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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