Intex Technologies has begun sales of the first device to license Jolla’s Sailfish OS.
Chinese device manufacturer Huawei is developing a bespoke operating system to decrease its dependency on Google’s Android OS.
Reliance Industries has agreed to a provisional sourcing deal for iPhones during Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first visit to India.
Nokia will once again become a global brand for mobile phones, smartphones and tablets following a new strategic agreement announced by the Finnish firm.
MTN South Africa has bundled World Panel’s SunStream as part of a promotional package.
Telefónica and China Unicom are launching Chinese vendor Phicomm’s C630 smartphone in key Telefónica markets in Latin America later this year.
Orange and Google have announced a partnership to deliver mobile internet content across Orange’s African and Middle Eastern footprint.
UPDATE: 15/12/2015 - Mozilla has backpedalled on claims that it would abandon the mobile space completely.
Thai market leader AIS has formed a new partnership with BaseKit to offer the latter’s website building platform to SMB clients.
Apple has established a new unit in Vietnam to facilitate imports and distribution in the market, which is seeing a huge increase in demand for smartphones.
India’s leading handset player Micromax has partnered fabless semiconductor design firm MediaTek in a bid to accelerate 4G accessibility and fuel faster smartphone adoption in the country.
Google is relaunching its Android One project in order to strengthen its position in the Indian smartphone market.
Finnish mobile manufacturer Jolla has announced that the first licensing partner for its Sailfish OS is Intex Technologies, the second largest smartphone maker in India.
Following significant successes in Latin America, the US-based device brand Yezz is expanding its footprint to Africa.
Jolla has announced that it is set to build a Sailfish OS ecosystem in Africa, beginning with South Africa.
Indian e-commerce provider Flipkart has pulled out of Bharti Airtel’s new Airtel Zero service, which subsidises data services for particular apps.
Microsoft 4Afrika has launched an online hub for Kenyan small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to access locally relevant information and resources to promote SMEs and improve trade.
Telecom Namibia has partnered with Finnish smartphone firm Jolla to launch the latter’s device, Jolla smartphone.
Finnish smartphone firm Jolla has partnered with the Indian e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal.com to form the Sailfish OS Alliance.
Ooredoo’s Indosat and Ericsson have launched a cloud-based Machine-to-Machine platform in Indonesia.
Globe Telecom has partnered with Google to launch Android One in the Philippines.
Orange is launching a new digital offer, branded as Klif, across its African and Middle Eastern footprint.
Asian group Axiata Berhad has launched MIFE, an Application Programme Interface (API) platform for all of its operations across Asia.
Cloud services firm acens has partnered with BaseKit to deploy the latter’s website building platform in Brazil.
Google is expanding its Android One programme into Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
This past September saw the launch in India of the first mobile devices using the Android One standard, which aims to bring low-cost smartphones – and by extension, internet access – to the previously unconnected.
Established Namibian ICT provider, Paratus Telecom, has diversified its offering by launching a new mobile airtime distribution service called “Katiti”.
Chinese manufacturer Lenovo is setting up a new company in China focused on low-cost smart devices.
Jolla has launched its first smartphone in India via an exclusivity agreement with Snapdeal.com, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is close to approving Apple’s iPhone 6 for sale in the country.
Xiaomi is temporarily suspending sales of its Mi3 smartphone in India in order to facilitate the smooth launch of the Redmi 1S, a Rs 5,999-smartphone that goes on sale today.
Mozilla is taking bold strides into the Indian handset market with the introduction of a low-cost smartphone that will retail for R 1,999 ($33).
The worldwide smartphone market grew 23.1% year over year in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), establishing a new single quarter record of 295.3 million shipments.
Microsoft’s recent round of swingeing job cuts will see 18,000 staff laid off. A significant proportion of this number – around 12,500 - comes from the handset business formerly owned by Nokia that Microsoft acquired earlier this year.
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