{"id":5011,"date":"2013-02-07T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:18:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:18:01","slug":"huawei-to-enter-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/huawei-to-enter-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei to enter South Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Huawei\" target=\"_blank\">Huawei<\/a> and Microsoft have announced a new <a href=\"pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/f\/126\/Cellular+Phones\/f\/269\/Microsoft+Windows+Phone+7\/0\/tp.weekly\/DESC\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Phone<\/a>\u00a0for the African continent, called the Huawei 4Afrika.\u00a0 The last year has seen a significant shift in the mobile landscape. There is a battle at the top (Samsung and Apple) and one\u00a0 in the middle of the market (Huawei and Nokia). Cellphone sales is a key indicator of success for cellphone manufacturers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Huawei\" target=\"_blank\">Huawei<\/a> offering a cellphone in South Africa is interesting as they have attacked the Kenyan market. The Huawei 4Afrika is interesting as it features Windows Phone as the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The 4Afrika contains the following specifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a 4.0 inch, 800 x 480 resolution LCD screen,<\/li>\n<li>dual-core, 1.2GHz processor,<\/li>\n<li>512MB of RAM,<\/li>\n<li>4GB internal memory with microSD card slot,<\/li>\n<li>5 megapixel cameras with 720p video recording<\/li>\n<li>front facing VGA camera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to be partnering with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> to ensure that more people have access to leading technology, communications and information services,\u201d said Mr Peter Hu, Managing Director of Huawei Device, Eastern &amp; Southern Africa.\u00a0 \u201cBy launching the Huawei 4Afrika we will be bringing leading technology within reach for more people in Africa, thereby giving them access to a world of new opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is Huawei starting a new vertical? Well, not many other manufacturers have built a device specifically for Africa. Mobile phone\u00a0sales in Africa is an industry filled with potential and not many companies have created a candidate that is cost effective and highly functional.\u00a0 Huawei has tried a similar strategy with their IDEOS line of phones (which is powered by Android).<\/p>\n<p>The choice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">Windows<\/a> as the operating system is also worth noting as at the moment only Nokia has used it to power their cellphones. Huawei 4Afrika is a beautiful phone and looks to be\u00a0disruptive.\u00a0 Will the Huawei 4Afrika also drive app development in Africa?<\/p>\n<p>The Huawei 4Afrika will be available from Huawei in Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Angola, Morocco and South Africa towards the later part of the 1st Quarter 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/huawei-microsoft.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5012\" title=\"huawei microsoft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/huawei-microsoft.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei and Microsoft have announced a new Windows Phone\u00a0for the African continent, called the Huawei 4Afrika.\u00a0 The last year has seen a significant shift in the mobile landscape. There is a battle at the top (Samsung and Apple) and one\u00a0 in the middle of the market (Huawei and Nokia). Cellphone sales is a key indicator<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/huawei-to-enter-south-africa\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}