A decade of Chinese phone brands’ evolution in the Nigerian market
Just a decade ago and few years after mobile phones became common place in Nigeria, ‘China phones’
used to be regarded as fake or inferior brands. These (Chinese) phones some of the time had the same
features as the more popular and highly regarded mobile phone brands but they were usually imitations
and they came at much cheaper rates.
Nevertheless, many Nigerians embraced these phones because they were built with more features than
the regular models of Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola and so on. For instance, Tecno was the
first phone to possess dual SIM slots, television, radio, Chinese games, noisy ringtones, lack of internal
memory, low picture quality, etc.
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