Google Stations have been popping up in Mexico, across southeast Asia and now in Nigeria with dozens of hotspots in five cities by 2020.
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Alphabet X’s Project Loon headed next for Kenya
Google's parent company has been experimenting with ways to distribute internet access from balloons miles up in the air.
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Alphabet X’s Project Loon headed next for Kenya
Google's parent company has been experimenting with ways to distribute internet access from balloons miles up in the air.
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Blass: Sony Mobile out of Middle East, Turkey, Africa by October
Sony may be leaving some of its weakest markets behind with this leaked move. Evan Blass reports that adjustments will take place in October.
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Apple localizes currencies in Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania, six other countries’ App Stores
If you’ve been using an iPhone or iPad in countries other than the United States and have had to pull out the conversion rate chart for App Store pricing, well, to be honest, you likely wouldn’t be reading this article in English. But you might do better off without the chart sooner than later as developers in nine countries have been notified that displayed App Store prices will switch from the default US Dollar to their local currency.
- Egypt
- Kazakhstan
- Malaysia
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Tanzania
- Vietnam
While iOS’s share of the global mobile market has been entrenched well behind Android’s, Apple has made slight progress over time in select areas. The company may find that serving these countries in such a small, but important way by setting price tiers in Pounds, Ringgits or Pesos could clear consumer confusion up.
MacRumors reports that in-app subscriptions and whole-app subscriptions will not be interrupted as the price conversion takes place.
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Samsung Z2 test unit appears at African Galaxy Note 7 event
Kenya got its first look at two new devices yesterdays that Samsung unpacked yesterday. Of course, you have the Galaxy Note 7, but there was also a Tizen smartphone that is being made out to be the crux of the chaebol’s developing market bid.Techweez got to play around with a pre-production unit of the Samsung Z2, a thick, compact phone that seems to think its of Note 5 ...
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Huawei Nexus redux spoiled in South Africa
Rumor has it that HTC will be making some Nexus phones for Google in the near future. Huawei has it that the company is also make a Nexus phone for this year.The company launched its P9 series of phones in South Africa today. Like the US, China has had strong investment interests in the entire continent for a ...
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Android One expands to six more countries in Africa
Android One is Google’s solution for its mobile operating system to reach as many hands as possible. Even though Android is free, Android One is designed with extremely affordable hardware in mind, and where OEMs only focus on the hardware, while Google deals with the software. Recent news have left us debating whether the service has succeeded or not, but today we see it expand.As of today, Android One has expanded ...
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