WHAT DRIVES AFRICA'S CELL PHONE MARKET

New mobile features and evolving technologies are driving Africa cell phone market crazy, according to research on user trends. New features such as fingerprint, face recognition, realtime GPS, 5G etc are responsible for most sales in the mobile phone industry. However, the stakes are not equal as some features present more influence than others. In this article, we shall examine what features that drive Africa’s cell phone market most crazy.

What mobile phone features are trending now in Africa? What specifications would you like to see on your new mobile phone or smartphone? We shall analyze those mobile tech features that Africa sought after mostly in this article.

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Most Desired Mobile Tech Features in Africa’s mobile market

Recent advancements in mobile phone technology such as HD selfie camera and long lasting battery life appear to be most sought after qualities in mobile sales. Furthermore, voice recognition and cloud data technology also contribute to Africa’s market penetration of the mobile phone industry. What else thrills you when you desire a new cell phone? Do they include the following;

Fingerprints
Sleek designs
High Definition (Mega Pixel) of front and back cameras
High capacity internal and external storage
Impressive processor speed
Great RAM capacity
5G network carrier
Long lasting battery
Fast battery charging
Multi-tasking abilities
Screen casting or projecting

The list of thrilling mobile features keep evolving and almost endless. However, there are latest features in mobile or smartphone technology not known to Africa yet. Perhaps for security reasons, mobile phone manufacturers might not want such phones come to Africa at the moment. Nevertheless, Africa presents the largest market for mobile phones globally.

However there are areas of high expectations being considered the future of GSM or mobile phone technology in Africa especially Nigeria. They lie in the mobile security and mobile tracking technologies.

The fingerprint technology has already been incorporated in most cell phone brands and phone models. The fingerprint features allows you to secure your phone from unauthorized access, only able to unlock by your chosen fingerprint.

This new technology works efficiently and is fast spreading in both provider and market acceptability. Virtually all recently manufactured android
Phones are fitted with the fingerprint security technology. After all it is no gain saying that the android mobile software operating systems the largest market not only in Nigeria, Africa but indeed world over.

GPS Real-time Navigation / tracking Technology

The Global Positioning System GPS Real-time tracking technology has not fared well in mobile phone applications. Although there are Maps and location software immobile phone app, they are largely inaccurate and do not work Real-time.

Apart from not having the Real-time GPS Navigation or tracking Apps in cell phones, most African countries and locations do not enjoy virile internet network coverage that supports Real-time navigation and tracking. Good internet data network coverage like the 3G, 4G and in some cases upto 7G LTE Networks are what are required for Real-time data streaming to function.

When made available, one can easily find his destination while monitoring his navigation progress instant.

However the emergence of the mobile phone fingerprint security lock and the GPS Real-time Navigation and tracking technology must not be the reason to raise prices of phone and render it not affordable to the common man.