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S Africa startup set to be first firm to make smartphones in Africa
Published Tue, Dec 6, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Johannesburg
A JOHANNESBURG startup is set to become the first company ever to manufacture smartphones in Africa, taking advantage of low costs and growing local demand to build handsets, tablets and other devices based on Google Inc's Android system.
Onyx Connect, a privately backed company that has raised 150 million rand (S$15.6 million) from i…
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