South African companies, Sekoko Group and CZ Electronics are set to launch South African designed and built smartphone and tablet later this year. This follows the acquisition of 75% of electronics manufacturer; CZ Electronics which was established in 2002, by Sekoko, now renamed ‘Mint’.
The chairman of Sekoko Group, Dr. Tim Tebeila has said “We are enormously proud of the first mass-market smartphone and tablet to be designed and built right here in South Africa. Our aim is to provide South Africans with the choice of purchasing a top-quality, world-class product that’s affordable as it’s made in South Africa specifically with South Africans in mind.”
The smartphone and tablet will be manufactured at the Boksburg manufacturing plant which has a capacity of about 280,000 components per hour. Boksburg majors in electronic assemblage for the Telecommunication, Defence, Utility, Vehicular tracking and Data acquisition industries.
More details on the products will be available soon.
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