The future of Africa's smartphone market hinges on the ability of governments and vendors to tackle these structural hurdles. Canalys projects a cautious 1% growth in smartphone shipments for 2025, emphasizing the need for sustained efforts to unlock the market's potential. Africa's smartphone market faces volatile growth, hindered by structural challenges“The future of Africa’s smartphone market holds immense potential, but significant hurdles remain,” added Pravinkumar. “Feature phones maintained a 55% share of total shipments as of Q3 2024, limiting smartphone expansion. We provide quarterly market share data, timely historical data tracking, detailed analysis of storage, processors, memory, cameras and many other specs.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 22, 2024 12:27 UTC