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♻️ @grahamdowns@mastodon.africa Smartphones are very expensive in #Africa. In South Africa specifically, lots… Smartphones are very expensive in #Africa. In South Africa specifically, lots of people still use feature phones. In fact, some companies are producing NEW feature phones. Some of them run #Android, some run completely home-grown operating systems, but most have no touch screens and you're stuck with traditional [1-9]#* keypads where you press and hold a number to get letters, remember those? Browsing the #Internet on those devices is painful, to say the least. Oh, people have data. Data's coming down in price nicely. I mean, it could be better, and it probably will get better, but for the most part, Internet access is fairly easy to come by. It's the devices required to make use of the Internet which are beyond the reach of many people on this continent. https://techcentral.co.za/africa-has-a-feature-phone-problem/235714/?utm_source=Mastodon

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  The high price of smartphones in Africa, often the result of high taxes, is undermining the continent's digitisation.
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  Smartphones are very expensive in #Africa. In South Africa specifically, lots of people still use feature phones. In fact, some companies are producing NEW feature phones. Some of them run #Android, some run completely home-grown operating systems, but most have no touch screens and you're stuck with traditional [1-9]#* keypads where you press and hold a number to get letters, remember those? Browsing the #Internet on those devices is painful, to say the least. Oh, people have data. Data's coming down in price nicely. I mean, it could be better, and it probably will get better, but for the most part, Internet access is fairly easy to come by. It's the devices required to make use of the Internet which are beyond the reach of many people on this continent. https://techcentral.co.za/africa-has-a-feature-phone-problem/235714/?utm_source=Mastodon #SouthAfrica #Smartphones

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