First Africa-designed phone to make a debut

First phone designed in Africa has made an appearance in the market. Verone Mankou, the 26 year old Congolese entrepreneur has introduced the first African-designed tablet and has announced the first African-designed smartphone.

This smartphone will sport a 3.5 inch high quality IPS screen with a display resolution of 320 x 480 pixels and will run on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. This phone called elikia, has a highly qualitative design with curves studied in order to ensure both a timeless, elegant and modern making the user almost forget it is an entry-level product.

The phone has a processor clocked at 650 mHz and runs with sup[port of 512 MB RAM. The memory can be expanded up to 32 GB with a microSD card. The internal memory offered by the phone 126 MB. The phone will offer connectivity via 2G. 3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and USB.