It has been termed idiot smartphone. More than 70% of my friends who have purchased it have had to take it back to Safcon coz of HW failure<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Philip Musyoki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pmusyoki@gmail.com">pmusyoki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Seems like a good strategy for Safaricom. The key is not to move hardware, but create an ecosystem where owners or (addicts) of the now famous Ideos become huge consumers of data. I am sure they may be selling the phone at a subsidized cost but considering how these smartphones move data, soon their data sales may exceed voice.<div>

<br></div><div>I hope other players will not come back a few years from now and want to share the Safaricom Ideos ecosystem.</div><div><br></div>
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