Fast-growing mobile phone brand, TECNO recently launched its latest Android smartphone, the P3, during a press conference at the prestigious Oriental Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.

If you missed the Mobile Web West Africa 2013 conference or you just want to re-live some of the moments at the event in photos, we’ve got your back! Here are 120 photos from day one for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

South African price comparison app, PriceCheck, today emerged ‘App of The Year’ in the Blackberry Achievement Awards 2013 after Blackberry users all over the world voted it for its most innovative use of the BlackBerry technology.

Last month, Olusegun Martins, a technology professional who currently works as Head of Technology for Insight Communications, the biggest marketing communications agency in West Africa released a mobile web app which he called the ‘Number Portability Movement Analyzer‘. Before developing the app, Martins was curious to know which mobile network would be the most preferred [...]

After two successive and successful mobile web events in 2011 and 2012, the leading mobile-focused conference within the African region is back in its third year with ambitious plans to take the monetisation and content creation dialogue to the next level. This year’s 4-day event from May 7-10 will feature a Mobile Marketing West Africa Focus Day, [...]

After about 10 years of working with South African media group, Naspers, Neil Schwartzman has finally left the company to join African digital music platform, Spinlet as its new Chief Executive Officer, Techloy has learnt. Born in Canada, Schwartzman studied Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. He later moved to South Africa where he worked for various Internet [...]

Google has added advanced features such as voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation to its Maps in four African countries, including Kenya, Ghana, Senegal and Ivory Coast. The new features works like a GPS navigation system which provides turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic re-routing and also gives access to information about any of the thousands of cities, towns, roads, [...]

Leading online retailer, Konga.com has announced that Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone — the Galaxy S4 — would be available for delivery from May 10 and has began taking pre-orders for the device. The Android-powered smartphone which was released on March 14 in New York comes with a 5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display with a [...]

Since it launched at this year’s Mobile World Congress in February, we’ve been anxiously waiting to get our hands on with Samsung’s latest tablet device — the Galaxy Note 8.0 – a mini-version of its 10.1 inch Galaxy tablet. The stylish and sleek device offers convenient, multi-tasking capabilities and the sophisticated S Pen features for the [...]

African mobile phone manufacturer, Mi-fone is reportedly planning to establish a $30 million manufacturing plant in Nigeria, according to BusinessDay. Citing the company’s CEO, Alpesh Patel, the business and financial newspaper reports that the assembly plant would come on stream by the end of the third quarter of 2013, who pointed out that the sheer [...]

Blackberry users around the world have selected PriceCheck’s Blackberry 10 app as one of the apps that demonstrate the most innovative use of the BlackBerry technology in this year’s Blackberry Achievement Awards. The app, which was built using HTML5 and JavaScript source code and wrapped with Cascades and some feature plug-ins, takes shopping to a whole [...]

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has announced that Safaricom, a leading mobile operator in Africa, with over 18 million customers, is using its LinqUs Cloud Backup solution to offer mobile subscribers in Kenya a comprehensive back-up service for phonebook contacts. The solution ensures that Safaricom customers can easily protect themselves against the disruption [...]

Sony Mobile launched its Android flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z at a press conference in Lagos today with style and glitz. The Japan-based electronics manufacturer which, not until last year, decided to focus on aggressively pushing its Xperia device sales in the Nigerian market would have to compete with leading phone manufacturer, Samsung.

We take you inside Samsung’s product exhibition rooms at its recently concluded Africa Forum, where the company showcased its smart innovations for the African market. From its 85″ ultra high-definition TV costing about $40,000 to its Galaxy S-Mini smartphone, the company had a great product display at this year’s Forum held in Cape Town, South Africa.

Described as the most affordable smartphone in Nigeria yet — priced at about $85 — the Tecno N3 seems to be outselling the Samsung Pocket and Etisalat Huawei (Gaga) smartphones in the Nigerian market. We got a review unit of the device in late 2012, and only until now got a chance to shoot a video review. [...]