Mobile Devices Revolution in East Africa

Ahead of Jovago’s launch of its hotel booking application this month (September), smart phones are still ruling the market but featured phones are complementing them according to a survey done in East Africa.

According to the survey released by Jovago Tanzania, it shows that since 2011 Smartphone penetration remains popular compared to feature phones, by increasing from 3% in 2011 to 15% in 2015 and is projected to reach 33% by 2018.

But also, Samsung Metro being the most popular brand among...

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Africa’s N°1 Hotel Booking website, Jovago.com has released its first mobile application in order to facilitate the hotel booking process for its customers and push the ‘mobile first’ initiative of the Africa Internet Group.

Africa’s leading hotel-booking website Jovago announced the launch of a new mobile application which allows customers access their vast inventory of 25,000 hotels in Africa on and offline.

The self-developed Jovago.com Hotels Booking is a free mobile application for the...

 

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