One of the most important phones ever, No it’s not the iPhone, N8 or Nexus S. It’s the ideos from hiawei. It sells for $100 with $20 of credit included. In Kenya. They sold something like 200,000 of these in the first month. Its nots super high spec, but it’s far from shoddy. It runs unmodified android 2.2 - something most western ‘modified’ android devices don’t do yet.
Mobile is the web in africa, the power that devices like this have for transforming the continent and lives. The futures looking good for a $20 device in the next 18 months.
