{"id":324073,"date":"2025-11-28T02:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-technology\/telecom-devices-platforms\/19409-how-would-a-sub-30-smartphone-affect-africa.html"},"modified":"2025-11-28T02:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:46:33","slug":"how-would-a-sub-30-smartphone-affect-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=324073","title":{"rendered":"How would a sub-$30 smartphone affect Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.developingtelecoms.com\/\/images\/stories\/Features\/African-smartphone-Guinea-2024_2.jpg\" alt=\"How would a sub-$30 smartphone affect Africa?\" width=\"8160\" height=\"6120\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>Smartphones are now so ingrained in our lifestyles that we see them as our gateway to connectivity. In developed markets, society is increasingly structured on the reasonably accurate premise that everyone has access to a 4G device, but in emerging markets, it becomes apparent that smartphones are more of a luxury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones are now so ingrained in our lifestyles that we see them as our gateway to connectivity. In developed markets, society is increasingly structured on the reasonably accurate premise that everyone has access to a 4G device, but in emerging mar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices-platforms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324074,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324073\/revisions\/324074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}