11 Facts About Transsion Holdings

1.

Transsion Holdings is a manufacturer of mobile phones based in Shenzhen, China.

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Transsion Holdings entered the African market with its Tecno and Itel brands, and started focusing on the African market in July 2008, initially with feature phones.

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3.

Transsion Holdings set up its Nigerian subsidiary in June 2008, and had subsidiaries in seven countries in Africa by October that year.

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4.

Transsion Holdings was the largest manufacturer of mobile phones in Africa in the first half of 2017.

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5.

In October 2018, Transsion Holdings started producing smartphones in their new manufacturing plant in Bangladesh.

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6.

Transsion Holdings became a public listed company in September 2019 by listing on the STAR Market section of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

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7.

Transsion Holdings sells mobile phones in Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.

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8.

Transsion Holdings was the first non-African mobile phone company to set up an after-sales support network in Africa.

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9.

Transsion Holdings's phones offer a feature that calibrates camera exposures for darker skin tones, allowing face details to be retained.

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10.

Transsion Holdings developed phones with dual SIM functionality, which were well received because African users commonly used more than one SIM card at a time to save money.

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11.

Transsion Holdings released phones with long battery life, which are suited to low electrification rates in Africa and the propensity of blackouts.

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