Android smartphones, smartwatches and tablets are the trend these days and they sell like pure water. Nigeria still has low penetration of smartphones, smartwatches and tablets, that any smart man with some funds, willing to go into business can successfully take advantage of. These items are made very cheap in China and sold at reasonable price worldwide.

IoT is ruling the world today, with smartphones as a part.

So, what about investing in your own brand of Android smartphone, smartwatch, and tablet manufacturing?

Are you an individual with up to N5million, wants to invest or diversify into ICT?

Are you a company that wants to add ICT, to your area of investments?

Then GOOD NEWS!!! Smartphones manufacturing is for you and its still a very untapped area in Nigeria today.

Why don't you take advantage of the still low penetration of hot selling android smartphones to make it much bigger?

Why don't you go into ANDROID SMARTPHONES MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING WITH YOUR OWN BRAND NAME?

You don't know how to go about it, how to start or where to start from?

Melon Technologies is willing to give you a walk through, a guide on how to do it successfully, for just a token.

This is a very simple but challenging business. We were about to do it but we hit financial storm.

Now we are offering our wealth of knowledge and experience to any one who is passionate about this area of business.

Starting from hot selling brand name selection (not every brand name sells phones successfully), to hot selling designs, to OEM/ODM/Contract Manufacturing agents and companies, to finally marketing and marketing strategies, we at Melon Technologies can give you hidden secrets and guides like no other.

For a start, you will know 12 ways in choosing a hot selling brand name, you will get the seven factors that makes a successful hot selling smartphone brand.

We will give you the contacts of our agents and companies manufacturing phones for all these big companies you hear of, in China.

Sincerely we can seriously help to make your dream come through.

Talk to us today at;
Melon Technologies
08033689593, 08054033161(whatsapp)
info.melontechnologies@gmail.com


NB: Be ready to travel a lot to China.

God bless you.

Interesting!

When you involve us, you will get inside tips like this from some of our contacts;


Choosing A China OEM Manufacturer: A Practical Guide



The major and initial issue in choosing a Chinese manufacturer is determining whether the manufacturer is “real” or not. Chinese companies are masters of disguise. They use the Internet and sourcing websites to make themselves look much better than they are. But they can also hide the reality even on site. So you have to develop an efficient system for breaking through the façade to get to reality as quickly as possible.

The general procedure I follow and the one you should follow as well is as follows.

First, you or your representative have to visit the factory personally. It is shocking how much variation there is in manufacturing systems even within developed areas such as Dongguan, Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Factories making a virtually identical product can range from those using primitive hand techniques from the 1930s all the way to those that use state of the art German or Japanese automated equipment. You cannot believe what the factory says about its systems and you cannot believe the photos they provide. You must go to look personally.

Second, when you visit the factory you have to use your time efficiently. You goal must be to determine whether the factory is real or is it a Potemkin village or movie set, composed of all surface and no substance. What every foreign buyer must realize is that any factory owner can create the illusion of being a strong business by putting on a show for the foreign buyer. The buyer arrives to see a buzzing, active factory with all assembly lines moving at full speed. As soon as the buyer leaves, the place shuts down again, waiting for the next victim to arrive.

I usually do the following to break through to reality:

I refuse to visit the factory floor first. The Chinese side is always upset about this decision. I just make clear that I have other things I want to do first.

The first place I visit is the raw materials warehouse. Is the warehouse full or empty? An empty warehouse is almost always a sign of a manufacturer that is struggling. If the warehouse is full, I then look to see what sort of material is in the warehouse. Are the materials consistent with what the manufacturer says it produces? Are the suppliers local, national or international? Do I recognize any of the suppliers? Are the suppliers reputable? I next like to visit is the shipping warehouse. If the export warehouse is empty, this is an obvious signal that the manufacturer has no current business. If the warehouse if full, I then check whether the deliveries are for China internal markets or for export. If for export, I then check what the destinations for the product. Are they headed for countries that generally have buyers that care about product quality? I also pay close attention to the packing of the product and loading procedure.

You can tell a lot about a company by the way it loads the product into a container. My next visit is to the finance office of the manufacturer. I just sit on a chair for about an hour and observe what is going on. If there is no activity, I know the company is dead. If there is activity, I then observe. Is cash moving in and out of the safe?

A company that relies on cash transactions is typically not part of an international sales market. Reliance mostly on cash evidences a local player with little China national and international business.

My next stop is the sales department of the company. Again, the first thing I observe is whether the department is busy. Are the sales people taking orders and working with purchase orders and invoices and receipts, or are they drinking tea and staring out the window? What language are they speaking? Are they talking in Chinese or English? No English means no international business. Finally, I just sit in a corner and listen.

This can be very valuable. For example, in a recent factory visit I noted that 100% of the phone calls to the sales department consisted of customer complaints about late delivery, short delivery, incorrect delivery and faulty product. That told me all I needed to know about that company.

Finally, after all this back office visiting, I am ready to look at the factory.

Here, I further frustrate the factory owner by refusing to look at the work shop floor. Instead, I make clear that I want to visit the quality control department. If there is no QC department, that tells me everything. If there is a QC department, once again I just take a chair in the corner and watch. My goal is to determine what happens when a quality problem is discovered. Do the QC people go out to the factory floor to see what happened? Do they just pull out the defective item with no further action? Or do they do absolutely nothing? What happens to the defective item? Is it destroyed or is it put aside, presumably for sale in the local market. Some manufacturers will take you to their QC/RD laboratory. The same basic rules apply for this visit. Does the lab show signs of use, or it is just a fancy showroom designed to fool gullible foreigners?

I recently visited such a lab at the offices of a food manufacturer. The equipment was beautiful. In fact, it was so beautiful that it was quite obvious that none of the QC and testing equipment had ever been used. Finally I will visit the factory floor. By this time I have a pretty good idea what is going on at the factory. The factory floor visit is usually just a check on the equipment being used and the QC procedure is in effect.

Once you get used to using an approach like the one I use above, you will find that you can weed out the bad factories very quickly. In my experience, good factories are rare. If your initial review suggests that the factory is a good one, you should take the time to move to the next stage of discussing whether or not you can really do business with the factory. Any good factory will also be very busy. You need to have an honest discussion about what you want to have made, in what quantity and in what time frame. On the other hand, if you reject a factory, make your departure as soon as possible. Do not fall into the trap of wasting time going to lunch or dinner with the factory people that fall into the obvious reject list.

On the other hand, if the good factories invite you to lunch or dinner, take the time to go. Good factories are rare and you should work immediately to build a relationship.

Why You MUST Have A China OEM Agreement.

Recently received an email from S D, who is based in China. I have removed all of the names and any other potential identifiers, but have retained the gist of the story.

My firm has gone through nearly this exact same scenario at least a half a dozen times over the last few years.

Here it is:
I met with X Company [new client] yesterday. In our discussion, X Company asked about supply agreements. I said they are necessary and that one important part was to provide no copying, no placing of products in the supplier show room and no placing of the product in the supplier catalog. As a remark, I said: “The reason you need all this is to try to prevent the supplier from copying your line and selling it as their own. You will really feel bad when you go to a trade show and see you entire product line for sale with all your products on display and in your suppliers own catalog.

This morning, X Company called me to say they had just received a call from one of their employees attending a trade show in a city outside China. Their supplier from China was at the show. On display was X Company’s entire product line down to the part numbers with all the products on display and all of this in their supplier’s own catalog. So now I am trying to deal with this issue.

Another interesting point. They actually have a really complete supply agreement from a New York law firm. The agreement is subject to New York law, excludes CISG [United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods] and provides for UNCITRAL arbitration in Hong Kong. Meaning, of course, that by law they have absolutely no remedy in China against the offending party. In fact, their 18 page supply agreement does not deal with any of the real issues involved in China and it takes the stance that China and Chinese law do not exist. I do not see us being able to get any sort of injunctive relief here to stop this Chinese company quickly.

Bottom Line: Get a good supply (OEM) agreement that provides you with the possibility of securing injunctive relief in China. This oftentimes can be achieved using a carve out from arbitration. This provision will be what will allow you to go to the Chinese courts for an order requiring your supplier to do something such as stop exhibiting and selling your products.

OEM Agreements With Your China Supplier: Not Just For The Big Boys.


A good portion of my lf’s work comes from China outsourcing consultants. The smart ones are sure to tell their clients they need to register their trade names in China and have a China lawyer draft their OEM agreements with their China suppliers.

I say the smart ones do this because those who don’t run the very real risk of later being sued for not having made these suggestions. Once the consultant makes this recommendation though, he or she has to a large extent freed themselves of future legal liability and need not worry all that much about whether their client goes forward with registering their trademark in China or using an OEM agreement or not.

A consultant from an emerging market country wrote me the other day saying he thought it would be good if his clients were to have well-crafted OEM agreements with their Chinese suppliers, but when I told him what we typically charge to do these agreements in Chinese and in English, he said he questioned the value of such an agreement since most of his clients would not have enough money to sue anyway.

I then told him that a good OEM agreement is particularly valuable for those sorts of clients:

Ninety percent of the value of a good OEM contract is that it prevents the need to sue. Having one of these in place means the Chinese company KNOWS not to mess around because it will get sued and lose, so it chooses to follow the contract. Not only that, but lawsuits on a strong OEM Agreement don’t really cost all that much in China and if you have properly written into the agreement that the prevailing party gets its attorneys’ fees, such a lawsuit can end up costing next to nothing. If anything, such an agreement is more important for the small company than for the large one because it acts so well to prevent the one bad shipment that puts the small company under.

We(our contacts) have probably written at least 100 of these and I am not aware of a single time where the client has had to come back to us wanting to sue its Chinese supplier. And if it did, I can tell you that having a really good contract in place (in Chinese) would make going after the Chinese supplier a whole lot easier and cheaper than not having an OEM contract at all.

What do you think?

How do you like to see your company's logo on this sweet ultra slim baby.

The phone we are discussing with a company for OEM/ODM.


HOW DO YOU LIKE THE SHAPE SEXY RIGHT?

Wow! Its getting hot already. Discussion on going with this Mega industrialist at Nnewi, my area.

Trust Nnewi billionaires always eager to explore every business opportunity. That's my people.

But, we can still accommodate 2 or 3 more companies before we get very busy.

Below is the extra summarized android smartphone manufacturing business proposal I prepared for the industrialist.

He said I should summarize it to only 1 page. The best I can do is 4 pages, if I go down more it will loose a lot of content.

Even this one has lost a lot of content, no charts, no drawings, no tables. But since we are going sit down and go through it one by one, I hope to bring more details during explanation.

Do you have funds? Are you crazy about android smartphones like me? Can you afford to travel to China? Why can't you hit me up lets discuss about it.

My contacts is as stated above.

Meanwhile, Chinese android smartphone manufacturing companies are sending me the pictures of their devices but am yet to see ones that meet my specifications.

The ones that meets my target are mainly 5.0" smartphone but am considering a 4.5" BUDGET devices at this time because of the result of my survey.

And because ........ . . .

Sorry, I will not disclose the reasons here, its a trade secret.

Below is the phone that came very close to my target.

Melon Technologies
08033689593, 08054033161(whatsapp)
info.melontechnologies@Gmail.com

Types of Android smartphones

I won't go into details. I believe everyone knows about these. Its just to refresh our memory.

1) Low end/Budget/Entry level Android smartphones: these phones has small screens and basic features you need to enjoy a smartphone experience. Most android one phones fit in here. Tecno N3, M3, L3, H3 etc fit into this class.

2) Mid range smartphones: These ones has advanced features as compared to budget smartphones, but some of their features are also basic, some high end. Tecno phantom A, A+, Camon series etc fit in here.

3) High end smartphones: These phones are feature studded. Ranging from FHD screens to finger print scanner, to 2k screens, to full customized UI, metal frame, multi core processor, advanced camera, special audio chip/technology, fast charging/wireless charging, etc. Tecno phantom 5, Samsung Galaxy S4,S5,S6, Google Nexus, Huawei P series, Sony xperia Z, LG Optimus, Xiaomi Mi4, Letv le Max, ZTE Nubia, Apple Iphone etc fit into this range.

Some companies are in the habit of producing High end smartphones and markets them as mid range or mid range and markets them as entry level smartphones.

This is to gain market easily amid low profit. I like this strategy though.

Ways of producing Android smartphones

(1) Full(In-house) Manufacturing(FM)
Here a company makes their phones from start to finish, in house, without consulting any other company. All the components on their phones are manufactured by them and assembled by them. This is very capital intensive and it is for very big companies. Samsung does this.

2) Contract Manufacturing(CM/EMS)
Here a company designs its own smartphone, sources/procures parts and then goes into agreement with another company to finish the production and assembling. Foxconn contract manufactures for Apple Iphone, Huawei, Xiaomi. Inventec contract manufactures Redmi series for Xiaomi. Coolpad contract manufactures for Letv and Qiku. ZTE contract manufactures Yotaphone, a Russian dual screen phone. SIM contract manufactures for Smartisan etc.

3) Original Design Manufacturing(ODM)
Here a company finds a full manufactured phone, meets the company producing it, gives them directives on how to modify the phone and produce for them. Maybe, originally in design, the phone has dual core processor, 5mp back camera, but the company desire a quad core processor and 13mp back camera etc. They can tell the company to modify and produce the phone for them this way. This is called ODM. I recommend this for very rich start up companies.

4) Original Equipment Manufacturing(OEM)
This is the simplest, easiest, fastest, cost effective, profitable, start up very friendly manufacturing method. For this thread this is the type of manufacturing we are advocating. It is when a company sees a smartphone they like, from another producing company, they approach them to customize and print their logo on the smartphone, without any form of hardware modifications at all.
I recommend this type of manufacturing for any Nigerian start up. I suspect, Tecno did this with a Japanese company called Alps for phantom A, A+. Alps also produced the same phone for an Indian company Xolo.

We know many companies in China that can easily and cheaply do OEM for any Nigerian start up. The Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) for OEM in China is 3000 pieces. But with special arrangement you can make 1000pieces.

Very soon we will have "Custom Manufacturing" added. Where anyone can go to stores, pick up components according to his/her own desired specs, go home and couple them together. Anytime he/she feels tired of a component, he/she can remove it and put in a better components. Thanks to Google "PROJECT ARA" modular manufacturing, where google hopes to make android smartphone manufacturing open source.

Till then, thank you all.

Stages in producing Your own android smartphones brand.

This can be broken down by me into;
1) Preparations.
Mental preparation and physical preparations, as we are discussing.

2) Establishment.
Provision of your space and accommodation. Like office, warehouse, showroom, service center etc.

3) Sourcing and Legalization.

This involves sourcing for technical partners, factory visits, signing contracts and agreements. Contacting 3rd party QC inspectors etc.
This is where the real work is. Here you have to make a lot of travels. Spend a lot of money in hotel bookings and with 3rd party law and inspection firms.

4) Production and marketing.
This involves payment. We will look at a lot of payment schemes like FOB, TT, WESTERN UNION, EXW, LC etc. Then 30% after 3rd party factory audit etc. QC inspection and reporting takes place here. Shipping, company branding, employees, salaries and different forms of marketing.

5) Profit! Profit! Profit!
As the money rolls in we don't need to get carried away. Ways to keep growing.

6) After Sales support.
Updates, servicing, repairs comes in here.

Note: Sorry, I may not finish all of them. Because I might get tired a long the way.








Stage 1: Mental Preparation.
After deciding to come out with your own brand, the next is to develop the right attitude and mind set, because its not all that easy. But it becomes easy with the right attitudes and mentality. Attitudes like; believe in oneself, passion for smartphones, self truth, probing studies, proper planning, persistent practice(hard work), cool headed patience and prayerfulness.

Its good to be service oriented not necessarily profit oriented(I know you need profit, but don't place it first). Place service, customer satisfaction and growth first, profits will come.

Then look inside your pocket and be convinced that you can afford N15 million(in Nigerian context), one way or the other.

Let me hint again; "its not all that easy". Be ready to encounter challenges and fight. Nothing good, innovative and ground breaking is, but people still do it. People who does it, doesn't have two heads, they are like you and me.

Really, you need a "can do spirit", you also need to make up your mind to persist until you breakthrough.

If you have successfully done your mental preparation, lets move on.

Stage 2: Physical Preparation.
Before you proceed to producing and marketing your own brand of smartphones proper, you need to sit down and do some preparations, or else you will fail woefully. Some companies rushed into it, just because they feel they can do it, to grab large profits, maybe because a particular company is making it, but they failed woefully.

Tecno did lots of preparations for 6 years from 2006 to 2012 before they came out with their first android smartphone (Tecno N3) and it became a great success. One of the preparation they did was to create a ....... . They researched, invested, prepared, worked hard. Infact, I don't believe that any company can jump in today and match Tecno. Any company that can match them needs to bend down now and work hard for at least next 10 years and look in the directions that Tecno is not looking.

You need to prepare and work hard. Here you must ask yourself lots of questions, research and find answers to them truthfully, if the answers does not look good and favorable, please better QUIT.

Step 1- Identify your target market:- Are you interested in American market, European market, Chinese domestic market, Indian market, Asian market, African market etc? What are the uniqueness of the market? Can I explore and exploit these uniqueness? Who do you want to make phones for? Who are your potential customers? Which type of smartphone is generally preferred by this market? What are the existing competitions in this target market? How can I beat these competitions? What are the risks? What is the purchasing power of this market like? Can I be able to produce a unique smartphone for this market? How can I easily and cost effectively find companies to help me fulfill the need of this market? And so on.

Please you need to find truthful answers to these questions and more, before you move on. And the answers must look favourable before you move on. DONT DECEIVE YOURSELF AND DON'T WASTE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.


Watch out for Step 2: Invent your BRAND(Naming and branding)!!!

If you have questions, feel free to contact us at:
info.melontechnologies@gmail.com Call - 08033689593 Whatsapp - 08054033161

God bless your hustles.

Bonus: Examples of Target market identification

Before we proceed to Step 2, lets take a look at typical examples of how some people/companies identified their target market.

Fairphone:
Some years back, a man called Bas Van Abel of Netherlands, noticed the increasing number of human rights activists, people calling for ethical fairness and decided to make smartphones to satisfy them.
He asked people who wants to buy ethically fair phone to pay, even before the phone was produced. People paid and he went to China, searched and found a company(Shenzhen G.....), interested in making ethically fair phone. A phone with very minimal human rights abuse, in the production from start to finish. He targeted about 10,000 people but finally ended up selling 25,000 smartphones. He became successful. That was how Fairphone was born. Now Fairphone 2 is in the works.

So for Fairphone their target market was ETHICALLY FAIR PEOPLE.

Xiaomi:
A Chinese man called Lei Jun, while working as CEO of Kingsoft noticed that, then big phone companies like Nokia, Motorola etc doesn't take heed to customers preferences, demands and needs while designing and making phones. He decided that if he has to make phones, he would make phones according to customers/peoples preference.
From modding Android based ROMs, which are feature packed and people eccentric, he graduated to making high quality affordable smartphones and accessories according to customers demand and he/his company Xiaomi, became very successful, rich and popular amid a highly competitive Chinese smartphone market.

So for Xiaomi their target market is being FULLY CUSTOMER ORIENTED.

Letv:
A Chinese man called Jia Yueting of Leshi Internet Information Technology (Letv), noticed that major smartphone makers like Apple, in the keenly competitive Chinese domestic market, under serves customers with a pinch of arrogance.
They make mid range phones and sells them as highly priced high end devices, way out of the reach of many people who needs them. And they doesn't care a hoot how people feel.
He decided to fill that gap and reverse the trend, to make high end smartphones and sell them as mid range ones, then makes mid range phones and sell them as entry level phones, way below his Bill of Materials(BOM). And Letv became an instant hit, over night, in a highly competitive market.

For Letv, their target market is "Value thirsty majority who are insulted by the seemingly arrogance of Apple and co"

Transsion:
The company that owns Tecno, Infinix, Itel, Carlcare and Iflux. Around 2010/2011, this company noticed that African smartphone market is under served and holds high potential, with high demands for cheap affordable smartphones. But big companies kept ignoring this market because of their shortsightedness and erroneous presumptions. Transsion came in with full force to serve African market and became an instant hit. This move pushed them to become one of the first ten biggest smartphones makers/shippers in China.

So for Transsion their target market is African market, "an under served market".

From here you can have an idea of how to identify your target market. Your target market goes a long way to decide how your phones will be made, how they will look like and what they must contain.

Bottom line: identifying your target market can be in two ways;
(1) looking at your seemingly competitive over saturated domestic market to identify a large group of people with a particular interests yet unserved.
(2) looking for an area that is scantily served or under served, and serve them with passion.

We at Melon Technologies have 3 target markets.

Have a great juicy and sweet day!

Step 2 - Invent your brand(naming, logo and branding):- This step is very crucial for your success and this is where your marketing begins proper.

If you are a start up like me, it means people has not formed a subconscious tag, image, believes about your brand, in their heads. They don't associate it with anything yet. So nudge them to form a very positive, motivational captivating tag and associate it with encouragement and benefits.

Because the essence of a name is to capture people's attention and holds it. Another important need for a brand is to encapsulate the very uniqueness, aims, missions and objectives of the company and present it to the target customers in one move.

Hence, you need to be very careful in coining your name, designing your logo, selecting your colours and branding.

The most important question you must ask yourself is "WHAT WILL COME TO PEOPLE'S MIND ONCE THEY COME ACROSS THE NAME AND LOGO OF MY COMPANY?
Is it something very positive, encouraging, motivational and affirmative? What image will they subconsciously form in their mind concerning the company, products and brand? Is the name catchy and addictive?

The success of Infinix over Tecno as brands, is more or less as a result of this. Immediately you call Tecno, people will remember low quality feature phones and call it "chinco phone". But the moment you call Infinix, people will immediately associate it with infinity - limitless, then they will think the name is "swag" and trendy. Then they desire to associate with it. Human beings are subconscious beings, that tends to act impulsely.
Hence give your company and smartphone's brand a catchy, trendy, swag name, which people associates to positivity and benefits.

Its very good if the name is not more than Six letters long, if it must be up to seven letters long, let it not be more than two syllable or at most three. Let the name not contain "r", people tends to be a bit afraid of "Rs", If it must contain "R", let it be silent or swallowed.

1) Apple (4) LG (7)Lenovo (10) Tecno (13) Gionee
2) Samsung (5) Nexus (8.)ZTE (11) Infinix (14) HTC
3) Huawei (6) Xiaomi (9) Alcatel (12) Nokia (15) Solo
Over 95% of smartphones in Nigerian market today carries the name above. Do you think its a mistake that these names doesn't contain 'r'? Do you think its also a mistake that none of the name above is more than seven letters long?

I believe human psychology were involved in coining these names above. Human beings these days tends to be in a hurry, so pronouncing long difficult words is slightly a turn off.

Infact at Melon Technologies, we prefer the name not to be more than FIVE letters and the name of a fruit or a vegetable. Since everyone loves fruits and vegetables and associates them to sweetness and benefits.

The success secret of Apple Computers and Xiaomi Inc lies a bit on their names and logo. Since everyone loves Apple and Rice. Xiaomi means RICE or millet.

Furthermore, if possible let the name be an English name, to avoid casting societal limitation to your brand. Also let the name have meaning, very positive meaning, this will help your target customers form a very positive image subconsciously about your brand as fast as possible.

But that does not mean that if your brand name is WHACK, out of place and meaningless, you won't sell and be successful. No! Success comes from GOD. Its just that I believe in doing things very well.

Then invent and design your logo to explain and illustrate the name and focus of your company.

Get the name and logo properly registered to protect your idea and brand.

WORDS OF CAUTION: BE ORIGINAL! BE YOURSELF! BE CREATIVE! BE INNOVATIVE! PRAY, THINK AND LET YOUR IMAGINATION ROAM WIDE.

Examples of my kind of brand names:-
1) Blossom (2) Lotus (3) Mango

Finally, decide from your heart to match your very positivities with a very positive business practice. This will drive your dream and pursuit far. Its counter productive to name a business "favour", only to offer low quality substandard fake devices.

Good luck!

Watch out for Step 3 - Design your devices.

Step 3 :- Design your Device(s)
We are talking about OEM here! How come we are designing our own device(s) ourselves? Great question!

To search for great OEM technical partner that can deliver, you need to have an idea of what you want.

The sole essence of this step is to help you develop an image of the smartphone you want in your mind, if possible make a sketch or a paper cut of it. So that while searching for OEM partner and looking over various devices and designs, you will know your preferred design and partner immediately you see them, without unnecessary confusion.

This place helps you to know more about smartphones, since you really need to know much to pick a good OEM partner.

Here, you need to also decide the preferred design by your target customers. You can do this by observing the shapes people go for, much. Personally, for me I have been an insider in smartphone business, so I know designs people love so much.

Its a pity that some smartphone vendors in Nigerian market has formed the habit of dumping anyhow designs on their customers. Fortunately, Nigerians doesn't have much options than to buy, but it limits volumes of sales if you can't listen to your customers.

Let me digress a bit. Recently, I took someone to the stand of a very popular Smartphone vendor in Nigerian market here. The guy, a green horn when it comes to smart devices, didn't pick any phone. When I asked him why, he replied "I don't like their designs". In my mind, I was like "waaoo! I thought am the only person that noticed this". So you must take note of designs majority of your customers desire.

Moreover, you must know about smartphones' features like bezels, screen to size ratio, form factor and effect they have on customers and phones. You must know about processors too, you must be familiar with screens, screen sizes, resolutions, pixels, pixels per inch(ppi), etc.

You must know about cameras, its aperture sizes, its pixels and their effects. You must know about RAMs, ROMs, internal memory, external memory, USB On the go (OTG), various audio enhancers and chips etc. You must know about colours and their effects on buyers.

Finally, you must know the FIVE ingredients that makes a great device.

Infact, you must know as much as possible. Don't expect me to teach you or else you wants to pay.

Then put all these together to form an idea of the kind of phone you wants, for its level, for your target market.

Below is the rendering of our first smartphone but financial challenges truncated it's production.

Good luck!


Next: - Step 4 - Estimate your cost.

interested,how do i get more details?

samoney:
interested,how do i get more details?

Thanks

Two ways;

1) Follow this thread. Sorry, am a hustler and a busy person. So I may not be posting here all the time.


2) Contact us at Melon Technologies with contacts above.

Note: What am posting here is just overview. Deep particularized information will cost you.

God bless you.

Hmmm! Its been long I posted last. Issues. How time flies.
God bless you all.

Please where are the Nigerian business moguls, the dons, the politicians etc.

Please come lets join hands and build Africa's biggest Next Generation Smart Consumer Electronics BRAND.

Thank you.