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Telkom Kenya launches cheapest smartphone in Kenyan market

Telkom Kenya has launched its Kaduda Smart, Kenya’s cheapest smartphone. PHOTO | COLLINS NABISWA | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  COLLINS NABISWA

What you need to know:

  • In 2015, Orange Kenya (now Telkom Kenya) introduced Klif, a smartphone retailing at Sh4,000 in Kenyan market.
  • The Kaduda Smart phone joins the bludgeoning Kenyan smartphone market with Telkom Kenya boasting that the first Kaduda (dubbed Kaduda 2) sold over a million units and they needed to ride on their popularity with a better and improved version.

Telkom Kenya has launched Kaduda Smart, Kenya’s cheapest smartphone, barely a year after their similar device, Klif, was withdrawn after Mozilla abruptly discontinued Firefox Operating System (OS) on the handset.

In 2015, Orange Kenya (now Telkom Kenya) introduced Klif, a smartphone retailing at Sh4,000 in Kenyan market.

The phone ran on Mozilla’s Firefox OS but it was abruptly discontinued thereby dealing a fatal blow to the phone that was barely six months old on the market.

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Telkom Kenya had to act fast and look for an equally cheap replacement for the dying brand.

Orange partnered with Google in other African markets to roll out Rise 31, another cheap brand.

However, the now independent Telkom Kenya has launched Kaduda Smart to take over from Klif.

The Kaduda Smart phone joins the bludgeoning Kenyan smartphone market with Telkom Kenya boasting that the first Kaduda (dubbed Kaduda 2) sold over a million units and they needed to ride on their popularity with a better and improved version. Hence, Kaduda Smart.

Kaduda Smart is a low-cost Android powered smartphone manufactured by Chinese company ZTE. It comes with an adaptor, a USB cable, a pair of earphones, a warranty card and an instruction manual alongside the device.

The Kaduda Smart is easy to setup and the out of the box experience is great. The writer had one month user experience of the phone.

The browser is fast and responsive giving the user a hassle-free experience. Other preinstalled apps include Clean Master Lite, music player, gallery, calculator, file manager, FM radio, video and email and Google applications and a Google Camera.

However when more apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook and other social media apps are added, it becomes slower due to its limiting memory.

Telkom Kenya has cleverly locked Kaduda Smart users on its network by programming it to be activated by its SIM. Since it’s a dual SIM phone, the other slot can be used by any other network. A win for everyone!
The Kaduda Smart comes in black and white colours.

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