OPPO has a plan to become South Africa's biggest smartphone brand

[Hanno Labuschagne]

OPPO has a plan to become South Africa's biggest smartphone brand

OPPO is working hard to establish a prominent, permanent presence in the South African smartphone market.

This is according to Head of Go-to-market and Operations at OPPO South Africa Liam Faurie, who recently spoke to MyBroadband following the launch of the company’s Reno5 5G smartphone in the country.

Faurie’s previous roles included a term of seven years at Samsung South Africa, where he served as Product Manager for Premium Smartphones and Senior Product Manager. More recently, he headed Product and Marketing at Hisense South Africa.

 

[Milano]

OPPO has a plan to become South Africa's biggest smartphone brand

OPPO is working hard to establish a prominent, permanent presence in the South African smartphone market.

This is according to Head of Go-to-market and Operations at OPPO South Africa Liam Faurie, who recently spoke to MyBroadband following the launch of the company’s Reno5 5G smartphone in the country.

Faurie’s previous roles included a term of seven years at Samsung South Africa, where he served as Product Manager for Premium Smartphones and Senior Product Manager. More recently, he headed Product and Marketing at Hisense South Africa.

Yeah they would need to start with rethinking their stupidly high prices.

 

[RedViking]

Who is the competition? Thabs mobile shop?

 

[Easter Bunny]

Yeah they would need to start with rethinking their stupidly high prices.

and also availability. as someone who has stockholm syndrome, i can only pick between samsung, apple and huawei on spermcount telkom

 

[genetic]

Yeah they would need to start with rethinking their stupidly high prices.

This. Almost 3x as much as its sold for overseas.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

This. Almost 3x as much as its sold for overseas.

Maybe there is a Gupta in the deal

 

[ISP cash cow]

have some more

 

[The_Librarian]

This is an OTTO rubbish bin




This is an OPPO mobile phone.



Will the two meet and have an orgasmic fiery meeting?

 

[Longboi]

 

[SirFooK'nG]

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Has GMS, so could probably overtake Hauwei

 

[Wysjoumuis]

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That phone's camera is racist

 

[Longboi]

That phone's camera is racist

Most camera's are lacist.

 

[ToxicBunny]

If they bring their pricing more inline with what I can import their products for, then they have a shot.. If not then they're just pissing against the wind really.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

No one cares about Oppo, people do care about Oneplus though.
Seeing as how its the same company, maybe they should focus more on Oneplus in SA.

 

[Raphael123]

If you aint meeting the xiaomi/Redmi pricepoint then its a matter of time before you fold up your distro. Oneplus is welcome though.

 

[Sapphiron]

Yep, if you can't compete with Xiaomi on price, informed customers are not interested.

Unless you are just going to spend marketing money to catch the uninformed ones, have them learn their lesson and then crash and burn your local operation in about 2 years

 

[Randux]

Not at those prices. Xiaomi remains without competition locally.

 

[WaxLyrical]

That equates to R7.5k which is what these things should cost here.

Wtf is their target market when you'd rather go with Apple or Samsung.

 

[AdrianH]

I have a Oppo A53 here in UK that's used for my SA sim. Cost me £130 so about R2700 or so. It's actually a decent phone, even has 90Hz screen, NFC, and a good old earphone jack unlike the top of the range phones.