{"id":550462,"date":"2006-10-11T00:43:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T00:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550462-leaf-wireless-to-develop-african-smart-device-market.html"},"modified":"2006-10-11T00:43:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T00:43:58","slug":"leaf-wireless-to-develop-african-smart-device-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550462-leaf-wireless-to-develop-african-smart-device-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Leaf Wireless to develop African &#8216;smart device&#8217; market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThis is evidenced by Leaf being the first SA company to be awarded the Microsoft Mobile Competency Award in August 2005 and being the winner of the Microsoft Windows Mobile challenge. We are eagerly looking forward to working with HTC,\u201d says Brandon Leigh, CEO of Leaf Wireless and SA\u2019s Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWith the HTC partnership, Leaf will be bringing the widest range of mobile products to both personal and business users,\u201d adds Leigh. \u201cPeople around the world are already familiar with the Windows Mobile platform.\u201d \u201cThe beauty of the platform is that everything that is on a user\u2019s computer is now accessible on these phones \u2013 and more &#8211; such as built-in HSPDA for immediate wireless access as well the built-in GPS.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Florian Seiche, vice-president of HTC Europe, concludes: \u201cWe look forward to working in partnership with Leaf to expand HTC\u2019s presence into the African market.\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=55517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that Windows Mobile is the operating system of the future. HTC is a provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile devices, and Leaf has strong credentials in the same field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}