Wiko
Wiko (/ˈwɪkoʊ/ WIK-oh) is a French subsidiary set up by its Chinese parent company Tinno Mobile to sell their China-manufactured smartphones.[1]
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Founded | 2011 ![]() |
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Headquarters | Marseille, France |
Area served | France Switzerland United Kingdom Belgium Greece Spain Portugal Malaysia Indonesia Thailand Vietnam |
Key people | Laurent Dahan |
Parent | Tinno Mobile |
Website | https://fr.wikomobile.com/ |
History
Wiko was established in February 2011 by French businessman Laurent Dahan.[1] Its head office, design and marketing teams are based in Marseille.[1]
Wiko shipped 2.6 million devices overall in 2013, mostly dual-SIM Android smartphones.[1] That year, it sold 1.7 million smartphones in France,[2] i.e. seven percent of the French market,[1][3] and it was the country's second largest selling smartphone firm after Samsung.[4]
In 2014, Wiko entered the British market.
Gallery
- Wiko Rainbow 4G
- Wiko View 2 Go Anthracite, one of the few Wikos with a dual-lens camera.
- Wiko Harry 2, one of Wiko's budget phones.
gollark: Alternatively, I can just make the adding-to-nickname-mapping bit happen at exactly the same time as the checking-if-nickname-exists bit but that would be really annoying.
gollark: Another would be very aggressive locking or something.
gollark: One possible way to fix this would be to have a central "broker" task which receives all state-updating commands ever and maintains stateful state, but this would be annoying too unless I can give everything else read access to it, and actually getting responses back would probably be irritating.
gollark: i.e. two people try and register with the same nick at exactly the same time, and then it has two people with the same nick because each time it checks it hasn't been written yet, and then everything breaks horribly.
gollark: But then I realized "OH APIOFORMS, that is probably vulnerable to weird race conditions".
See also
References
- Daniel Thomas, Telecoms Correspondent (June 16, 2014). "Smartphone maker Wiko challenges big players". Financial Times. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
- Vive La Tech (August 7, 2014). "Wiko: Meet the Chinese smartphone maker with a French twist that's set to conquer Europe". ZDNet. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
- "Mobile phones: The rise of the cheap smartphone". The Economist. April 5, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
- "Wiko gears up to challenge big players". Gulfnews.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
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