Nile’s Eleven — SICO phone sales delayed due to battery theft

In a story that could only come out of an Egyptian parody of Ocean’s Eleven, SICO Technology is delaying the first batch of their locally produced phones for three weeks after suffering a theft of around 15,000 batteries during a delivery, company President Mohamed Salem told Al Mal. The theft was discovered at the battery warehouse in Assiut after the shipment arrived from China. A new shipment is on track for 10 January to keep with SICO’s plan to sell 20,000 phones as an initial phase. SICO’s flagship device the Nile X was supposed to hit shelves on 15 December.