SICO exports locally-made smartphone to UAE

SICO Technology exported the first batch of its Android-powered Nile X Egyptian-made smartphones to the UAE, Chairman Mohamed Salem tells Al Mal. The company, which received approvals from the UAE’s telecoms regulator on the first shipment of 1,000 devices last month, plans to “continue expanding abroad and exporting to Arab and African countries,” Salem adds. Nile X, was introduced during Cairo ICT last year and went on sale in Egypt back in February with six models ranging in price from EGP 999-4,200.