South Africa Online – 43.7 million unique browsers Bottom line is there is growth and the mobile browser is the way that most of our population in SA access the Internet. To make such an experience more pleasant (at least possible Android) is to educate users how to connect and display their mobile phone screen onto a bigger screen like a TV, and possibly add a mouse via USB. It may make the experience more palatable especially if small family groups are using one phone. Most of the "smartphones" used in the poorer communities are small screen sizes too. The USB mouse part is quite easy as a mouse is cheap and a OTG cable to connect it is also not too expensive. The challenge comes with the TV part as the output to a TV is usually HDMI and only the newer TVs have HDMI (just needs a micro-HDMI-to-HDMI cable). Most older TVs are still RCA plugs. You do get $8 converters for HDMI to RCA composite AV (like at http://ift.tt/2hETBvH) but try sourcing that locally in a poor community. So it looks like a niche is opening up locally possibly for a small cheapish device that could plug into the micro-USB port of an Android phone, and allow that device to connect to a cheap TV along with a cheap USB keyboard and mouse. See the SA stats at http://ift.tt/2hBQRha
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