Onyx Connect, a privately backed company that's raised R150 million, will begin production in the first quarter, according to Andre van der Merwe, its sales director. The company is licensed to load Google software such as Android and Chrome on to devices sold under its own brand, or products it makes for others.
"We are talking to companies to manufacture handsets, laptops and possibly Android TV boxes," Van der Merwe said.
Talks include Google and Vodacom Group, he said.
Vodacom would "welcome the opportunity" to offer high-quality devices made in South Africa, Jorge Mendes, a Vodacom consumer sales and distribution executive, said, declining to com- ment on Onyx specifically. – Bloomberg
