Wiko ( ) is a French company, fully owned subsidiary of Chinese mobile phone manufacturer
Tinno Mobile Tinno Mobile is a Chinese ODM company focused on making phones for other brands. The company have also created their own mobile phone brands like , and Wiko Mobile. The company was established in 2005 and is headquartered at Shenzhen, Guangdong, ...
.
History
Wiko was established in February 2011 by French businessman Laurent Dahan.
Its head office, design and marketing teams are based in
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
, France.
Wiko shipped 2.6 million devices overall in 2013, mostly
dual-SIM
Some mobile phones support use of two SIM cards, described as dual SIM operation. When a second SIM card is installed, the phone either allows users to switch between two separate mobile network services manually, has hardware support for keeping ...
Android smartphones.
That year, it sold 1.7 million smartphones in France, i.e. 7 % of the French market
and it was the country's second largest selling smartphone firm after
Samsung
The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...
.
In 2014 Wiko entered the
British market.
In 2018 Wiko was present in more than 30 countries in: Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa and had around 30 million users, twice the number of two years earlier.
Privacy data collection
In November 2017, it is revealed that pre-installed application within phones from Wiko (a
Tinno Mobile Tinno Mobile is a Chinese ODM company focused on making phones for other brands. The company have also created their own mobile phone brands like , and Wiko Mobile. The company was established in 2005 and is headquartered at Shenzhen, Guangdong, ...
subsidiary) would transmit technical data monthly to Tinno without customer consent. The company confirmed the existence of such information collection system and said updated version of those applications will no longer collect geographical information of devices.
Remote shut down
A vulnerability was identified that allows anyone to remotely shut down a phone using a "=" text message, the flaw could be in hardware, rather than software.
See also
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BQ (company)
BQ (former name: Mundo Reader) was a Spanish company brand of user electronics devices, such as smartphones, tablets, e-readers and 3D printers among other products.
Among BQ's most notable products are the first AndroidOne mobile phone in Eur ...
References
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French companies established in 2011
Mobile phone manufacturers
Electronics companies of France
Telecommunication equipment companies of China
Companies based in Marseille
French brands
French subsidiaries of foreign companies
2017 mergers and acquisitions
