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Wiko ( ) is a French company, and a fully owned
subsidiary A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidia ...
of Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Tinno Mobile.


History

Wiko was established in February 2011, by French businessman Laurent Dahan. Its head office, design and marketing teams are based in
Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...
, France. Wiko shipped 2.6 million devices overall in 2013, mostly dual-SIM 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 Samsung Group (; stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean Multinational corporation, multinational manufacturing Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in the Samsung Town office complex in Seoul. The group consists of numerous a ...
. In 2014 Wiko entered the British market. In 2018 Wiko was present in more than 30 countries in
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,
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, the
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, and
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, 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 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

* BQ (company)


References

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