Mobile Apps

Safepay is a payment gateway for Pakistani businesses: an API and a checkout that let an online seller take card payments without assembling the plumbing themselves.

Sony makes Xperia phones, PlayStation consoles, cameras and audio. Its phones are aimed at people who want manual camera control and a headphone socket.

TCL is one of the largest television makers in the world, and makes phones under both its own name and Alcatel.

Transsion makes phones for the Global South under TECNO, itel and Infinix. Barely known in Europe or North America, and the largest phone seller in Africa.

vivo makes phones led by the X series, whose cameras are developed with Zeiss, plus the performance-focused iQOO sub-brand and a large value range.

Wayflyer advances funding to ecommerce businesses against their future sales, for the stock and advertising that has to be paid for before the revenue arrives.

Xiaomi builds phones, a large connected-home range and, since 2024, electric cars. It reached scale by selling hardware at thin margins and making its money on everything around it.

ZTE builds telecommunications network equipment and sells phones, routers and mobile broadband devices alongside it.