Smartphone expo kicks off in Dhaka Thursday

Top mobile phone brands will showcase their fourth generation products and services at the eighth edition of the Smartphone and Tab Expo in Dhaka beginning on Thursday.

Open 10:00am-8:00pm with admission costing Tk 20, the three-day event will be organised at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre by event management company Expo Maker.

The smartphone makers target selling 10,000 gadgets at the event, the organisers said at a press conference at the Sonargaon hotel in the capital yesterday.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak is scheduled to inaugurate the fair. Techshohor.com is the title sponsor, Samsung and Huawei platinum sponsors and Symphony and WE Mobile gold sponsors.

Global and local brands including Oppo, Sony Rangs, Xiaomi, Adata, Nokia, Asus Zenfone, Lava, Micromax, Lenovo, Winmax Mobile, DCL Mobile, Dtel, Gadget & Gadget and Ajkerdeal.com are scheduled to participate.

Participating companies will offer price reduction and gifts, said Muhammad Khan, strategic planner of Expo Maker. Huawei will showcase their total range of 4G enabled handsets at the expo, said Suman Saha, manager for public relations at Huawei Technologies Bangladesh.

Mayeedur Rahman, head of mobile at Samsung Electronics Bangladesh; Md Asaduzzaman, head of retail development of Symphony, and Muntasir Ahmed, deputy general manager at WE Mobile, also spoke at the press briefing.