Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 03-10-2017

South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung has been voted SA’s best-loved electronic brand and best cell phone brand at the Sunday Times Top Brands awards.

The results of 19th annual Sunday Times Top Brands Awards which is conducted by market research agency Kantar TNS, were announced in Johannesburg last week.

Samsung beat out fellow South Korean multinational company LG, which came in second, to claim the top spot in the electronics section.

Japanese consumer and electronics conglomerate Sony was placed third.

The top three were followed, in terms of ranking, by Apple, Hisense, Telefunken, Panasonic, Sansui, JVC and HP.

In the best cell phone section, while Samsung again come out top being the favourite device for consumers beating Nokia into second, and Apple’s iPhone into third, but the iPhone maintained the lead in the category, followed by Samsung and then Huawei.

When it came to telecommunications providers, Telkom landlines/fixed lines came in first, followed by MTN in second place and Vodacom in third.

Fin24/Sunday Times

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