Smartphone adoption will further the concept of a multi-faceted mobile device, said Eagle. However, he noted that the mobile application craze will most likely pass over Africa.

"You need to have a lot of money to partner with a mobile provider," he said, adding that carriers aren't interested in working with developers.

Greater business and user opportunities lie in mobile cloud computing, he said.

"You'll see growth in the mobile Web, applications that run on a browser," as African cloud computing services "are going to explode."