[2] Wiko was established in February 2011 by French businessman Laurent Dahan.

[2] Its head office, design and marketing teams are based in Marseille, France.

[2] Wiko shipped 2.6 million devices overall in 2013, mostly dual-SIM Android smartphones.

[citation needed] In 2018 Wiko was present in more than 30 countries in: Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa and had around 30 million users, twice the number of two years earlier.

[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] 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.