oz4real83:
Nokia 3.1. it was a gift, that phone na thrash,no matter how much you convince me about Nokia Android phones,that particular Nokia phone has given me Nokia-android-phobia

I dey use Nokia android since 2020 until now.No issue whatsoever.

My first ever android, Tecno P3, slow as snail with its 512mb RAM and a battery that discharges at rest.

saintopus:
Since GSM came to Nigeria I will tell my journey and the number of fake phones I have used.

In 2004 while in NYSC Camp in Sagamu we had MTN had slashed the prices of SIM Cards and that starts the fake phones journey.

My PPA was in Abeokuta North
My guys in the lodge gave me their Alawey to get them MTN SIM Card in Abeokuta. Of course I did and I used part of my money and head to Lagos for the first time without my guys knowing. Went to Computer Village in Ikeja for the first time in my life. Incidentally became the first time I was scammed in buying a fake TRIUM Phone.

Indomie generations please don't bother you won't know the phone. So I got the phone from a lady who sells from a showcase. She directed me where to get a bus back to Abeokuta because it was getting late. Got to the lodge finally found out the phone hardly charged to 5% the screen will go blind.

Finally gave the phone to my girlfriend then knowing that my N7k used in getting the phone was gone my guys laughed the hell out of me.

Saved another money got MY X1, I used to for a long time. It was stolen then later got one Bird phone with a blue screen it didn't last for a year was stolen. A good friend of mine gifted me a NOKIA 2310.

Few months ago I brought itel A33 for my wife a decision I knew it will end with a disaster. True to it, the charging pot. The hanging, the camera they are all a massive disaster.

By all means I think Transsion phones have poor quality.

Never again with them.

I don't think you should generalize Transsion products. They understand the Nigerian/African market and are trying to make phones that every class of earners can afford. Can you get any IPhone or Samsung within the range of 20 to 30K? Impossible. But some Transsion products are within that range. Ofcourse you should expect a low quality/performance from such a device.

Unfortunately most guys here that criticize Transsion have never used their flagships before. They draw their conclusion from the low budget or midrange ones they have used. Even the Xiaomi they're hyping is also trash and full of bugs especially their low budget and mid range devices just like Transsion.

The IPhone and Samsung you rate so high don't produce low budget phones so you should expect top quality performance from their products. Although Samsung recently started producing some low budget and mid rangers for low income earners to afford. But it hangs and misbehaves alot which is expected just like the low budget Transsions you guys criticize everyday.

Brand new Iphone 6 without data subscription. Very boring.

Vix805:
mine was a refurbished, rebranded cool pad turned tecno camon.yes, you know the one.

Things were terrible for us and I needed a phone that could WhatsApp cause I was returning back to school.

When I went to buy it,i saw smaller vivo phones but then this big screen thing entered my eye and after checking the settings I saw 4gb ram ,64gb ROM. Wowza!! and it was cheap too just 10k. In my mumu mind i thought I had made a steal ,ah! I don suffer.

On getting home with my new device I did the needful and charged it , if you see slow charging ,chei! and then the 2500 mah removable battery dies like reverse flash. zoom!
playstore wasn't working.
I had to collect the little apps I could from my younger sister. and some didn't even install.

4gb ,64gb oshi.became 1gb 11gb .

Then the charging ic spoilt after 2 weeks.i had to buy desktop which ended with the battery being spoilt.
imagine charging something With desktop for 12hrs only to get 5 percent..

Before the charging ic spoilt ,the battery kept depleting itself,driving me nuts.

In the end,after the battery spoilt i was reduced to using Nokia battery with paper wedged in the back and eventually I went to church one morning,returned to see that there phone had given up on me. system crash.

Hahaha , I had such experience in 2014, imagine a refurbished fairly use Tecno that cannot browse the internet , if you play small game, the phone will hit up like electric cooker.
I bought the phone at Emeka Ofor plaza main market, I returned it with the receipt but the seller avoided me for 3days.
I caught up with him the upper week , he was talking shit about no refund after payment, that he can give me another device if I pay an extra 10k , the fucker even asked me to leave his shop, yes he did but he got a shocker , I gave him an unexpected nose shattering punch and we fought.
Security got involved i got my money back.
Last last I went home with a sound Gionee M something.

nijaomegacode:

Freedom of speech is between you and your government; don't talk to me anyhow.

damn

I'm surprised that I'm not hearing tales of oukitel,umidigi, blackview, doogee,cubot ,QUBO ,elephone, uleohone , ...... and their siblings.

The worst phone I have used is itel 1407, a very useless phone, it gave me serious headache, and the battery no dey last more than 20 minutes e Don die.

Vix805:
mine was a refurbished, rebranded cool pad turned tecno camon.yes, you know the one.

Things were terrible for us and I needed a phone that could WhatsApp cause I was returning back to school.

When I went to buy it,i saw smaller vivo phones but then this big screen thing entered my eye and after checking the settings I saw 4gb ram ,64gb ROM. Wowza!! and it was cheap too just 10k. In my mumu mind i thought I had made a steal ,ah! I don suffer.

On getting home with my new device I did the needful and charged it , if you see slow charging ,chei! and then the 2500 mah removable battery dies like reverse flash. zoom!
playstore wasn't working.
I had to collect the little apps I could from my younger sister. and some didn't even install.

4gb ,64gb oshi.became 1gb 11gb .

Then the charging ic spoilt after 2 weeks.i had to buy desktop which ended with the battery being spoilt.
imagine charging something With desktop for 12hrs only to get 5 percent..

Before the charging ic spoilt ,the battery kept depleting itself,driving me nuts.

In the end,after the battery spoilt i was reduced to using Nokia battery with paper wedged in the back and eventually I went to church one morning,returned to see that there phone had given up on me. system crash.

Awoof don run ur belle finally
No cool device comes cheap..learn that today.

Vix805:
I'm surprised that I'm not hearing tales of oukitel,umidigi, blackview, doogee,cubot ,QUBO ,elephone, uleohone , ...... and their siblings.

I have used Umidigi before, I didn't have a bad experience. The only issue I had (have) is the availability of part.

Blackberry torch 3,
Shit was a nightmare,

Mine as Nokia 3310.

I don't have to say a thing anymore.

Mine was Nokia 3310.

I don't have to say a thing anymore.

Itel 1516; Chai! That phone was so damn slow in charging eh. Hangs like hell; once I put on my data, I'd have to wait out for about 3-6 minutes before I can start using my device, else, I risk it going off. If a call comes in, I'd have to count from 1 to 7 (like 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi....) before I pick else, it'd definitely go off. I had only whatsapp, Xender, Dead Trigger 2 and Beach buggy racing apps to help with both ROM and RAM management. If I want to use Aliexpress app, I'd have to uninstall the Xender app to create space and vice versa.

The most recent is called ZPad. A brand new device my colleague gifted me just this past month. The phone goes off at will- Once you put on Hotspot/WiFi, you can easily boil a cup of water for tea with it. I just use it to watch movies and read PDF books, shikena.... of course plugged in with my power bank to keep it on when in use. I can tell you my tablet phone is a mini desktop phone because it can't function without being plugged to a power source.

Blackberry tour that phone show me shege. Had 6 extra batteries but each last just 5-10 minutes of usage

Myzubby:
ok there was one phone that I bought , and I posted it on nairaland. Omo nairalanders dey smart fa. They told me that I should update them After 3months of usage that the phone will show me shege . I thought it was a joke sha .

But truly after few months the new phone I bought started misbehaving you go dey o. Call phone go off play FB videos small time e go trip off . � . Ngwanu snap camera na wahala and na new phone o sealed and packaged 4gb ram was actually 900+mb 64gb rom na 16gb . I later sold the phone half the price . . Since then before I buy any phone I will research and read users reviews . . .

Next time if you want to buy any phone post the phone first on nairaland and see reviews

You can't go wrong with Nairaland and especially YouTube reviews.
I failed to do that in 2016 and I ended up buying THL T9 Pro or something from Jumia at a price of 30k. A very sleek phone but had issues of heating up and poor battery. I spent almost 17k on battery alone apart from the money given to phone technicians at different times. I even ordered for two batteries from aliexpress at a price of 10k in 2017! Before the batteries could arrive, phone technician had spoiled the phone.
I later discovered that that same phone was rated worst android phone of the year 2016 by a YouTuber

Revolution2022:
I dey use Nokia android since 2020 until now.No issue whatsoever.

Nokia 2. very strong and very fraustrating phone. poor memory capacity

Fireandblood:
Nokia 2. very strong and very fraustrating phone. poor memory capacity

yes,you are right about the poor memory capacity.

wiseone28:
I still remember how first set of infinix phone used to be hot like pressing iron before the start making better phone from the hot note up.

I can relate .

I used their Hot 1. Omo, the phone lived up to its name.

This thread is hilarious

Myzubby:
ok there was one phone that I bought , and I posted it on nairaland. Omo nairalanders dey smart fa. They told me that I should update them After 3months of usage that the phone will show me shege . I thought it was a joke sha .

But truly after few months the new phone I bought started misbehaving you go dey o. Call phone go off play FB videos small time e go trip off . � . Ngwanu snap camera na wahala and na new phone o sealed and packaged 4gb ram was actually 900+mb 64gb rom na 16gb . I later sold the phone half the price . . Since then before I buy any phone I will research and read users reviews . . .



Next time if you want to buy any phone post the phone first on nairaland and see reviews

Vnus s50.

eleko1:
TECNO.
Useless and valuless phone..

Come see how dey bargin(Even when u ask them to pay,they won’t) last,last,Nah one Police be lucky winner .I just disappeared from that hood b4 he return am and ask for his money

I still dey find you o..

Playthepianos:


Vnus s50.

essa 3

saintopus:
Since GSM came to Nigeria I will tell my journey and the number of fake phones I have used.
By all means I think Transsion phones have poor quality.

Never again with them.

Jazzman01:


I don't think you should generalize Transsion products. The IPhone and Samsung you rate so high don't produce low budget phones so you should expect top quality performance from their products. Although Samsung recently started producing some low budget and mid rangers for low income earners to afford. But it hangs and misbehaves alot which is expected just like the low budget Transsions you guys criticize everyday.

I used Tecno N3, my wife used Tecno WX3 Pro and I'm currently using Tecno Pova 5G. There was no regret with all the three phones.

KingAzubuike:
One phone like that the name na Gowin. Name wey be like Godwin. . After just 3 days of purchase, I was already looking for a buyer. I couldn't get a decent price for it. Last last, 3 weeks later I smashed it on the ground due to frustration

Another one like that wey I use the name na malata. Phones dey this life sha.

why your phone always have strange name baba

Besty27:
why your phone always have strange name baba

Go ask your mama.