lols, u just dey spoil mtn market here ....

emeraldlife:
if water touch am, e don go be that; frozen screen, hardware malufunction and low light legibility.

nevertheless, its still a good low budget phone for starters.

please room for a couple of days now I have not been able to access my external memory card through my laptop, I wanted to transfer some document from my phone memory card to my laptop through usb cord please help me out, it just started day before yesterday, I have been transfering before but now laptop can't detect my ext but can only read my phone memory

emeraldlife:
if water touch am, e don go be that; frozen screen, hardware malufunction and low light legibility.

nevertheless, its still a good low budget phone for starters.

Tnx

dazekid:

simply do not buy it...don't be so cheap..add a few thousands more and get a much better/more enjoyable android device or even buy one that's used to make it more affordable...

tnx

tecno f5 and nokia x which one will i go for

can anybody teach me he to back up my android ROM
msg me on whats app with 07038722176

pls evryone he'll me out........I gat a new android and need a cheap data plan.....am using an etisalat network....... pls help me out

Please I need help concerning this mysterious app named android OS, its expending my data seriously, and in fact when I switch off my data it comes on automatically after some time, I don't know what's behind this. Will appreciate your help and suggestions

Pls, I' ve got a samsung android fone with airtel android bundle on it. Can I share this data with my PC? How do I go about it?

lawrenceunaa: can anybody teach me he to back up my android ROM
msg me on whats app with 07038722176

What's the name of your device sir...?

nani667:

What's the name of your device sir...?

tecno s9

lawrenceunaa: tecno s9

There's a thread for your device on Nairaland, go there and see how you can root and install custom recovery for your device....

Pls, which is advisable between Samsung galaxy trend lite and Samsung galaxy ace3? I wanna get one.

There’s something wrong in Android land.

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The idea behind Android was simple. Google would make its own software version of Blackberry, encourage everyone to sign up to the free software.

This would suck mobile eyeballs into the Googleverse, like a super-massive black-hole pulling in every star in the Galaxy. Google would get all the views.  And it would screw over Microsoft and RIM.

Later on, Google, switched the Blackberry goal for iPhone and things really took off!

Hardware manufacturers were delighted. No longer would they have to hire those hipster geeks who wrote software. ( They were always embarrassing at the office parties anyway. Who needs them?)

These Google guys would just write the software for free. And the real phone engineers would slap that stuff into their hardware and … profit! Think how much richer they would be, now that they don’t have to waste cash on code monkeys.

Flash-forward by half a decade and things got both incredibly good and incredibly bad at the same time.

The entire world wants a smartphone. Smartphones were bigger than toasters. Bigger than TVs. Families wanted not one but one each.  Smartphones are big. Literally.

But something funny happened with the business. It split in a weird way.

The wealthy eyeballs all got Apple phones. So the really big profits all vanished from the market. But then at the low-end of the market, there was competition. Really, really serious competition. Those people who wanted a cheap phone, could go to anyone and get the same thing. So the only way to compete was to make an even cheaper phone.

It was like a force of nature. Like gravity. Prices just spiralled down. And suddenly no one was making money.  HTC – great phones -Makes a loss.

Sony – world-class cool designs – makes a bigger loss.  Sony are now considering shuttering their phone division because it cannot scrape a profit.

Every single Android handset maker was losing money. Sometimes losing billions in a year.

With just one gravity-defying exception.

Thanks to the most the incredible upward thrust of its marketing engines, Samsung managed to overcome gravity. It alone was profitable. Spending $14bn a year on marketing, it could escape the downward spiral.

And then, last year, it too started to falter. The top end of the market lost ground to Apple, the bottom end lost ground to low-cost local manufacturers like Xiaomi and MicroMax. This year it looks like Samsung will have it even tougher. Peak Samsung has happened. It too is going into free fall.

So this solution to a business problem has become a business problem.

Last week, Android looked out the window and said. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of brands.

For people developing on Android this must be a lot of no fun.

Trying to cope with all the variants, screen sizes, and different OS versions must be nightmarish. Even when their software is remarkable, the consumers are reluctant to pay for it. So devs are obliged to do stuff that must be monetized through advertising.

I don’t think Android will die anytime soon, but if this continues, it will become a toxic brand which consumers will associate with cut price hardware and poor experience. It will only be important to manufacturers who don’t care about such niceties, the ones who despite being technology companies are happy with margins smaller than go-ahead industries like sheep farming and plumbing supplies.

Google may not wait around for Android to go toxic.

Google is clever and sometimes ruthless. They may see a better solution.

culled from Forbes.com

wash.

1.
The real reason Samsung is successful is that it has vertical integration. almost every part used in a Samsung device is produced by other divisions of Samsung.

they have first call on materials, they can spec their devices to taste and design without limitation.
and more importantly they can get them cheap.

other OEMs have to place orders, queue up for product placement in China etc.


and best of all Samsung sells parts to other OEMS and therefore have knowledge of what they are doing beforehand.


2.
Samsung realized the heterogeneity of android and helped shape the market early on.

as much as they get criticism for copying apple the one thing they never did is copy apple business model. the idea of a single flagship and two midtier devices in a year was never going to corner the consumers android market. neither was selling one device for multiple years as lower end option.

Samsung releases close to 25 devices every year. let that sink in. 5 of every 10 devices available for sale on shelves are Samsung made.

let's face it, the same way toyota won't corner the luxury car market from lamoborghini, jaguar etc. is the way no one is gonna corner the luxury phone market from Apple. Asians do not dictate luxury, America and Europe does.


3. advertising
big advantage. Samsung made sure they are pretty visible.

BUT

if it was merely advertising surely another OEM could have had a go at the same tactic? even borrow money to advertise if it would guarantee success.

plus u also fail to factor in how much de-marketing Samsung faces. every damn America based media asset actively denigrates Samsung at every opportunity they get whilst taking their advertising money.

look at the Web, all those references to cheap plastic and laggy software came from where? people who have never bought a Samsung device go about complaining about it. go figure.

Touchwiz is hardly the worst skin in android yet nothing gets worse reviews than it. in fact you would think it was the only skin sef.

contrast Bendgate with any Samsung fiasco.
you see people, sites, critics, actively making excuses for Apple and trying explain away the flaws. u honestly think that can happen with Sammy? ......

and that's despite the fact that Samsung spend so much on PR.


the recent success of Chinese OEMs in cannibalizing the low end got so much play as being against Samsung you would be forgiven for thinking samsung would be dead in 6 months when in reality other companies are even worse off .

if low end market is not available for Samsung then how can it ever be for Sony and HTC?


Android will be fine. its too ubiquitous now to just die

when all is said and done, the only android OEM able to take massive losses and still stand is Samsung. the other parts of the Samsung group can support it like Microsoft keeps Windows Phone alive. the other ndroid oems will fold up before Samsung, that's for certain.

and for the Chinese cannibals, the solution is simple, Google just needs to grow the balls to do it. close android core sources remove everything else from the core and put them up as apps and close the source.

it means no more unofficial AOSP, it means a lot of sponsored demarketing from people who are gonna lose but to kill the cannibals, it needs to be done.

Gud a.m house, please I mistakenly removed the battery of my phone Solo S450 without putting off the phone and ever since then the phone has refused to on. Any help please?

4llerbuntu:
and for the Chinese cannibals, the solution is simple, Google just needs to grow the balls to do it. close android core sources remove everything else from the core and put them up as apps and close the source.

it means no more unofficial AOSP, it means a lot of sponsored demarketing from people who are gonna lose but to kill the cannibals, it needs to be done.

Will this not defeat the open source premise of Android and affect its perception as the "people's mobile OS"?

pls how do I backup my ROM that will contain scatter file etc flushable with sp flash tool

Lexusgs430, anyone...??
I've been searching for a custom ROM for my Note 2 Shv- e250s and I can't seem to find any..

Can anybody help me with a link

Hi guys.

Best Custom ROM for S4 I9500?

tayoast: Hi guys.

Best Custom ROM for S4 I9500?

Ask Google Sir....

nani667 post=/post/26830107:


Ask Google Sir....

Too generic. Need individuals' opinion & suggestions.

tayoast post=/post/26830349:


Too generic. Need individuals' opinion & suggestions.

You can also get Individuals' opinions and suggestions when you "Ask Google"

tayoast post=/post/26830349:


Too generic. Need individuals' opinion & suggestions.

You can also get Individuals' opinions and suggestions when you "Ask Google" ✔

Well there various roms for ur s4. It depends on the one u want be it touch wiz or stock android.

greetings all. pls i need info on how to use bis subscription on android and PC . thanks

codedflowz: Lexusgs430, anyone...??
I've been searching for a custom ROM for my Note 2 Shv- e250s and I can't seem to find any..

Can anybody help me with a link

check xda or check sammobile if you have an update

I don't know what's wrong with my root on my Tecno p5 I still have superSU installed but root checker says am not rooted and when I tried to root it again with framaroot which I used before, I got the error "Half success. The system partition is readonly try using local.prop trick".
I then decided to check google on how to make system partition read-write but all the tutorials said I require root. I don't know what to do now, PLEASE HELP ME.

Thanks in advance.