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so y'all saying that no no one has 3G in 800, 850, 1900 bands in naija?

no hope for me? not even glo?

hi, my samsung impression has for some reason refused to pick 3g signals. its stuck on edge. i have checked the network selection thingy and even used the debug code but i see that umts is enabled. but even wen i tried setting it to just gsm, v noticed it still stayed at edge. mtn edge is terrible. then please where can i get TRULY ORIGINALbattery? any samsung shop or dealer? actually id prefer to flash the fone to remove all the crazy AT$T stuff, but cant get anyone to do it or the firmware myself. PLS HELP OOOOOO

of course.

its cause of the difficulty and danger of getting to the stadium for the supporters. police had a hand in taking the decision anyway.

its the same for matches everywhere in uk

in which market is BB outselling iphone? nigeria shey?

cuz as a matter of fact that is just plain bull.

the onlyy thing holding up RIM fugures for now is the fact that they tried to go global, and mumu markets like the nigerian one are holding up.


as a matter of fact, look closely at the figures and see how just apple and android AMERICA ALONE figures are doing next to RIM GLOBAL, the u see that that coy is tottering on the brink of failure.

sure the started the smartfone market craze, but they have been left behind so badly, its hard to see how they gonna recover in time. by this time next year, even Nokia will be waaay above RIM despite of the debacle symbian is becoming. (at least they are trying.)

matter of fact, the only thing keeping BB on peoples hands is the enterprise server communication ability, once thats tackled by others, they are toast.

matter of fact, 3rd party apps do that on android already, and full seamless support is coming with the next android release by april next year.

that time na una for here go dey buy am only, like u pple seem to be the only ones who think Nokia is still a smartphone Behemoth

which one is christian dating?

if we dont shag or touch, and go to church together, is that not it? e nor pass say person nor go enjoy anything till u marry?

abi e pass like dat?

lol @ christian dating, talk about trying to feel very self important and justified.

may i recommend pastor TB Joshua?

as a matter of fact, even the whole chelsea club needs to visit TB joshua, abi how dem wan do the pablue picasso anointing/yoke? emergency draw specialists, chai. TB must help oooooooo

dipo2much:
AW has got so many things wrong in the past few years. Lettin certain players go,not adequately preparin for injuries and been too shrewd in the transfer market. But is that really sufficient to call for his head? why throw the baby away along with the water. Wenger made Arsenal what it is  today. Arsenal wouldnt have been any better than Everton or Aston Villa if not for him. And even with the inadequacies of the team,we are still a respected side. Any team that understimates us does that at itw peril. We will come good eventually. But I admit we MUST sign established players. We just have to. If not,there wont be any silverware.

dipo2much:
^^
Yeah,admittedly. But its worse to ask Wenger to go. Where do we then start from?

when i read stuff like the outlined, then i weep quietly inside.

you mean u actually think in THAT MANNER? Wenger "made" arsenal?  wenger-ball or wat did u call it is the ONLY GOOD BRAND OF FOOTBALL in the world?

where do we start from if wenger goes

aahhh, u see i begin to see sense with a lil fraction of the tripe donkeykanu says.


anyhow, way back in 2003/2004, i was opportuned to see an interview on CNN, and i told my pal then that this club was in trouble. turns out i was clairvoyant.

at that time, i was pissed off with the annual Viera saga, so u can understand my annoyance.

the occasion in the interview was some ceremony at ashburton grove (before they sold naming rights) and Peter Hill-Wood was speaking to reporters and was going on and on about how the stadium was down to wenger's passion, how he was the one who pushed for it, even when the board did not think it could work, how wenger and david dein secured the financing bla bla bla!

there and then i knew Wenger WILL NEVER BE SACKED AT ARSENAL, at least not by the present board, and also had an insight into what was going on.

if a club chairman was silly and gutless enough to be publicly saying that his job was being done by the coach he employed, and how they were indebted to the coach etc etc, then their is little or no hope.

the last vestige of commonsense and spunk in that club was David Dein, and when he saw the trends and wanted to get the club to move along with it, they promptly schemed him out. whether or not u agree with the sugar daddy experiment is moot, at least this was the last person who actually wanted the club to BE A CLUB

since then arsenal has lost its position and influence at the FA, lost its best players/best practices, forgotten how to win a trophy, are in the shackles of a coach who has found a real life fantasy football club to experiment and play footy manager with!



and the eternally gutless, forgetful fans have equally joined the mess and are tied to kissing the messiah's backside for taking them from being a domestic big hitter with pedigree to an internationally known, floosie, lightweight club with little or no point other than to provide entertainment for fans and foes alike.

arsenal was a domestic force pre premier league, along with United, liverpool, and Nottingham Forest, in case some are'nt aware or have'nt u heard of george graham, bertie mee etc? Bar liverpool, Arsenal had more local flavor and trophies to boot than the rest of the topflight combined!!
and in europe had won the fairs cup, and later the cup winners cup!!


Quite clearly the only hope resides in our "saviour and only hope" tiring of is "creation" and resigning.


this is where the flood of "stats" come pouring in about how wenger was the bestest thing since slice bread.

funny thing is, chelsea were nobodies for 50 years, then got a sugar daddy who spent and they still didnt get it right, then employed a coach who took them from nobodies to THE ONLY REAL THREAT TO MAN UTD AND THE REST OF EUROPEAN FOOTBALL! now thats sumtin crazy
even much more funny is they SACKED the bloody bugger, and the CLUB IS STILL WINNING TROPHIES AND IS STILL A THREAT ANYWHERE!.


in north london, our messiah is unmoveable, "where will we start?" reminds me of an illiterate footy fan i met once who actually thought wenger owned the club, because he felt that the names sounded alike      he honestly thot arsenal was gotten from arsene, such that he called the man "arsenal wenger"

i support the club not wenger, i dont think wenger is the only messiah we can have, i think he has gone as far as he can.
even more importantly, I WILL BE THE ONE TO SEE HIS BACK, not vice-versa.

ALL GUNS BLAZING. GUNNER TILL I R.I.P!!!! its all good. My peole keep the faith ya'll (and contact your neighbourhood spiritualist for special "work" for the carling cup, cuz without that, the team will not win the carling cup. this side lacks that lil thing the english call BOTTLE!!

its brand new, but its 3 months old

which one is it?

this pwi thingy is done for o, see as una screenies scarce!!!

The only way to open this editorial is to admit something I've been rather shy about on the pages of Engadget: I've been an avid BlackBerry fan and user for about six years now. I mean a real addict -- the kind who wakes up each morning looking for a blinking red LED, the kind who's refused to give up push email and BlackBerry Messenger in favor of more powerful, polished, and progressive mobile operating systems like iOS, Android, and webOS. In fact, when my Verizon contract was up last year I opted to get a Curve 8530 instead of the Motorola Droid or Palm Pre -- to say nothing of making the leap over to AT&T for the iPhone.

There were lots of reasons I didn't want to give up my BlackBerry, but five days ago I lost that very Curve in a San Francisco cab. Then coincidentally, a day later I saw RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis speak at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, where he almost embarrassingly avoided every question about the company's immediate smartphone strategy. I had always known that RIM was behind the curve (always a great pun!), but I also always had hope that the company would catch up with modern smartphones of today. Sadly, watching Mike dodge questions on the D stage took that hope away from me -- it's crystal clear that RIM won't have a solution to compete with those powerful smartphones anytime soon. So, what happens to a BlackBerry diehard like myself? Where do I go from here?

Before I get to the rather tragic events of the last week, it's only right to explain why I clung to a BlackBerry -- or "that dinosaur" as a certain clever, bagel-eating analyst repeatedly referred to it -- for so long. Yes, I endured countless inquisitions on why I refused to give up my Curve over the last couple of years, but I defended my attachment to the mobile platform with what became a prepared list of reasons. First, there was the form factor -- I absolutely love a good physical keyboard and I just couldn't imagine giving up the portrait keyboard for a soft keyboard. (I was able to type close to 50 words per minute on my old Curve 8330, after all.) And while I could get a physical keyboard on Android or webOS devices, I couldn't also get the messaging components of the BlackBerry OS -- and by that, I really mean BlackBerry Messenger. I'm more than aware that many don't understand the appeal of BBM (notably nearly all of my fellow Engadget editors!), but most of my closest friends and family have BlackBerrys, and the native messaging client absolutely destroys text messaging in terms of speed and capabilities. (I could spend a good 500 words on why BBM is so great, but that's really an entire editorial and RIM ad campaign unto itself.) There's also BlackBerry's unmatched push email speed -- many times I've reached for my BlackBerry to read a message long before it hit my laptop screen. Of course, there were other reasons to love my BlackBerry as well: good call quality, reliable networks, and yes, BrickBreaker. But BBM and the keyboard remained at the top of my list.

I figured that in a year or so, I'd buy a new BlackBerry -- one that would have all the features I love but also be faster, better at surfing the web, include real touch support, and have a broader selection of apps.
But, obviously, I had to make a lot of sacrifices for those features, including speed, app selection, and ease of use. How many times did a friend with an iPhone or an EVO look up a bar or restaurant using Google Maps at least a minute faster than me? At least 100. How long would I wait for my phone to reboot after installing an app? A solid four to five minutes without fail. How many times did I open my laptop and jump on 3G to look at a website, just to avoid having to wait until it would load on my phone? Believe me, more than I care to admit. Yes, I made lots of sacrifices for BBM and that keyboard, mostly because I believed RIM would eventually improve the OS and the hardware that powered it. I figured that in a year or so, I'd buy a new BlackBerry -- one that would have all the features I love but also be faster, better at surfing the web, include real touch support, and have a broader selection of apps.

Instead, RIM's given me the BlackBerry Torch as the answer to the iPhone and Android. I use the word "answer" lightly -- even a hard-core fan knows that the Torch isn't competitive, at least not in comparison to the other smartphones on the market. The Torch does provide a slightly better browsing experience, and BlackBerry 6 has been polished a bit, but still the general experience is sluggish and the applications are nowhere near as robust as the ones for iOS or Android. And when you look at it from a purely hardware perspective, the Torch offers a smaller screen, lower resolution, and slower processor than much more powerful phones on the market, yet costs nearly as much.

A major industry question suddenly became very personal: a year and a half after buying the 8530, was there really no solid smartphone option in the market from RIM?
Which brings me up to today. With my Curve lost somewhere between my hotel and San Francisco airport, a major industry question suddenly became very personal: a year and a half after buying the 8530, was there really no solid smartphone option in the market from RIM? Obviously, I knew the answers to that question -- I'm a tech editor after all -- but it wasn't until I saw Lazaridis speak a day later that I saw the writing on the wall for me and the company: RIM doesn't have a competitive smartphone now, nor will it have one any time in the near future. The mobile shackles I'd chosen to live in weren't going to be clipped off anytime soon -- in fact, it looked like the pain was only to get worse.

This must have been quite a performance by Lazaridis, right? It was, and I highly suggest you read the liveblog or watch the full interview. RIM's co-CEO muddled through explaining the company's mobile strategy, and while he stressed that it continues to see global growth, especially in 2G markets, he focused primarily on the upcoming PlayBook tablet. It was almost comical to watch Lazaridis respond to questions about the company's handset business with information about the upcoming tablet and skirt questions about its US smartphone business. Now, don't get me wrong, from what I've seen of the PlayBook, it looks absolutely awesome -- the QNX OS looks incredibly snappy and the interface is well laid out and extremely eye-catching -- but that's a tablet. What about the tablet that I want to put in my pocket, as one smart journalist asked Lazaridis at the conference? When will I get the power and apparent robustness of the PlayBook in a smartphone? Not for a while, Lazaridis let on. And that's where RIM seems to be totally adrift at the moment -- it's working on a powerful operating system for its seven-inch tablet without offering any hope that that work will pay off on its smartphones.

It's confusing -- RIM seems to be creating its own mobile class system of smartphone serfs and tablet nobles, if you will. Phones with an outdated OS have been given slight sprinkles of modern day functionality while the PlayBook receives fresh, multicore software with an innovative UI and apparently great performance. And while the plan is (apparently) to put QNX on higher end handsets once dual-core processors are ready, Lazaridis spent much of the interview defending BlackBerry 6 and avoiding offering any real timeframe on when we'd see QNX on phones -- even though dual-core chips like the Tegra 2 are already appearing on phones like the LG Star. It was all a bit hard to decipher, but the strategy seems to be: keep the current smartphone platform in the market at the moment, build out QNX on the PlayBook for a Q1 2011 release, work to bring the OS down to dual-core smartphones once the power consumption is right, and then finally enter the high-end smartphone game for real -- a timeframe that seems to stretch out at least a year if not more. That strategy might makes sense on a few levels, but Apple, Google, Microsoft and Palm aren't going to sit still while RIM gets to work, and I need a phone now.


Nope, it all doesn't leave a BBM-loving, BlackBerry diehard in search of more than just great messaging and a physical keyboard in a good place. And I think you can see why watching Lazaridis speak was the breaking point for someone like myself, who had been waiting for at least a year and a half for RIM to put out a phone we can call great by today's standards. Indeed, I'm excited about QNX on phones and everything else that's promised in the next few years (heck, add Windows 8 and Light Peak to the list!), but I'm left with zero options from RIM today, tomorrow, or even in the next few months. So, I had to do what lots of people out there have already done, the unimaginable for a true BlackBerry fan: I walked into a Verizon store, forgot about that BlackBerry defense list, and signed a two-year contract on a Droid 2 Global. I'd like to think that by the time my contract is up I'll be able to buy a BlackBerry with more than just great email and messaging, but until then I'm trading in BBM for SMS, Kik, and GChat.


http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/15/editorial-rim-seems-to-be-as-lost-as-my-blackberry/

well i just have one weeny tiny question.

after this season, can we try another coach? cuz really am fed up with all this somebody knows tripe. 6 years is too long for any decent side laying claim to elite status to go without winning anything. and i really dunno what new magic monsieur hook nose wants to perform.

there is not just one way to do things. its time to move on. shift the guy into director of football or sumtin and give someone else the team to handle and lets see. this is becoming embarrassing. we can continue looking for positives all we like but its abundantly clear that shyte aint getting desired effect.


all this, player this is indispensable, manager that is irreplaceable rubbish is really beginning to grate my nerves. trophy producing long ball is better than no result producing short passes jare

una never repent?

make una nor enter new year like dis o!!!!! REPENT!!!




by the way, i see that small small naw, una don dey plan coup for me, una wan remove me as presido of the thread shey? becos i retire from screenie temporarily?

ehen, even my able associates like lynxnoon sef don dey do army arrangee behind me. v3 was always a renegade, he even once threatened to collect my wife wit screenie!!! thank God say i nor slack!

puskin, na anor matter entirely, him dey try small sha, only say im too like facebook chicks so tay im forget the presido!!! chai!

alrite. the old soldier neva die o. make break come first, make una come see as i go dey discipline una one after the other on this thread.

u can still redeem urself sha o

@ koolwilly, maan that modem is still not working? after all?

u sure u did those sturvs or u just freed dem for being too confusing? maybe u shld get a huawei really o.

well, my gripe with mint is: if they wanna branch and get a full distro of their own, so be it, but i truly disliked them spreading FUD about how bad canonical/ubuntu was, i mean for crying out loud!!!

i have taken it up with them on their site, and they resorted to blocking out my posts.

ubuntu is bad, yet they released 10 remixes based on ubuntu, all the while claiming to improve it. we shall see sha, shebi dem don start now. they think its easy

yeah right.

ok so a no-hoping, gold digging, alhaji-whoring ho all of a sudden now deserves our tears and sympathy., boo hoo.

waiting for the hand out bags to go round so we can drop our widows mite


tseew, arrant nonsense and rubbish. did she put up pictures of when alhaji fatso was doling out cash in extreme amounts to her so u could join her celebrate her good fortune and mourn your own otherwise fortunate life?

and please, how do educated people on NL fail to appreciate reports? thats a COURT ORDERED EVICTION, IM AM VERY VERY SURE SHE WAS WELL INFORMED BEFOREHAND! for all you know, it may not even be the man who is involved!!.  he probably sold off the property and the new owner is taking possession!

and pray, if not for wanting to score cheap publicity points, how did a camera turn up at that location?



she is good at it, let me give better hints on how to get back at alhaji. she should look for other embittered members of the harem, get info as to alhaji's assets and stuff, pay a visit to EFCC in the company of one of alhaji's sworn political enemies! SIMPLE!


So she mean say after countless years of enjoying state wealth with alhaji, she cannot account for any money of her own?
this is either a BIG FAT CHUBBY CHEEKED, KOGI LIAR, or one of the WORLDS DUMBEST RUNS BABES!

err, somebody finally decided to dig up this thread!!

wellz, what can i say, it gets kinda weird when u talk to ur self on the thread all the time.


i think we should instead ask dem mods to let the thread continue to grow. they delete threads when they get to 100 pages, but in this case, their is a wealth of info and how to on this thread that i would be sorry to miss, i have even had to come consult solution i posted myself for people. these stuff are'nt easy to come by u know!


anyways, wats new? news info?

yeah, and i heard canonical is trying to start a dictatorship, mint team are simply being dumbasses, spreading FUD and badmouthing ubuntu all over the linux world. its now that they know ubuntu is bad, yet they have been building on ubuntu for years simply cos they trying to start their own independent release based on rolling debian

as in i dont even understand how anyone wants to have a noob friendly desktop os based on debian testing. they even market it by saying all u need is one install, u can continue updating for years on end. please why would i wanna do 900mb updates every month?

and canonical with this their unity/gnome3 brouhaha sef. gnome project is feeling very bitter and abandoned now and boy are dey spouting shyte about canonical.
even fedora is rumoured to be considering unity too. too bad for gnome project folks.


all in all, whats ur take on this sturvs, whats new anyway.

@ binhozie, go look at that chaps advert again, the same one you are doing superman over, now read it closely. .  . .  now pls tell me what common sense is there in the mtn vs iwp ad ? iwp na service provider?

if u missed the point, playing superman by insulting people just does not cut it. what did u aim to achieve? u want attention? or a hug? nobody was replying ur illuminating posts and u felt ignored?

really, truth is you have not introduced yourself to this community properly at all, and a new username wont assuage the error. ciao

@ mobinga, how mush is dat "thing", mashine, gadget. . . . . . , eeh oo. i dey hot o, i wan faint

wellz, i also suppose that in your gay-induced wet dreams, liverpool have also been performing better in europe and domestically than the clubs below them in those rankings u posted?

pap is never a good substitute for brain matter o!!! wipe the dribble of your chin man!

LAWD SAVE US!!

u mean we now gonna have a whole tv station devoted solely to showing the rich as they squander our money at parties?

i see the fagg0ts and mufus have entered into an alliance of the dumb and daft.

only on the munschit thread will loquacious stoopidity be equated to quasi-intelligence. see them mouthing inane bullshyte in rota. kai, o maa shey o!
well sha not surprised, water must find him lefel, birds of the same plumage. . . . . . . .

use bolt browser, it wont display it, but after loading the page, wait a bit then refresh that page, u will get ur link

well aint no phone geek but i do know for a fact that actually, most of the clones out of china sport windows mobile 6.5 and not android.
funny u mention it but i never came across a chinko fone online or real life with android on it

point me in the direction of one please


anyway, really who cares? do u people even know that these ur debate veers on the pointless? Texazzpete has a predilection of jumping into debates on NL to pass his spare time he finds it stimulating ^{(go spend some of the time u spend typing these flames on the wifey man)}

^^ i swear wetin the guy bazz pass just smoke, e be like say the chap na carbide + battery carbon e dey inhale.
anyway sha, e nor matter, NL na place for all manner of ridiculous things.

@ puskin make una help me market am abeg. i thot the damn thing was 64 KBps, its 32. its of no use to me

pls iv got 48 basic vouchers for sale. pls o. make somebody come buy o. 700 naira. costs 820 currently. preferably vtn transfer of funds but i will take any other format u wanna use

the sooner arsenal fans and board get over this rudiculous fixation with wenger, the better. so there is no other coach in the world that can coach/manage arsenal? are u even aware that he has no justification for his position at this point? even ancellotti isyshaking and its not even a washed out season yet. where in the world would a coach get away with wat wenger gets away with? tseew

multiget has not seen an update in over a year. i guess it still does small sha

jdoenloader does, IF YOU CAN HUNT DOWN A CURRENTLY WORKING PLUGIN FOR RS.

i havent used it in months though, not even sure i remember where i used to get it.

buh if u really want that kinda stuff, then get greasemonkey plugin for firefox and start hunting the right extensions and scripts for fiirefox. thats better than any program. that one works like magic, when u get the koko one. all those countdown disappears, u get a premium acct link etc etc.

chai i don rusty sha, good old days when hunting na childsplay.
this days to find proxy sef i no fit again, old age sha

see shot for the serious doubters

hmmn, who oooooooooo?

ok naw, make i nor lie, e dey pain me say i wan vote for this guy, cuz we are adversaries when its convienient, buh sha the dude keeps me entertained cuz he simply cannot keep away from stirring controversy and engaging in endless debates over anything.

none other than TEXAZZPETE!!!