.

the main point is that when u complain about tecno 512ram,always no that they are lots of samsung,htc,sony xperia,iphone with 512 ram and are still expensive..here we have a tecno that is just half d price of d same big name android of d same specification...a tecno might not av d quality display like them but we are not colour blind now,and this phones can still run a couple of applications and games,also it does d main function of a simple android phone,why will i buy a galaxy pocket for a huge amount when i have a choice of tecno p5,and mind u this is just a new era for them...more product are yet to come,u want a 16million colour phone?...get tecno s5,but bcoz u wont like is 512ram...then wait for a 1gb ram with 16million colour...else we can go for other product,but bcoz this guys are just coming and havnt givin u a device like s4,s3 doesnt mean they cant produce somethin of such.

Another point is on durability,for i prefer a plastic coverin on d screen rather than glass,bcoz d strength of a plastic when it falls is better than glass,we have since case of damage samsung screen and very expensive to replace,i didnt say a plastic protected screen wont damage but its durability is better than glass,which also make d phone lighter to carry,and thats d case of tecno,but i can advise them to make more of semi-metallic casing for d firmness and rigid protect of d phone,bcoz a plastic covering tends to shatter whenever it falls..but doesnt easily break though.

but all d same,durability depends on how well you can handle.you phone,gorilla glass or not it will still break..but as for tecno and my experience with it,..my major concern is on OTA,..i can change my phone if i'm not satisfied with d network mode,screen size,ram or processor,operating system,camera pixel which are d major backbone, of enjoyin an android phone...i can just switch to a better tecno...i have been a phone freak,and i want my iphone 4 to be d last gadget i squander money,its time to start investin on better thing,not on a gadget that will keep bringin in new development...an tecno is ready to help me save some money with been deprived of my android experience...some phones are at d peak of technology,while some are just startin...and thats d case of tecno..u should only applaud their innovation bcoz its a marvelous work by tecno and its pairs to come out with a android product at such relative cheap price,technology is cheap they always saud,but some choose to make it expensive..now its left to us to be economical or otherwise.

pDude:

Now let me school you.

Samsung, apple inc, htc, hp, etc all have their factories in China and they manufacture their products there. That is why they write: made in China. These companies ensure that the manufacturing standards of their products are high.

Chinko made is also made in China but the products made belong to chinese companies. These are companies like tecno, etc. Their standards are low and their products are cheap. That is why they are called chinko.

Hope you have learnt something today.

It is Nigerians that have labelled Chinko as something bad. I never said anything bad about chinko or term it as bad

now i guess u av takin back ur words,and u gat some point and acceptin d fact that some of samsung e.t.c products has come to existence with d availability of resources from china..good u av clearified that..but if u say low standard its ur opinion maybe bcoz they avnt come out with a product that will rip u off,well all i av to say is d issue of tecno arising is just like a company comin out to produce a phone like curve 4,bold 3 and bold 5 when d world is already aware of z10,z30 and d rest...also samsung and other big name myt av gotten hype bcoz they prefer to use frigile but attractive materials in d finishin work of their product while tecno chose a less expensiv and cheap to replace material doesnt guaranty durability,wateva product it is,its left to d consumer to derive optimum satisfaction out of it,and make e can afford and bear whateva damage or fault that d device might encounter later on...its left to us to make our choices rights.

pDude:

There is a difference between China made and Chinko. You know this

And who are you to call me ode

and wetin b d meaning of chinko?...all this i too know people self, na them no let naija progress....every company has a touch of china in it,and in terms of technology china is among the best,u can call all those noise makin tecno's chinko..just like how people call nokia torch light phones palasa..but u cant call a tecno android chinko,bcoz its function is better than blackberry,nokia lumia or symbiam...u are not a phone developer,so ur layman mentality will always make u think once a phone price is low...then its chinko...shame on u bro.

pDude: You all stop buying cheap chinko products that don't last. Invest in a samsung or htc android.

I'm so ashamed of you,so phone na investment abi....u better say squander your money on samsung or htc...whoever is investin is d one that has money to buy a samsung but instead choose to buy a tecno with basic specification and then add d remainin money to his business...bcoz as u mention invest...e b lyk say make i daze u.

jelel6:
true that. But price is not usually the deciding factor. Let the specs be the deciding factor. Am ready to buy another device if the price matches the specs.

some nigerians go coz riot bcoz of price..remember d debate that m5 should be sold for 18k?..so let them just do what day like..to me..its still owk bcoz d processor will do some work,and d s5 is still better than p5 bcoz of 16million color and 4.5 inch screen...if d price is owk wit d spec,even my iphone 4 with 512 ram is more expensive..and i cant protest for apple...but 1gb ram isnt bad too,but if u aint gonna load ur phone with too much app,512 should be enough..with a good processor

xxxtedyxxx:


Like I said earlier...u aint makin any sense...dats not an insult..its plain fact. If u aint cool wit tecno, buy sth else..and stop venting ur frustration and deriding tecno devices. I av used a galaxy s3...I don't av to start braggin abt d high end devices I av use?..na by device?..abi make u get money for pocket. Someone said earlier..dat tecno can't play 1080vids, upon all his dumb arguments, some proved it wit valid screenshots?..so what else.. Tecno is chinco..is samsung not korean chinco?.. Am still laughing @ u..like seriously. If u think a device is beta..go for it..nobody dey hold u..coming online and posting thrash abt a device doesn't make kill d brand or prevent d fone from selling in d markets. If u get money..go buy buggati..den jam am against wall.. Mtchewww..

hahahahaha..truetalk

Love_Decay:



Young man, these are some of the comments you made so far. Reading through them, you will notice - you have made no valid/logical attempt to defend your TECH-NO chinko phone.

You keep insulting and throwing words around, and it has gone a long way to proove you are new to issue's such as this. I believe, your techno is the first high-end device , hence you have no experience or knowledge for this discussion.

How can a man who manage to get 350K to buy a used car , drive into a parking lot and say to luxury BMW and BENZ owners that his automobile is far better than there's simply because he got his cheaper, it has headlights, seats, an engine and a trunk.

It's plain stupid, and only ignorance can fuel such an argument.

oga just go and buy samsung and let people who prefer tecno buy it,absense of added features wont make d tecno phones not to perform its android function...u just cant convince me enough because i av used many samsung android when i was a phone freak,and presently i av an iphone 4 whose ram is even 512 and i laugh when people complain of tecno's 512ram,d so call big company gave me a phone of 100+ For 512ram,all you av to do is love-vendor ur device to suit ur taste,just like love-vendor my ride...i agree with u that they are added feature on some samsung phones,but thats why u pay more for it,but as for d main features u can find it on any device,and that doesnt make them chinko,hardly will u see a product without china handwork in it,every company just add its own finishing touches on it,which makes them different,sony xperia doesnt av smart play,s-voice e.t.c but will u bcoz of that call them chinko,oh or bcoz u didnt see their first product and our wack it was,tecno av just started just like every other company ahead of them,but are yet to giv u expensive product,then u will realise its all market strategy,and u are bein exploited...bcoz in some part of d world,technology is cheaper,thats why u av tecno....samsung might av done something marvellin for phone freaks,but added features doesnt make others chinko..am nt sayin tecno is better than samsung like s4, s3....but as phones without added features,,,they are as good as tecno...forget about name...

jelel6: men. This tecno is something else. Imaging they have release two new devices, s5 and p9. They are really crazy. The s5 only improvement over m5 is that the display is IPS with 16 million colours.however they cut corners with the ram which is 512 mb. I must confess that tecno's market strategies is nothing less than expliotation.

but if they make it 1g ram it will be more expensiv than m5

Rexyl: peeps aren't tired of tecno this tecno that when shall we lay our hands on quality or sub quality Naija androids. where are the indigenous engineers from our numerous polytechnics and universities to pioneer the project. are they waiting for when the institutions will be as old as Methuselah? Feeding ourselves with simple technologies produced by secondary school students from China! Awesome! Naija version should by fire by thunder make the list here in the coming season. oh Naija...I love that...

it begins with u bro

akhis: I have taken my time to read every post on this thread and I realized that only one person made a significant post against Tecno and it was the guy that said Tecno's android don't have updates OTA and like Samsung has had like three this year
Everyother person against Tecno are just posts on ego. Do we pay for name or service? This is how people were crazy about Sony and Panasonic brands when LG came out. because LG was cheap, they said Sony was better. With time LG has come to stay and people now realize u buy service and not name. How many Sony brands do u see in people's homes today?
I must confess that I was previously in that category and that was why I saved this page for three days before I finally had time to read all to discover that the OP was just misleading. We all change our phones maximum 18 months so why should I spend much on a phone that I will change sooner or latter or at best the maker will make me feel I have the inferior when they would have brought out different models after every five months? When BB z10 came out and the price was more than 100k, people that bought it were calling it machine but now that it's 47k, they now call it useless BB all in a space of less than a year. Like a poster said, we are beyond the era of judging the pocket with d gadget on our hands

you got my point right bro,d only problem i av wit tecno is OTA,and another point to got right is d way we change our phones due to new ones coming out again,one has to be economically wise,bcoz if u buy a tecno today,its very easy to sell it without loosin much,and get another one which is latest,unlike get so called bigname phones and then find it hard to sell bcoz at first few people will be able to afford it,and secondly the way they will price it ehn..u go wan cry..

Idrismusty97: Mehn thanks.i wish i could give you More likes.

it is what it is bro...people need to realize some things mehn

sincerely i'm just tired of people spitin trash about one phone or d other and downgradin tecno phones bcoz of their own personal problem with it,let me just tell you all one thing..if you dont have any basic knowledge of how to love-vendor ur device to ur taste u will alway av problem with any device u av,android os is a very friendly os that is meant for u to love-vendor up to serve what u need it for,but it some cases its hardware capability might hinder it from performin that function,so all you need to do is get a phone wit a higher specification,but who ever says a tecno phone is trash is either drunk or has mental disorder,bcoz that phone is what i call simplicity,it can do majorly what u need an android device for,if you say it doesnt play hd games then u av a problem bcoz all tecno phone i had come accross runs hd games perfectly but some just have problem run this games due to either d game size which is too big for d processor or d ram,a tecno n3 can run a game up to 400mb convinently,e.g. contract killer,frontline commando,real racing 2 but for real racing 3 it lags at times because its larger than real racing 2,so also i believe it wont b able to run dungeon hunter 4 so well,but phone like phantom a+,m7 and a3 runs them convinently,i am a phone geek and i know a lot of in and out on how to turn my little device into a superb machine,if u av a problem with a device,first u av to have a little technical know-how on how to love-vendor this device up else u will just conclude its a trash without even doin any research on how to solve that problem..another point is that,i have been a phone freak and i have used many device,i-phone,samsung,e.t.c. and d major difference between a samsung android and a tecno android are things one can do without,e.g. display,smart pause e.t.c. afterall when i hard my samsung nexus,it also has problem with games even then someone who use a tecno sent me brothers in arm which i couldnt play on it,it force close,which later i had to understand i need to download some games directly my self,bcoz some games wont work unless you download urself bcoz it has to download d required display data for particular device,so my point is that no matter what device u use,u will alway have only particular problem,all u need to do is research on our to solve it by visitin treads like nairaland e.t.c or askim phone geeks to help u out,but rating a device off based on software is total trash,right now i have an iphone 4 and a tecno device phantom a+,i will say i prefer my phantom bcox its user friendly,bcoz of iphone issh of third party app,bluetooth pairing e.t.c. but i wont dispute d fact that my iphone as a quality display but to get apps on it will Bleep out more cash from me,why on my phantom all i need to do is google search,download an install,afterall most iphone apps are also available on android,and d fact i sold my samsung nexus and but phantom a+,i dont regret it,bcoz i save extract cash and i'm still enjoy android function,forget about d 16gb memory it has,i can get a memorycard for my phantom,or d 16m colours,phantom display isnt bad,and am not colour blind to differentiate colours,those extract efisi are what one can over look if u are economically wise,and what do i need smart pause,scroll,s-voice for when i'm not handicap,all are just for phone freaks,and i have also come to think of it,a plastic screen is more durable than a glass,just like throwing a glass cup and a plastic on d ground,tell me which one will get damaged more,and again,if my phone eventually got damaged,i can still hard little amount from d money remainin if i didnt go for a more expensive device and get another phantom,unlike buyin s3 for 67k,it got damaged and i will be like damn 67k gone,we just have to be economically wise,and have technical know-how,else we will all keep coming with trash like sayin one device is chinko and d other is better,d sooner we realise tecno is no more d tecno of tv and antenna d sooner we realise their innovation,d only problem i was havin with them before was d 512 ram and non availability of upgrade,bcoz its true a 512 ram wont do much,but thnkgod a 1gb ram now available and with fair enough 1.2-1.3ghz processor,i av no problem in term of games,and no application i cant run,its all about progress and soon enough they will come up wit 2gb ram,rome wasnt built in a day,afterall d sole call samsung all started from somewhere,welcome tecno innovation and stop critisizin it,u can get a samsung if u like but d advantage it has over tecno,gionee e.t.c. are mare ones,which can be overlooked if u want to be economically wise..if u av a problem with one tecno device get a better one which will suit ur purpose and if u dnt like tecno,ur money is urs to squander on htc,sammy e.t.c...i have used samsung,why i choose tecno isnt bcoz i'm poor,but i've set my priority right,i still av an iphone for my efisi and media back ups but my tecno phone does more of d work for me..a house is a house,its d design and interior thatadds value to it,i hav a business and i cant squander money on a device that can get spoilt any time,...be wise,its left

bhaliz44: M5 ND P5..which of gat a wider screen? Thnx

M5(4.5)..P5 (4.0)...which is wider

bastien: Abegi make Nokia go sit down,Samsung ahead of the game,and they will even get more better,Nokia n Blackberry dey for thesame position for the table,dem dey drag to enter top 4,to qualify for next season sales lol!!!
1.Samsung
2.I phone
3 HTC
4.LG

oga comot that l.g and put sony ericsson

stillmaticOG:

it seems u dont knw wat i mean,wen i mean hd games im not talking about fifa12,need for speed,bladeslinga or frntline commando..i mean games like modern combat 4,nova3, the gods,wild blood etc coz i can boldly tell u dat n3 and p3 cant play such games.

oga my own tecno n3 dey play frontline commando,..and other games like Aralon HD,Deathdome,contract killer,real racing 3..d only problem that it has is with any hd games above 700mb lags at times e.g. real racing. and believe its due to its 800mhz processor and 512:ram,but m5 should definately play those games with ease since it has 1300mhz proccssor and 1gb ram..

bboyZ: FLEXING

which launcher is this

WhiteNiccur: You are obviously giving out good points,but the fact that you choose to insult people while at it does not make sense.

I'm not a fan of android, I use an iphone & I'm currently using the airtel BIS plan. We know it's a cheat but will any reasonable person choose to pay more for data when he can pay less?

So it's not only people with "cheap android phones" that use the cheat, even my colleagues with iphone 5s use it too.

I have really been waiting for them to block the cheat so Nigerians can realize how expensive data plans are. Imagine paying 1000naira for 250MB that won't even last me 2days. The average Nigerian can't afford it!!!

I don't think it will cost these service providers anything to subsidize the cost of data plans. People will use up more data if it were cheaper and faster.

My friends in UK stream seasonal movies online, when will that happen in Nigeria?

I should also use these opportunity to complain about the incessant SPAM text messages from MTN and AIRTEL, it's TOO MUCH.

I even called customer care about it and they were bold to tell me nothing can be done about it.

NOT FAIR!!!

Instead of doing promos where they give out millions to just one person, they should make data plans affordable so everyone can be happy.

u av said it all bro,but to me u still dont count what i paid as cheat but this same people network people will deduct my balance for no good reason,u will call their customer care,they will be tellin u trash,so if they can cheat me and defend themselve,if i cheat them and defend myself i guess no wahala..cheat or no cheat,i paid for it,let them just do somethin better to internet tariffs,and i will support Op on tweetin to NCC,if something can b done which doubt,.

which the use of launcher like ez laugher or xperia arc s launcher,it will make d interface so cool.

shady16:

Ok, sir. No do mek dem block am leave me na. I dey beg.

lol

Vires: Someone else made this comment

4llerbuntu: But if you actually do use a
blackberry, why would you use airtel on it?
somebody explain why it makes sense to
use airtel when other networks have better
network performance and give higher data
quota for less.
1k on glo, eti and mtn gives u 3gb of data.
1.5k on airtel is 2gb with terrible network

And this was my reply

That is why I think it is a marketing strategy to
make plenty of money for the end year, a lot of
non bb user have been renewing their accounts
since this announcement was made
They know exactly what they are doing

he was talkin about those blackberry users who are airtel love strucked,who chose to use airtel maybe bcoz it was there sim from birth,and still wont port to better blackberry offer from other network,bcoz whether market strategy or not,d blockage wont affect bb users..so why not go for mtn that was his opinion.

shady16:

Continue announcing it. Airtel will soon block that loophole... n na u go still com curse dem.

lol...i was secondin his comment dude,why ur blood come dey hot,if them like make them block am,i use mtn on serious package,just subscribin to their network to browse for fun.

HeWhoMusntBeNamed: fairly used m5 4 sale??

how much,and whats d condition

Vires:

Yep, go ahead it is still working, I use the same plan
Just make sure you don't let your data finish b4 you re-subscribe




Yep, go ahead it is still working, I use the same plan
Just make sure you don't let your data finish b4 you re-subscribe

thats d way it keeps workin,dont let ur data finish before subscribin another.

danny402: Well this one now is what D'banj will call "u on the long thing" I ve already quietly sold my android phone and airtel sim on wednesday and bought my self a new bold 5 with mtn 1k BB subscription. Mehn MTN is the bomb there ntwwrk is blazing fast, I no longer have to come outside anymore whenever. I want to browse with my android/Airtel subscription come join their slow netwrk. Guys use ur heads like dustbin ohhhhhhhhhh

atleast u said something meaningful..switchin to blackberry bcoz u wanna minimize cost and going for a better network not stickin to a slow network we are managin coz android/iphone sack..those who prefer android still will av a choice of goin for mtn #2500 or something fair,or get better still get a blackberry for internet stuff and reserve d android/iphone for more advance purpose,for those who av d money though..u switchin blackberry + mtn network is d best alternative decision u make,not someone tryin to defend airtel poor network or blockage of bis bcoz android/iphone user patronize them but we think they were sensible in makin d bis work in respect to other network choosin to be stingy wit it,best of luck bro,enjoy ur bb...coz even if i go for it,that doesnt still make it a better device than cheap androids that OP said.

mickonzo112:

so u didn't insult me because you are being civil or because you didn't want to place yourself in the "idiots" category? So the fact that you paid for it makes it right? I guess you've never paid for anything in your life so paying for Airtel BIS to you is like buying shares in the company.

hey u retard maggot,now see how u just prove urself as d real *idiot* here,i wont mock u for ur poor reasonin faculty coz u know nothin about how much i spend on internet and things i pay for,bcoz you are payin this cheap amt on ur blackberry crap device make u assume bullshit,or bcoz u are so dumb on how to use ur money to get what is equal to its optimum value should make u think like a nonentity,payin for airtel bis wont be my first and wont be my last,u dont av any say over me bcoz we pay d same amount even if i dont pay much more coz of my device,and for d self-satisfyin greedy reason why airtel choose to block d usage is their cup of tea coz av gat alternatives,and doesnt mean i've cheated them,d payment goes into their account not mine,for categorizing anybody countering ur comment as an idiot shows u already know u avnt said any thing really sensible,coz if u do..people will only correct u,and not insult u..no court in d world will accuse me on cheatin them,i paid for it,and they render the service to me,they decide not to offer me d service anymore,i look else..simple business transaction.

mickonzo112: True talk OP. I benefited fro it too cos I practically converted my blackberry torch 3 to a wireless router using the hotspot to connect my other devices.

Insulting Airtel for discontinuing it means that our leaders have the right to loot us dry. The point I'm trying to make here is that for the fact that there is a loophole in the system doesn't mean we should use it 4 our personal satisfaction only. We are doing the same thing our leaders are doing but just on a different level.

I know a lot of people will disagree but it is the truth. The idiots amongst us can go ahead n insult me now

ofcoz u know u deserve an insult,..but silence will be better for u..always know that anything paid should never be refer to has cheat,talk about magic sim,thats a cheat.its all a market strategy to extort customers.

kayswag100:

This has to be the most outstanding and pragmatic thread in all of NL.

imagine the insults I got when I talked of something similar (though I was a bit to condescending sha. ...) on why Airtel's bb plans would stop working on Android et al.

You could stop replying the nasty posts. That was a mistake I made.

hehehehe.. see them,birds of same feathers...u don see ur fellow man bah?....lol,...just wanna tell you that,when you learn not to be bias in ur statements,nobody will insult..imagine if d case was otherwise,and blackberry where d once to pay for huge cost on internet as android,iphone users are doing,wont you feel bein treated unfairly even though one has d money to pay for it,does it mean one should apply common sense spendin,and that shouldnt stop me from gettin a device i love and cherish...think that way bro,..bcoz we don wanna use a lowend technology device,thus that meant all this network should extort us.

LORDVEST: to thread creator:

IF YOU USE A CHEAP ANDROID DEVICE DOESN'T MEAN I ALSO USE A CHEAP DEVICE... PLEASE WATCH YOUR WORDS... I KNOW THE PRICE OF MY ANDROID DEVICE, AND I WOULD NOT ALSO JOIN UR FOOLISHNESS TO LOOK DOWN ON YOU AND CONCLUDE YOU USE A CHEAP DEVICE... THIS IS A GENERAL OPEN FORUM .. PLS BE WEARY OF WHAT YOU SAY BEFORE YOU ATTRACT UNNECESSARY FEEDBACKS. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. IT'S NOT BY FORCE TO CREATE A TOPIC... EVEN THO I SUPPORT THE FACT THAT THE NCC IS WHO WE SHOULD PAY COMPLAINTS TO,.... THANKS..





NO OFFENCE MEANT .HOWEVER YOU TAKE THIS IS YOUR BUSINESS.... P34C3

abi oooo,tell them.. that am not so foolish to buy a blackberry that wont do all i need a complete device for,doesnt mean i cant afford it,no be their fault..na bcoz tecno done help d mass to be able to afford android at cheaper rate,them come categorize android as cheap phones..why them no talk cheap iphone...shebi we gather dey use d airtel too ni.

phiszo:
You are the fool. What's the full meaning of bis?

still doesnt make it a cheat,just like me subscribin for 8gb plan for pc and use it on a blackberry...Cheat is different from a paid service..forget d nane u use in ordering for d service,.u hack them to use a cheat,but we pay them to use this service.afterall,i was registered on their system and allowed to work,but bcoz of their greed knowin,other device will derive full optimium pleasure for their money than a blackberry which doesnt consume much bcoz its not a spectacular device,rather more a lowend technology..it pays them more,bcoz they find it easy extortin blackberry user than other advance technology devices.

senbonzakura_kageyoshi:

You are quite right, though I'm sure most will slag you cos, I admit, you did sound a tad condescending....like the other guy that opened a thread in the phones section to explain how the whole BIS thing was going to end. Thing is, people had got kind of used to the whole airtel thing being available so to suddenly find themselves without an alternative (cheap, at any rate), they had to turn on the party "denying" them their cheap internet: Airtel. Even more so because a huge majority of android/PC users that got airtel lines for browsing with BIS didn't have airtel sims before the whole thing started and only acquired sim cards for the purpose, so when they say they'll throw the sim away or relegate it to "the bench", I believe them.

I don't know how much airtel stands to benefit from this (though the general impression is that they gained from it seeing that people that normally wouldn't smell Airtel from a distance not just bought sims but paid for BIS as well) so it's really their business why they chose to shut it down. I was rather impressed that they thought it wise to notify customers before the shut out (unlike *clears throat* a certain yellow network that would just slam the door in your face....two days after you've subscribed for 6gb ).

Others are aggrieved because, usually, what Nigerians consider to be "browsing cheats" don't cost them anything. But since theyt were p[aying for the Airtel ish, they felt they had some kind of say in whether it sdtays or goes and such like so it did irk them to receive SMSs from Airtel declaring the "awoof" would be ending.

All in all, i'm just thankful that half the time, i'm at work and I use the wireless internet there. Off-work, I manage 2k for 500MB.

u make sense small jawe,atleast u said some real facts unlike some people bcoz they dont know what it takes to maintain an iphone/android/pc in terms of internet accessibility,and keep talkin like someone who doesnt know anythin about economics,all well and good its their cup of tea,,,but its a surprise u prefer 500mb for 2k than 4.5gb or lets say 1.5gb for 2.5k...everyman has a choice anyway.

pawesome: bros,afta dis ur data expire,shikenan...u cn Neva use it again if u recharge so a beg,no waste ur 1500k o say u de reload n subscribe

gbagbe oshi,did another one today,and its added to my previous one,and its still workin