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Phones › Re: Mtn Free 1gb Of Data by jedisco(m): 4:03am On Jan 27, 2013

Damon03: send 2 to 131 or use *559#

Ok. Thanks

Phones › Re: Mtn Free 1gb Of Data by jedisco(m): 5:53pm On Jan 25, 2013

jedisco: It's been long I used MTN data plans but I just noticed they no longer charge me for data.

Please can someone remind me how to check your remaining data.

Make person answer me naw

Phones › Re: Help An Iphone Newbie by jedisco(m): 10:32am On Jan 24, 2013

[quote author=Charmin']A friend wants to get a nokia smartphone not more than 45k which one will you suggest?[/quote]There are two options here.
First is Nokia 701 which is a good symbian phone. The other is Nokia 800 which is also a good phone and is very beautiful.

If that friend is not in a hurry, I would suggest he/she waits for Nokia 620 which should be available in 1-2 months. It runs windows phone 8, is better than the two above and should come in below 50k

Phones › Re: Mtn Free 1gb Of Data by jedisco(m): 10:21am On Jan 24, 2013

It's been long I used MTN data plans but I just noticed they no longer charge me for data.

Please can someone remind me how to check your remaining data.

Phones › Re: Help An Iphone Newbie by jedisco(m): 2:30am On Jan 10, 2013

Francheezy: una 2 dey make me l0l

Hmm...
Una??
Abeg na who be the una cos I can't remember encountering him before.

Phones › Re: Help An Iphone Newbie by jedisco(m): 8:56pm On Jan 09, 2013

shagarri: Advice the OP and move on.

I don't know why smoke is coming off your nose because I adviced someone based on my own experience.

Una too like quarrel and fight for Nairaland

I was just being plane and I can't see the fire in my words.

Of course I advised the op but just couldn't resist replying you seeing you were surreptitiously bashing other products falsely.

Phones › Re: Help An Iphone Newbie by jedisco(m): 8:46pm On Jan 09, 2013

Francheezy: jed!sc0 n0 mynd am jw0or.....bluet0oth vers!0ns, keep increas!ng latest is v4.0

Guy I don tire for some peeps sef.

Phones › Re: Help An Iphone Newbie by jedisco(m): 6:35pm On Jan 09, 2013

shagarri: what do you want to send via bluetooth....thats so nokia.

Just attach it via mail or whatsapp it or skype it or simply send the other person the necessary link. Bluetooth is an old school technology.

Glad to be of service....i have time to burn today.

Bluetooth?? an old-school technology??

This is the main reason why I stopped visiting the phone section of NL. Like I said in another thread sometime ago, I'm sick and tired of coming to this section to see wannabes who cannot see things in the Nigerian perspective.

I've been to other phone forums online and their local flavour always takes the front seat and they are always quick to remind you that this is an American or British forum as the case may be.
When I come here, all I see is people hating BB or Nokia phones cos they are not popular in the US - a country that does not care about our existence. I call that inferiority complex!

You say sending files via bluetooth is old-school. I would absolutely agree with you if I lived in a country where over 90% of my online connection is done over free and fast wifi and where I also get cheap access to unlimited or large amounts of data at speeds of upto 21Mb/s. But I live in a country with one of the slowest and expensive data speeds (including 3G) in the world, which is subject to frequent blackouts and is just available in few cities.

What's more? This is a country where over 50% of smartphones are BBs mainly because it offers cheaper data rates.

Now that's the Nigerian perspective!
Bluetooth transfer is still alive here just as in most parts of the world.
Here sending files via bluetooth is in over 95% of cases cheaper, faster, easier, more secure and more reliable.

Even speaking of the technicalities, I don't know of any recent smartphone that doesn't have Bluetooth. The fact that only Apple decided to make file transfer very hard doesn't make it obsolete. Infact others have gone on to introduce NFC and Slam which makes transfer much easier.

Also, the fact that on several polls by iOS users done just before the release of the next iOS version, the ability to allow Bluetooth transfer was one of the most wanted features on the next iOS version which has been recently replaced by NFC speaks so much about the self-denial.

@op
Although the iPhone has Bluetooth support, but it doesn't natively allow file transfer via it. Although there are apps to circumvent this, as of the last time I checked its still limited to transfer to another iOS device which has the app. This is pretty much useless in our country.

Celebrities › Re: Bisi Komolafe Didnt Bleed But Was Receiving Blood- Doctor by jedisco(m): 12:10pm On Jan 07, 2013

phemmydiya: We (Nigerian) fail to understand that every death should be diagnosis thoroughly so as to prevent the same occurring. Develop countries use on usual death like this to prepare future cases. Nothing wrong in NMA looking at a cases like this away from general public. RIP Adieu Bidi Komolafe.

Omo what is this?
If english dey hard you lyk this why not use pidgin.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Praying Loudly Vs Praying Quietly: What Do You Guys Think. by jedisco(m): 5:58pm On Jan 03, 2013

Someone used an illustration to explain this to me sometime ago.

He said, "if you go to ask your dad about your school fees do you shout? I guess not. What about you being stung by a scorpion or bitten by a snake, how would you call you dad for help? I know it would be with screams.

Personally, I think scriptures asking us to pray quietly and not blabbing and repeating words hoping to be answered are trying to explain to us that if we are to speak loudly when praying, it should not be done just so other people will hear us, to show our prowess or because we think we would be answered faster. Rather it should come from within and we should be careful not to also unnecessarily disturb others.

If you go though the Bible you would see that alot of great prayers were just cries and weeping unto God with little or no words and yet God answered them.
Sometimes the burden may be so heavy that even words may not suffice.

Phones › Re: Help On Nokia 701 by jedisco(m): 8:30am On Jan 01, 2013

Bumpa d: Pls do u knw hw much it cost

http://affordablephonesng.com/page.php?page=Nokia

http://store.ptvphones.com/

It looks as if it's quite scarce. I remember someone complaining recently that he couldn't find it in Onitsha.

Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 10:39am On Dec 31, 2012

KazaaUpload: Bros I agree with your logic but you missing the big picture.
Although there are probably no statistics on how many of the phones sold in Nigeria are 2nd hand, anecdotal evidence suggests it is a large number. You don't have to be a genius to notice this, and it's why terms such as "UK used" are such a big part of our language.
But more importantly though, is that even if all of the Nigerian and African sales were brand new, RIM would still be struggling. Why?
Well, most of the newer BB phones sold in Africa are low or mid range at best.....and RIM make very low profit margins on selling those. It's okay for the like of Hauwei and some other android makers to sell dirt-cheap phones in developing markets, because these are low-cost companies that produced cheap phones and sell many of them at low margins, they make up for the low margin with high volumes, long term, that wouldn't really work for RIM cos that's not their business model; they have a high cost base.

Also, many of the Android manufacturers benefit from having Google (android) behind them, and Nokia now has Windows.

It makes logical sense to use a BlackBerry in Naija and I agree with yo about the inferiority complex. If you can browse for N1500 per month unlimited, then that's a no-brainier. But RIM would NEVER be able to compete with the bug boys if it continues to struggle in developed markets, where the bigger profits are to be made. Samsung has top end phones (galaxy s3, Note etc), mid range and low end.....phones for each persons income level. It works for then. Apple Iphone only targets the top end and still it sells so many. Where does RIM fit in? He Playbook was budgeted to sell at $500 and now they are selling online for less than $100. Do you think that's sustainable, even if the whole of Nigeria snapped them up?

The thing is that you don't get me at all.

1. Alot of secondhand phones are sold in Nigeria but that does not change the fact that the majority are new ones. If that wasn't the case, you won't be seeing OEMs setting up base here.

2. About the pricing of BB phones, this is what RIMs regional director had to say

"The most common misconception
about what we do here is that we are
mainly selling the cheaper models. The
reality is that there is a hierarchy even
within the BlackBerry owning class and
we sell right the way through the range from $200 to $500 handsets,"
( http://crackberry.com/some-interesting-blackberry-statistics-nigeria )

You may not like it but alot of expensive phones being sold in Nigeria are BBs.
This is also occurring in most of Africa and parts of Asia and South America. If RIM can capture these markets, then it may not need Europe as much as you guys think.
A dollar made from Nigeria is thesame as that made from England.

The fact that Symbian ruled the smartphone world with little or no input from America should always ring a bell.

3. I agree with you that the road up for RIM is a tough one especially if you consider the fact that they single-handedly make both the OS and hardware, but they still have an edge giving the fact that they're doing well in rapidly growing markets unlike all non-samsung and Apple OEMs that are doing badly everywhere.

Like they say, numbers don't lie. RIM is still selling more smarts or like numbers than most others. So why do you think the likes of HTC, Sony and LG would survive but not RIM?

4. Lastly, the playbooks sold for less than $100 are not new but refurbished ones.

Phones › Re: Help On Nokia 701 by jedisco(m): 10:11am On Dec 31, 2012

kio052001: Plz guys dos nokia 701 have its own application diff 4m dat of its s60v3 & 5,
as in wat am asking is will it still install d old applications

No. It has its own applications though some S60V5 apps still work on it. It runs S^3 apps and games.

Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 5:58am On Dec 29, 2012

passion007: If these figures you have cited are truly relevant to RIM, it ratifies the story that the company has been scratching the bottom of the pot...a portent of impending demise, given RIM's history.

Yes they are just like LG, Nokia, HTC, Sony e.t.c are currently doing and Apple and Samsung once did.

In a rapidly evolving market like the smartphone industry, the ability to react to change remains critical for survival and RIM are starting to do that. Do you really think that in say 7 years time Apple and Samsung would still be ruling the smartphone industry?

Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 6:05pm On Dec 28, 2012

adconline: Ur problem is in arithmetic. Naija is less than 5% to sustain RIM.
Apple sold about 100m iPhones last yr while RIM has less than 80million users globally

Your problem is that you lack sound logic i.e. you can't reason properly.

Just show me where I said Nigeria alone can sustain RIM.

I'm sick and tired of coming to NL and seeing ignorant folks ravaged with inferiority complex who cannot analyse issues at it relates to us in Nigeria. They rather think anything happening in America must be replicated here.

Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 3:39pm On Dec 28, 2012

adconline: For a mathematically and analytically challenged like you.
You did not cite any source where u got ur 5mil BB users from.
Economist says Naija has 4mil smartphone users with BB accounting for 50% of the market share. 50% of 4mil is ?
Even with your bandied 5mil BB users in Naija, it still accounts for 6.4% of BB global market, thus, it's very insignificant and cannot SAVE RIM. This ur 5mil figure is not taking into account that most people buy their phones used.. So Naija does not COUNT!

I see your problem is one that has to do with inferiority complex based on falsehood but let me try and put you in place.

1. I never said we have 5 million BB users. I said we have about 5 million smartphone users currently. ( http://www.nairarains.com/2012nigeria-smartphone-users-expected-to-hit-25-million-in-2016/ )

2. As of July 2011 we had about 1.2 million BB users. By February this year, that number had reached 2.4 million. Now that's double in just about 6 months.
( http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/tech/telecoms/25088-blackberry-hits-1million-mark-in-nigeria ) ( http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/tech/telecoms/32167-blackberry-hits-24-million-mark-in-nigeria ).

3. Now take such fast growth rates and add them to other developing nations like SA and Indonesia. The fact is that the markets RIM dominates are the rapidly expanding ones and if that trend continues, they would be here for a very long time. Most of the developed markets are not growing that fast.

4. You might think the figures from such markets don't matter, but as of the last quarter, RIM, HTC, LG, Sony, e.t.c all shipped smartphones between the 6 and 8 million mark.
If the current trend continues, then RIM may survive longer than most of them especially with BB10 arriving.

5. Also I don't know where you get it that most BBs sold are used. Maybe that's your experience but I know alot of people that have bought BBs in the recent past and not even one was secondhand.

6. Lastly maybe you should read this to see what others think of Nigeria and like countries in the role they have played and may play in safeguarding BB. Though they got some numbers wrong, it's still an interesting read because life does not start and end with Europe and America. http://crackberry.com/some-interesting-blackberry-statistics-nigeria

Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 10:58am On Dec 28, 2012

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Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 10:57am On Dec 28, 2012

adconline: Educating an ignorant mind!
BB global users: 78million
Naija BB users: 2 million
Naija BB market share: 2.7%
Half of BB users in Naija bought them used
How can 2.7% sustain RIM when other big markets in EU and America which account for above
60% are not doing OK?
RIM just opened shop in Naija a couple of months ago , if Naija is such a huge market they could have done it several years ago.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21567977-its-devices-are-still-popular-there-africa-wont-save-rim-blackberry-babes

http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/fp-tech-desk/blog.html?b=business.financialpost.com/2012/12/20/rim-results-top-analyst-expectations-as-global-subscriber-base-declines

I don't know how you managed to get everything in your post wrong or maybe you just love pulling numbers from your anus.

1. Nigeria has well over 2 million BB users.
2. Half of BB users here buy them used? Please provide proof for this or throw it into the dustbin where you picked it from.
3.BBs are not to popular in Europe and America but are still very popular in Asia and Africa which is still a very significant market.
4. Following your logic, Apple just launched its first iPhone in China. If China was a huge market, they would have done that several years ago.
FYI China currently has the most smartphone users in the world..

Now you've seen your post was baseless, why not tell us the number of smartphones LG, Motorola, Sony Erickson and the whole lot of non-samsung OEMs sold in the last quarter and you would see that RIM are just as likely as they are to survive.

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Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 9:38am On Dec 28, 2012

adconline: Nigeria doesn't count. Maybe one of the biggest markets for used BB phones not new BBs. RIM makes money from new products. Provide numbers to back up your claim.

Why not provide proof for the trash you put up there. We have a rapidly expanding feature phone and smartphone market just like most of Africa and Asia where BBs are still popular.

I've seen much more people buying new BBs than I've seen buying androids or iPhones.

Let me start by asking you what market you think counts? As of the time symbian was in dominance, they were almost non-existent in the US.

Nigeria has over 5 million smartphone users. Do you know that's about the population of alot of countries in Europe? Have you bothered to ask yourself the number of smartphone users in most European countries?

Even iPhones are almost non-existent in most parts of Asia and just launched in China recently for the very first time.

What I'm trying to say is that although they are important, Europe and America do not constitute the world.

And for starters, why not tell me the number of new phones sold by RIM in the last quarter and compare that to other non-samsung android OEMs. You can also compare their profit margins.

Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 11:36pm On Dec 27, 2012

sushieater: what's not true? oga, get your facts right before you start this RAY CHARLES arguement you want to start..And oh! it's no longer 80 million, it's now 79 million

Why not start by providing proof of what you said that 48 out of the 50 are second hand.

It doesn't take rocket science to see that if BB takes about 50% of our smartphone market, then they should lead in both new and second hand phones bought especially when the enthusiasm for it is very much alive.
I've seen much more people with new BBs than androids in the recent past.

And for your 79 million talk, I hope you saw the 'about' I put and I also hope you know the meaning.

Phones › Re: What Is The Difference Btw Windows Phones And Non-Windows Smart Phones? by jedisco(m): 11:21pm On Dec 27, 2012

Mcdondayan: pls i need your assistance in the choice of phone to buy. mcdondayan@yahoo.com

Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 10:54pm On Dec 27, 2012

sushieater: yeah, but 48% of the 50% are fairly used bb phones from other countries..have you ever thought of what would happen to RIM when those countries we get the phones from are no longer buying bb phones?..Nigerian market share or african market share can never help RIM!!

That's not true. The greater percentage of new phones currently being bought in developing nations like Nigeria and South Africa are BBs. Also they have about 80 million current BIS users and that's not going to disappear easily.

Phones › Re: Blackberry On List Of 10 Brands Likely To Disappear In 2013 by jedisco(m): 9:32pm On Dec 27, 2012

The last time I checked, BBs were still the most popular smartphones in Nigeria with over 50% market share.
It still seems alot of you folks do not understand that variety is the spice of life.

BTW, I don't use one.

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Phones › Re: What Is The Difference Btw Windows Phones And Non-Windows Smart Phones? by jedisco(m): 9:17pm On Dec 27, 2012

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Phones › Re: What Is The Difference Btw Windows Phones And Non-Windows Smart Phones? by jedisco(m): 9:15pm On Dec 27, 2012

Mcdondayan: pls i need your assistance in the choice of phone to buy. mcdondayan@yahoo.com

What options are you considering?

Technology Market › Re: LG Battery TV Or Samsung Satellite TV by jedisco(op): 9:01pm On Dec 27, 2012

ceejay80s: It depends on specifications, just type the tv name and model in google search and read specifications, make sure either tv has usb port, my lcd is the best MATSUI, i didnt buy it brand new, i bought it from a dealer who offloads containers, my matsui tv has inbuilt dvb, dvb is a digital tv service e.g GOtv, STARTIMES tv. I receive these channels without the decoder, its like the tv has inbuit decoder, it also has analog tv and i bought this lcd in january and i have not seen any fault, though i use mine with a 1200 maxtron ups which lasts upto 1hr 30min. So it depends on tv specifications

Please what do those stations show? Are they clear or do you have to do some manipulation (like attaching an antenna to get them clearly?

Technology Market › Re: LG Battery TV Or Samsung Satellite TV by jedisco(op): 8:57pm On Dec 27, 2012

ceejay80s: Buy the one with inbuilt satellite tv. U can always buy a ups that will carry ur tv for 1hr 30min just like the lg inbuilt battery

You have a point here but I just wanted to know which stations it gets and whether it does that clearly. You know some stations are as good as useless.

Technology Market › Re: LG Battery TV Or Samsung Satellite TV by jedisco(op): 8:55pm On Dec 27, 2012

Thanks for the replies

Gaming › Re: Angry Birds Or Temple Run: Which Is More Addictive? by jedisco(m): 4:15pm On Dec 27, 2012

Its temple run for me.
I still don't see anything enjoyable in angry birds. Maybe it's because I've not got myself to play it though I still have it installed.

Technology Market › Re: LG Battery TV Or Samsung Satellite TV by jedisco(op): 1:36pm On Dec 26, 2012

Still waiting...

Technology Market › LG Battery TV Or Samsung Satellite TV by jedisco(op): 11:48am On Dec 25, 2012

Hello peeps, I made this post in the television section but didn't get any reply so I decided to post it here.
If you've used any of them, feel free to comment.

jedisco: Hello

I'm torn between this and the LG battery TV.
Please can someone tell me the kind of channels available on this and also if its reliable i.e gets the necessary channels without effort.

Also on the LG battery TV, how long does the battery last? I know the quoted figure is upto 90 mins, but I need actual everyday usage.
Also, is the battery durable i.e. Let's say after 1 year, does it still last like when it was new?

Please I need answers urgently

Just to add, they are both 32" in size.

TV/Movies › Re: Samsung To Sell TV's With Free Satellite Channels In Africa by jedisco(m): 3:03am On Dec 24, 2012

Hello

I'm torn between this and the LG battery TV.
Please can someone tell me the kind of channels available on this and also if its reliable i.e gets the necessary channels without effort.

Also on the LG battery TV, how long does the battery last? I know the quoted figure is upto 90 mins, but I need actual everyday usage.
Also, is the battery durable i.e. Let's say after 1 year, does it still last like when it was new?

Please I need answers urgently

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