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I love this. But what about durability?

Huawei is a well known company with a good reputation their phones are very good and unlike tecno they are recognised worldwide.

How about this one.
Huawei 4Afrika
- Display: 4.0-inch, 800 x 480 resolution
LCD
- Processor: dual-core, 1.2GHz
- RAM: 512MB of RAM
- Weight: 130g
- Memory: 4GB internal memory with
microSD card slot
- Camera: 5 megapixel camera with 720p
video recording and a front facing VGA
camera
- Battery: 1,950 mAh
- Miscellaneous: Custom apps designed
by local African developers for Africa
- Price: $150 (around N24,000, all things
being equal)

@Tunjitsu thank you very much for your contribution on this topic that's exactly my point. We all buy the N3 because of the attractive price so if TECNO now decided to start producing phone for as high as 30k then I'd rather go for a mid range phone from companies like Nokia, Samsung, Sony or LG in that price range.

cyrexx: Time will tell.

Yeah you're right but considering the cheap price of lumia 520 for just 28k it may be possible.

Tecno N7 killer!!!

MasterPDON: Adreno 305?? You sure say na $184??

check gsmarena.com for more details I'm waiting for this one come March this year that's a few weeks away. At 28k this lumia 520 may outsell tecno N7.

Another real competitor to N7 Lumia 520 was annaunced today by Nokia the phone is as cheap as the N7 with similar specs and price just 184$ about 28k in naira. tecno should increase the RAM of N7 or atleast review the price otherwise..... the specs at a glance. 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100 - RM-914
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 -
RM-915 SIM Micro-SIM Announced 2013, February Status Coming soon. 2013, March DISPLAY Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen,
16M colors Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches (~233
ppi pixel density) Multitouch Yes Protection Scratch-resistant glass MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 64 GB Internal 8 GB, 512 MB RAM DATA GPRS Class B EDGE Class B Speed HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76
Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual band Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP USB Yes, microUSB v2.0 CAMERA Primary 5 MP, Secondary No FEATURES OS Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Chipset Qualcomm MSM8227 CPU Dual-core 1 GHz GPU Adreno 305.

91mb now and counting......

[quote author=Osita_inklord]My guy, ure on point! These top brand fone manufacturers r making SUCKERS OUT OF THEIR BUYERS! It costs $100 to make an iphone 4 and its sold @ $700+!!!! Madness! Tecno makers mustve seen this calamity when they started working at LG. (fact) they resigned and started their charity work on making phones for the not so filthy rich nigerian youths. The N7 is unparraleld! i handled it @ slot and mahn was it fluid! Search fordual core fone prices and knw wassup! Dual core devices are certified monsters! LG L5 na toy compared to N7. The xperias and whatnot are facking overpriced![/quote]interesting, tecno n7 is selling at 200$ that's 30k so if I phone 4 with all its expensive aluminium hardware cost apple 100$ to produce how much do you think it will cost tecno to produce N7 with its cheap plastic hardware? Maybe 20$ or 30$. Anyway kudos to tecno for making it easier for us to own a smartphone.

Just been credited with 10mb.

MasterPDON: Yeah, we can't compare those phones with the n7...so also, we can't compare the prices too. WTF........do you know how much lumia 620 is?? And hey, optimus l5 is nowhere close to n7!

lumia 620 cost 250$ that's roughly 38k in Nigeria though our retailers may ask 40k to 50k and tell me why do you think N7 is better than optimus l5 apart from the dual core processor.

still waiting for my 5mb but am still dialing the code meanwhile nothing was deducted from my account.

luluosas: If I praised Glo here now, even as I am using Airtel to browse, some people will be calling me Glo AGENT. But, what has my position of saying what I am experiencing got to do with being a Glo Agent? However, I must speak no matter what you will say.
Airtel, you better withdraw your so called 3.5G network because, it is a big disgrace to be surfing on Glo 2G network flawlessly, while your so called 3.5G network is damned fuc.ked up. If only Glo has been crediting my G-BAM line with the 5MB daily bonus, I wouldn't have wasted my N1,200 naira on you yesterday. Twitter is not even loading up for me. What hellish is this? I will try on the phone. Big shit company. Location is Yola.

same here in Jos.

Guys don't get me wrong am not anti - tecno in fact am using N3 now, and I know N7 is a fantastic phone but my point here is the price is a bit expensive compared to that of more qualitative brands like the Xperia U and you know very well that a Sony phone is no match to a tecno phone. So I think tecno should stick to their strategies of producing affordable phones to Nigerians. a 4.0 inches screen with 1GB ram for around 15k to 20k wouldn't be a idea.

Blah blah there is Xperia U that will beat N7 at that price except for the screen size. See the specs. 2G Network
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network
HSDPA 900 / 2100 - ST25i
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - ST25a
SIM
Mini-SIM
Announced
2012, February
Status
Available. Released 2012, May
BODY
Dimensions
112 x 54 x 12 mm (4.41 x 2.13 x 0.47 in)
Weight
110 g (3.88 oz)
DISPLAY
Type
TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size
480 x 854 pixels, 3.5 inches (~280 ppi
pixel density)
Multitouch
Yes, up to 4 fingers
Protection
Scratch-resistant glass
- Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine
- Timescape UI
SOUND
Alert types
Vibration; MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker
Yes
3.5mm jack
Yes
- Sony 3D surround sound audio
technology
MEMORY
Card slot
No
Internal
8 GB (4 GB user available), 512 MB RAM
DATA
GPRS
Up to 107 kbps
EDGE
Up to 296 kbps
Speed
HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
WLAN
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, DLNA
Bluetooth
Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
USB
Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go
CAMERA
Primary
5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED
flash, check quality
Features
Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile
detection, 3D sweep panorama, image
stabilization
Video
Yes, 720p@30fps, video light, check
quality
Secondary
Yes, VGA
FEATURES
OS
Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread),
upgradable to v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Chipset
NovaThor U8500
CPU
Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU
Mali-400
Sensors
Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging
SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM,
Push Email
Browser
HTML5, Adobe Flash. The phone cost just 32k at slot.

Chaiii

Masco2006: Hello guys do u know that u use tecno n3 to watch mtn mobile tv i.e dstv

explain better.

sam4xadams: i'v read all this post but what i can confirm is that bigtt is sayin the truth but the bis glo for now only work on techno phones. Yes it work on techno phone coz the glo technology can't picture techno phone imei properly to Ban the 3g data. So only one device work for now: techno android phone.

wrong, it is not connecting on my Tecno N3 but when I change to gloflat the signal will appear immediately and start browsing.

bigtt76: Been following with rapt attention. I must commend Lulosas but at the same time admonish him and other for making the 'cheat' stuff sometin like its a right to have. No that is wrong. I just saw the tweet ...telling the Glo guys you actually use it for Galaxy Phone ...like seriously? Are you trying to expose what they already know and get them sacked? You think they don't have boy and girl friends they share such with to woo them? In as much as its working on other phones doesn't make it your right. Abroad its called tethering and most providers charge you extra for such service or they block it out rightly. Come to think of it ....if Glo can prevent you putting more than one email account on some package, do you think it would be difficult for them to block BIS use on none BB fones? very simple to do and configure. All the need to do is programme their SIM card to read your phone's PIN and send to the system before you can be enabled.

Another instance is you think they are foolish, you subscribe to BIS 3G no traffic is going in or out of your email server profile on BB and BBM yet your traffic keeps getting consumed with high downloads through non-BB browsers? Haba.

To all those poking fun ...I say don't worry it shall be rectified. What happened was during that rain early monday morning, Glo's VPN connection to Blackberry Server and Internet Backbone were affected by the storm resulting in lack of 3G signals or 2G in some places. If truly they blocked the APN blackberry.net ....you will see the 3G sign on your device but it won't browse. But right now, we are not seeing it which means the 3G transmitters is down. it comes off and on.

It would be very difficult for the network to change the BB APN without recourse to Blackberry Engineers input. All mobile Networks connect to the central BB Server in the UK using their GPRS (If you check your Host Register on BB you will see it populated 620 GPRS bla bla ....) as the VPN mode. They can only block you tethering by preventing more than one MAC address per connection on their server. Changing the APN involves a lot of routing locally. Airtel succeeded because they first of all route all BB traffic through their local data network to their BB VPN server. so you first connect to their Data network before going to the BB network.

Anyway, lets keep our fingers crossed till weekend. Its being resolved in phase and most importantly let us desist from telling the Glo people openly what we are doing else they would nip it out. Though they are getting the money which is important, credibility of the BB service in Nigeria can be compromised using this cheap way of providing BB service to end users thereby resulting in RIM disconnecting them all.

One love guys. Please don't try to question my source or expertise on all this ....ok? Pls.

I have the 3G sign on my phone yet it is not browsing.

Guys let's just move on glo has blocked us that's the fact. Thanks for this thread it really was wonderful I've subscribe to airtel

You are entitled to your opinion dude.

weezii: i just checked my status right now, its now active but i cant browse. I have their 3.5g network but yet cannot connect with my phone neither can i do so with my modem using the APN blackberry.net. Guess they have disabled it. My subscription is wasting right now *sadface*

It is still working perfectly go to your phone Settings and enable 3G only or gsm only do not select auto cos i think that's were the problem is. when the phone is set on auto network it will keep switching between 3G and edge thus making it hard to connect to the internet. Try it maybe it will work for you that's how i solve the problem on my Android phone.

davidoisamoje: how did u go about ur internal memory of d phone pls need to know God bless

I have move all my movable apps to SD card and set it as my prefered storage, also i keep only important apps on my phone and i backup all those that i do not use often using android task manager (downloaded from playstore) then uninstall them. I never have issue of low memory on my phone.

edrys: Can one really enjoy this Techno n3 without rooting and hw accessible are the apps, are they totally free? Pls answer needed ASAP. Thanks.

Mine is not rooted yet and no plan to root it either but i'm enjoying it. i have install many apps and games on it like temple run, fruit ninja, transformers, Raging thunder etc and most importantly sybla tv with this app i can watch live football matches on my N3.

Guy go buy N3 and subscribe to glo somonth or airtel bis plan both costs 1200 naira each and enjoy the wonders of android.

mhozzis: pls a quick question. Since downloadin from google play automatically installs apps on internal memory. How do u download games of 1gig + from play store wen d phone has just 785mb as internal memory.

you can change that in the settings atleast in some phones. like Tecno D3 whether rooted or not it will automatically installed your app on SD card but I don't know whether N7 can do that.

lakefist: no way! phone without 3G @ dis age? mo matter how sweet it is i will never go for it.using N3 and its the fastest wen browsing and downloading...people enjoy playing games on N3 but am not a game freak all i do i surf.d choice is urs

yeah you're right if you want fast internet go for N3.

Rexyl: It is just interesting here but watching tv programs on data plan that is not unlimited, I wonder how often and how much you will recharg and subscribe for I thought that could imply heavy data consumption. Or you are able to cut corner!

No not at all, I subscribe to the weekly plan which has 700mb data cap I watch nigeria's match against burkina faso with about 300mb of data. the remaining 400mb will be enough for me throughout the week for my facebook and twitter that's all.

luluosas: Wow! That means you streamed it via foreign channel as no Nigerian station aired it.

I use sybla tv for android the app is very cool it has over 120 channels which you can watch football, movies, news and lots more.

I missed an important fearture in Uc browser for Android, that is i can't syncronise my bookmarks anymore like i used to on java version. could there be any solution to this?

I have watch yesterday's match between nigeria and burkina faso on my phone. thanx to the glo cheap data plan.