augster:
What are we winning

recognition

NCP:



Or xvldeos.com

pornhub actually offered to buy vine

https://www.cnet.com/news/pornhub-offers-to-buy-vine-6-seconds-twitter-jack-dorsey/

directonpc:
I can't see any nominations.

Type your own nominations

Whizpeter:


That would be a bias criteria, and you know it...

Take a look at my profile for example, Car Talk is my first most active section, followed by Phones...

But active phonelanders like you would also testify that I'm one of the most active members in this section, so what happens to people like me? You just relegate us to the background even though we're very active

Okay. First or second but not third. Anyone that has phones in third means he value 2 sections above phone.

TeeYMartinz:
hey guys pls advice a frnd of mine, he just want to buy a bb z10 and he wants to find out if d phone can also download the apps dat android has since d bbz10 is running on android.and also want to know d disadvantages, if any

z10 does not run android, but you can install android apps on it

sexybbstar:


Whatsapp,music,calendar,calculator,settings,android settings, lenovo,lenovo launcher.

wow. thats a whole lot.

try updating your phone
or flashing it again.

you can just force stop and disable any of he apps there if they had alternatives but obviously most dont.

above all, just close your eyes and buy a new phone.

ammyluv2002:
I love this thread!
Making my list

Twizzy30:
Al

2kaybiel:
must not be left out of this thread

Whizpeter:
I'm here... Following and would be back with my list...
Dear OP, anybody that follows up to 5 or more topics on phone section would have 'Phones' listed on his most active section in less than three days, so I'm not sure if that criteria would work...!

where are your nominations?!

Whizpeter:
I'm here... Following and would be back with my list...


Dear OP, anybody that follows up to 5 or more topics on phone section would have 'Phones' listed on his most active section in less than three days, so I'm not sure if that criteria would work...!

phones as the first active section

sexybbstar:



Me I no understand all this Ur grammar o,I just know the phone is always writing this has stopped,dat has stopped, even after flashing it.the problem still remains the same.Help me out

list the apps names

toluwanimi07:
understand bawo
are u fighting with misstechy ni

Nah! I was rather just joking with her

DrayZee:
Majority of the human population becoming weaker by the minute. So just holding your phone is now big enough a problem to warrant the purchase of this contraption.

We might as well have no hands

toluwanimi07:
of course bruh.... Its for every1

Lol.... You won't understand

sexybbstar:


Yes

Are they apps that have 3rd party alternative??

Welcome to the first ever Nairaland Phone Section Awards! NAPSA!! Please relax and to be in a hurry to leave this tread. This is a consumer choice based awards So I need you all the consumers to make sure you read carefully and make meaningful contributions. I need your help and together we can do this!!
Talk about it on every tread using #NAPSA2016
Also remember to tag someone on this tread
I also humbly ask for the assistance of the moderators

ABOUT
This awards is to recognize outstanding performances my companies and personalities that deal in the mobile phone world or are closely related to phones. The awards is here to stay. The nominees and winners would be chosen by the wonderful members of nairaland with majority from those who follow and contribute to the phone section.

CATEGORIES

001. SMARTPHONE OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to the best smartphones that has the most complete features, completely high-end, with top-notch quality and performance in every area of the phone for the whole year 2016.

002. CAMERA SMARTPHONE OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to smartphones that has been excellent in taking pictures! Top of it's class camera quality and image processing.

003. SMARTPHONE DESIGN OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to the smartphones that has astonishing design at sight and amazing feel when held.

004. VALUE FOR MONEY SMARTPHONE OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to smartphones that offer way more than the price at which they are sold for.

005. AFFORDABLE PHONE OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to the best mobile phones below the price of N30,000.

011. SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to the smartphone operating system which has the best features and well optimized to work for it's smartphone.

021. PHONE COMPANY OF THE YEAR
The category belongs to mobile phone maker who has contributed most in both quality and quality to the industry this year.

022. PHONE RETAILER OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to stores both online and physical who offers the widest range of smartphones with best services in aspect to retail.

012. SMARTPHONE APP OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to that smartphone app or game that is widely used with great interface and interesting features.

006. NON-SMARTPHONE SMART DEVICE OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to the tablets, smartwatch, PC, smart TV and IOT devices that has been outstanding in design and performance this year.

023. TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to the telecommunications company that has the best quality of services, consumer friendly product and customer care.

031. TECH BLOGGER OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to bloggers that have been consistent, own or contribute to an exclusive technology blog, and has offered the best articles on phones and related product through out the year.

013. PHONE SECTION TOPIC OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to the best topic to ever from phone section this year.

032. PHONE SECTION PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
This category belongs to the most outstanding person, made the most important contributions, and popular among users of the section.

HOW TO NOMINATE/VOTE
Simply type the category code, then your nomination by the side.
Example:
001 Apple iPhone 5
002 Nokia Lumia 1020
011 Meego OS
And so on…


RULES!
Nomination and voting goes together. Like I said it is a consumer choice awards. So unlike professional awards, you guys (the consumer) get to nominate each product, company or person you feel or knows deserve to win each category. Each nomination would count as a vote therefore The highest nominated device wins at it category. The category codes are numbered according to the type of the category, do not get confused by it.
Device nominated must be devices announced or released in 2016 i.e all categories with the "00" initials code. Every other category are companies or person that gave it their best in 2016, and product that was widely used and helpful In 2016. PHONE SECTION TOPIC OF THE YEAR must be a 2016 topic also.
Nomination is open to all nairaland members with accounts older than November 30th. This is excluding the PHONE SECTION PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR, only members with "phone" as the first or second section of their active sections on their profile is allowed to nominate here.
TECH BLOGGER OF THE YEAR goes to the blogger(a person) not the blog. Therefore write the person name and the blog in brackets.
When nominating Android as SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE YEAR please Indicate In brackets what custom skin or custom version your are nominating, if you can't tell, just type the name of the phone.
Nominations having only one specific brand mentioned all through would not be counted.
please read carefully because nominations against the rules won't be counted.
Nomination ends on 11:59pm Sunday, 18th of December 2016.
Winners would be announced on Wednesday, 21st of December 2016.


#NAPSA2016 Don't forget to SHARE!!

MissTechy:
Given how Nairaland has played a big role in the growth of MissTechy (Thank you Nairaland and Seun). I am throwing this open here. Samsung is having a campaign this month and I've been privileged to be a part of it. It is called #BestMomentsNG campaign and I'd be giving out Samsung device to the winner(s). To qualify all you have to do is make a video on Instagram telling us about your BestMoments in 2016. Use the hashtag #BestMoments Ng and tag me (@misstechy) and Samsung (@SamsungMobileNg). The winners will be announced on the 22nd and the phone given away on the 29th.

You can check my Instagram page or look at the images below for more info.

What do you think?

P.S. The picture below is not my real face oh. X_X

can i enter?

sexybbstar:
My lenovo A708t behaved funny last two weeks by showing "the lenovo launcher has stopped" and stuffs like "the camera has stopped","the calender has stopped".Then it switched off by itself and never came up again.I flashed it and it worked but the second day,the same "stop stop" things started but its not switching off this time around. Please, what's wrong with it?Is there any permanent solution to it.Thanks!

android problems.

these apps that unfortunatly stopped, are you using them?

5. Nokia Lumia 730

they should have sold vine to pornhub

2Mekus:


Fine piece by all standard. Can I publish it in our Newspaper for a greater impact?

alright. but be sure to review it cos i made a few typo errors.

Decryptor:


I have a friend who resides i Dubai and we chat via Whatsapp...i wonder how that is possible when it has been banned there or is Dubai no longer under the UAE?

vpn

babooshka:
u r very correct. D dude also said that they av to buy fuel 2 power their facilities, and I ask how is dat d problem of d masses. Is it not d FG dats meant 2 give us a constant power supply after all d heavy taxes we pay. R we now supposed 2 subsidise 4 these companies? We also buy d same fuel 4 our homes and businesses at d same exorbitant rates, who helps us out? D dude must av been bribed, dats y he's so aggressively pursuing an increase, or his company is one of d upstarts, na so naija things dey. They should remove him, he obviously no longer represents us.

exacly what i tought. but i did not add it to my article so i wont be too foward

titus3:
OP I hail o. Very well written piece.

As much as we know these telcos and the NCC tend to say a lot of unreasonable things, but did MTN’s CEO actually say the FG should ban Whatsapp and Viber?

I have read all the newspaper reports, and I also stumbled on the MTN statement posted on their LinkedIn page (see link below)
(https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6212708488792010752?pathWildcard=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6212708488792010752&actorCompanyId=2594006&trk=cp-notifications-click-on-like).

I might be wrong, but their CEO did not say that they should ban Whatsapp and Viber. He only said that those businesses are affecting telco’s profits. Unlike the last time, Channels TV didn’t even show a video of him saying anything as such. So is it that he was misquoted by the newspapers?

Please, replies needed

he did not outrightly say "ban whatsapp" he said "take action like the one taken in UAE" which is UAE banned whatsapp and others.

greenhulk:


Yes apple ate their own sh#t by making iphones with bigger screen, but it is arguable that the man that kicked against it is no more, though I'm pretty sure apple wouldn't be making only 4 inch iphones of he was still alive.

That aside, samsung can still bring their A game by making galaxy s8 without headphone jack. Apple made theirs by selling wireless headphones, samsung can make theirs by selling wired headphones. They will utilize the USB type c DAC and make wired headphones with display to show caller id without the need to bring out the phone. It can also show information about music playing on the headphone's display.

Interesting.....

HanXolo:

what device sir

Lumia 730

So yesterday I read about all NCC had to say on the issue of introducing a price floor. And I have some comments to make

"The regulatory commission said that it feared that the price war could eventually lead to a monopoly in the telecom industry that would force small operators to shut down.
It said that monopoly in the telecom sector could also push the country back to the days of NITEL to the detriment of small operators in the sector.
The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Dambatta stated this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Communications."

Well, Professor Dambatta kept mentioning NITEL in his statement, which I believe is a wrong example to make reference to because "in the days of NITEL" there was just one telecommunications company which is NITEL, no competitors, no rivals, no other company offering telecommunications services, and NITEL was owned by the Nigerian Government. But right now we have so many private telecommunications companies, and out of these many, we have four(4) major companies not one. Therefore I do not see how this might lead to monopoly, I don't think the four major telecommunications companies we have would allow one pass the other, which is not equal to monopoly. Unless Professor Dambatta has a different definition of monopoly that is not - (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.

Then on the aspect of forcing smaller telecommunications companies to close or shut down. First I would start with what one of my friend said. He believes in the statement - "if you can't beat them, join them". He believes that if smaller or new entry telecommunications companies can't find a way to survive in the market, then they should merge with the bigger companies to provide better services. I once met Audu Maikori in an event and he made emphasis of the need for partnership and collaboration. He said everybody wants to be the head and alone, when if we collaborate, we could achieve greater things. What if we don’t need eight telecommunications companies, what if we just need working four? If these companies could merge they could give us that! Better services, less worries.

I on the other hand thinks that if any company should shut down, it is completely their fault and not the fault of major telecommunications companies. This is not the first time we have seen companies shut down due to pressure from the Market, but to blame a bigger company is wrong. A company can only shut down due to its own mistakes or wrong tactics/market strategy, that is if it had one. For a startup company, the board/team/management are suppose to have a break through plan, enough capital and focus to become as big as any other company in the market. I believe non of these startup telecommunications in Nigeria have one and are now seeking the help of the government to survive? This scenario is like asking a teacher to intentionally fail a student so you who did not read can be on the same level with the brilliant student. Of course it is possible that these companies might have tried their best to gain market share, but Etisalat Nigeria tried to do the same thing in 2008, they slashed all the prices each telecommunications was offering at that time and sold out sim card almost free, even existing telecommunications giants could not keep up, it was a decision, strategy and sacrifice they had to make that got them to where they are today. Ironically Etisalat Nigeria now offers the most expensive service amongst the four telecommunications, but has already built their brand well enough to have a deserving part of the market. Which of these startup companies are able to do this? NON! So I believe they should go back and re-strategize instead of depending on the government introduce a price floor limiting the major operators.

I am still not in support in introducing a price floor. If NCC fills there is still a need for it, the best they can do is stop these big companies from taking their prices below what they offer right now. I wonder if NCC is supposed protect these small companies or we the consumers? Because their actions of protecting these companies is at our own expense. I look at all NCC reasons as excuse including the one they stated that consumers asked for the price floor to be introduced, when clearly there is a petition which five thousand people have signed against it. It makes me feel there are hidden stories, agenda and personal gains to all of this. Price flooring is suppose to be in the advatage of the consumer, Plus the idea of price floor has not had a good reputation in countries that it was implemented. "A price floor hurts society more than it helps. It may help farmers or the few workers that get to work for minimum wage, but it only helps those people by hurting everyone else" according to http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/micro_price-floor.php . In this case it helps a few CEO's and hurts the general public. This cannot be acceptable.

That is all I have to say to NCC.

In addition to this post, I also have a comment to make on The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of MTN Nigeria, Mr. Ferdinand Moolman statement for the federal government to ban WhatsApp and other social services that offer call and text.

“the depletion of operator revenues by unlicensed providers of “over-the-top” telecoms services who do not have any physical presence; nor pay any taxes; nor make any significant contribution to employment or other socio-economic objectives of government in Nigeria.”

Mentioning WhatsApp, Viber and the likes, the MTN boss pointed out that these companies were eroding gains of Nigeria’s telecom companies and asked Nigeria to take action like the United Arab Emirates did.


All I see in this man statement is GREED! I think what he said is completely absurd. What he actually meant by this statement is that he is not making as much money as he used to because of WhatsApp and others, and therefore using the excuse of non physical presence, and no taxes etc to buy out the government. This is purley based on selfish interest. This scenario is like asking the government to ban cars because you as a bicycle seller don’t make much money anymore, and stating excuses like cars produce harmful gases to the environment just to win the heart of the government. Someone should tell this man that TECHNOLOGY HAS PROGRESSED!!! If he is pained by the production of cars, he should probably dump bicycles and start producing cars too. Maybe turn MTN into an APP making company or buy WhatsApp or Viber. You can't hold back technology because you don't make enough money. In fact this means you care about money more than you care about technology, and as the CEO of MTN? that is just too sad. You sir are supposed to be in a bank! Not an IT company. Then you went ahead to say like united Arab emirates? How long would this country continue to copy other countries simply because they are more developed? We should be able to decide which steps we take and which we don't. We should only look out for developed countries for solutions to major problems we encounter like how to come out of recession. Not follow every foot step and implement something simply because it was done in UAE or USA or Europe. Please stop! Finally saying that these apps do not make any significant contribution to employment or other socio-economic objectives of government in Nigeria is wrong. Directly it might not, but indirectly it does in every way. To point out a few, making call over WhatsApp is relatively less expensive than traditional phone call. Yes it means less money for you (even if you make money from data) but it means we as citizen would be able to save more on phone calls which would make us have more money to improve our standard of living and businesses which would have positive impact on the economy. Taking for example a typical venture owner who spend a lot on phone calls would save alot if he has to buy only data. On a long run, that savings from phone calls could be used to expand his venture which would lead to more people being employed and growth on the nation economy which is in contrary to Mr. Ferdinand statement. So please don’t think of it. Neither should the Nigerian Government consider it unless again it in support of a company over it's citizens.

That is all I have to say. I am in no way an expert and therefore all I've written here is in my opinion. Please feel free to contact me in any area you feel I am wrong.

dont experience over heating on my device.
i dont find any fault with microsoft except slowness to push updates

Inside:
Trash.

fan alert!

lalasticlala you know this is one of my nicest topics that never got to fp.
misstechy you should check out this article too. written by me

toluwanimi07:
what other word can be used bro??

i dont know. i like alot of artist but a fan of MI. i like misstechy and her blog but not fan yet.

Mustiboy:
is there a solution, pls?

i am not a technician. its important you find a really expirenced one

Mustiboy:
is there a solution, pls?

i am not a technician. its important you find a really expirenced one

Mustiboy:
it's a tecno y6. I thought it was d battery and I bought a new one but the problem persisted. now, the charging port has been replaced by an engineer but it's still the same. but what I noticed is that it gets hot whenever the charger is inserted. I've tried different original chargers but it's still the same.
the phone can be plugged for 5hrs and will just add about 3%. what's d cause? and what's the solution?
your help is needed guys

it is a problem from the board/panel