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If we’re being real, Nigerians dey love familiar brands. When it comes to phones, na TECNO, Infinix, iPhone and Samsung wey dey reign.

But worldwide, other brands dey trend big time.... like realme, Oppo, Vivo. For example, realme dey ship millions of units every year in Asia and Europe. Same specs wey Redmi dey offer, realme dey give too, sometimes even cheaper.

So the question be:

Why we dey always stick to only the popular brands?

Na lack of awareness?

Na fear of “unknown” brands?

Or na just say we no wan take risk?


Who here don try one of these “newer” brands before? Share your experience make we reason am.

You nor expect me to buy phone with my hard earn money,just little fault like charging port, I go pack the phone one side due to lack of spare parts.
Some products nor get second hand value.
Not only applicable to phones and electronics alone.

Many consumers in Nigeria prefer sticking with brands they know because trying a new one involves risk. The risk isn’t just financial, it can also be about durability, after-sales support, spare parts, reliability. If a phone breaks and you’re using a well-known brand, there is more confidence someone can fix it, or parts are available. And again known brands are more likely to have service centres, spare part availability, good warranty support. If you buy a less known brand, even if the phone works well initially, repair or maintenance might be hard or expensive.

I only try new things with recommendations

For the phone, I have to see someone using it for a while before trying

A better review and compelling advertisement will go a long way too

aquarius15febb:
If we’re being real, Nigerians dey love familiar brands. When it comes to phones, na TECNO, Infinix, iPhone and Samsung wey dey reign.

But worldwide, other brands dey trend big time.... like realme, Oppo, Vivo. For example, realme dey ship millions of units every year in Asia and Europe. Same specs wey Redmi dey offer, realme dey give too, sometimes even cheaper.

So the question be:

Why we dey always stick to only the popular brands?

Na lack of awareness?

Na fear of “unknown” brands?

Or na just say we no wan take risk?


Who here don try one of these “newer” brands before? Share your experience make we reason am.

The Issue is not about buying but how will you replace a faulty part... I get my Realme X around 2019 around 2022 from Aliexpress .it has a faulty screen since then I can't get a screen for it the one I'm seeing on Aliexpress is around 80k which I would rather add money with and buy another one

I'm looking forward to get myself either Honor X9C or Oneplus 10 or higher verysoon sha

I got myself an umidigi a3pro in 2018, screen broke in 2019, there was no screen in the whole of Lagos only on AliExpress,
Ok I compose buy umidigi a5pro in 2019 same year it fell inside water screen and battery got spoilt,googled the cost on AliExpress it was around 70, went back to my a3pro screen was 65k, omo naso I throway the two phones,
Bought low budget iPhone and one infinix, I don change their screen countless times,

So yeah buying a new brand for me henceforth is a no no

Who popularity help, to get a quality smartphone from a popular brand now is far more expensive than getting quality smartphone from a new brand

ote author=aquarius15febb post=136947540]If we’re being real, Nigerians dey love familiar brands. When it comes to phones, na TECNO, Infinix, iPhone and Samsung wey dey reign.

But worldwide, other brands dey trend big time.... like realme, Oppo, Vivo. For example, realme dey ship millions of units every year in Asia and Europe. Same specs wey Redmi dey offer, realme dey give too, sometimes even cheaper.

So the question be:

Why we dey always stick to only the popular brands?

Na lack of awareness?

Na fear of “unknown” brands?

Or na just say we no wan take risk?


Who here don try one of these “newer” brands before? Share your experience make we reason am.[/quote]

Unspeakablejj22:
Who popularity help, to get a quality smartphone from a popular brand now is far more expensive than getting quality smartphone from a new brand

ote author=aquarius15febb post=136947540]If we’re being real, Nigerians dey love familiar brands. When it comes to phones, na TECNO, Infinix, iPhone and Samsung wey dey reign.

But worldwide, other brands dey trend big time.... like realme, Oppo, Vivo. For example, realme dey ship millions of units every year in Asia and Europe. Same specs wey Redmi dey offer, realme dey give too, sometimes even cheaper.

So the question be:

Why we dey always stick to only the popular brands?

Na lack of awareness?

Na fear of “unknown” brands?

Or na just say we no wan take risk?


Who here don try one of these “newer” brands before? Share your experience make we reason am.

you might disregard popularity but you can't undermine the safety it gives especially when it comes to finding parts for repair, na there the wahala dey for those new brands so!

These are the issues and it enough to decide not to try new brands again, I understand you man

PapaNnamdi:
I got myself an umidigi a3pro in 2018, screen broke in 2019, there was no screen in the whole of Lagos only on AliExpress,
Ok I compose buy umidigi a5pro in 2019 same year it fell inside water screen and battery got spoilt,googled the cost on AliExpress it was around 70, went back to my a3pro screen was 65k, omo naso I throway the two phones,
Bought low budget iPhone and one infinix, I don change their screen countless times,

So yeah buying a new brand for me henceforth is a no no

Make we no lie, fear dey. But if warranty and good service dey, I fit try any brand. A colleague of mine even bought a realmeC61 phone recently, and I no go lie the brand really dey try with the kind of phones dem dey produce and the features wey dem pack inside.

Honestly, once there’s a good warranty and reliable customer support, I don’t mind trying new brands. realme has really impressed me lately.

If there's no proper awareness for growing brands, I don't think Nigerians will trust to use them,

Àwon realme adverts

Unspeakablejj22:
Who popularity help, to get a quality smartphone from a popular brand now is far more expensive than getting quality smartphone from a new brand

ote author=aquarius15febb post=136947540]If we’re being real, Nigerians dey love familiar brands. When it comes to phones, na TECNO, Infinix, iPhone and Samsung wey dey reign.

But worldwide, other brands dey trend big time.... like realme, Oppo, Vivo. For example, realme dey ship millions of units every year in Asia and Europe. Same specs wey Redmi dey offer, realme dey give too, sometimes even cheaper.

So the question be:

Why we dey always stick to only the popular brands?

Na lack of awareness?

Na fear of “unknown” brands?

Or na just say we no wan take risk?


Who here don try one of these “newer” brands before? Share your experience make we reason am.

I have used 3 different Oppo phones for the past 5 years and I can tell you for free that they are very reliable. Don't be afraid to get any

What I hate about this phones is their cameras. iPhone 6 that's long before all these phones came out still have a better cam. Check all these phones you listed have wack cameras. The best android phones so far is Samsung/Google pixel and HTC which was discontinued. The rest is wack with their wack cameras.

Na so I mumu go try Acer phone about five years ago, e no reach two weeks, the phone fall from my hand and the screen spoil. Till now I never see am change.

PapaNnamdi:
I got myself an umidigi a3pro in 2018, screen broke in 2019, there was no screen in the whole of Lagos only on AliExpress,
Ok I compose buy umidigi a5pro in 2019 same year it fell inside water screen and battery got spoilt,googled the cost on AliExpress it was around 70, went back to my a3pro screen was 65k, omo naso I throway the two phones,
Bought low budget iPhone and one infinix, I don change their screen countless times,

So yeah buying a new brand for me henceforth is a no no

The real issue here is you're a poor handler of mobile phones. I've used three Umidigi phones since 2019, the new one always meets the old one functioning properly without repairs.

Simple. The devil you know syndrome. We stick to what we are familiar with. Small thing go do your phone people will start blaming you like they did one bros that "you see Infinix you go buy umidigi a3pro, who send you"

ReacherSaidNoth:
The real issue here is you're a poor handler of mobile phones. I've used three Umidigi phones since 2019, the new one always meets the old one functioning properly without repairs.

I didn't deny it,

Na because of the stress of finding where to fix your phone when it gets spoiled
Normal normal, the ones wey we dey use na dem our people sabi fix

aquarius15febb:
If we’re being real, Nigerians dey love familiar brands. When it comes to phones, na TECNO, Infinix, iPhone and Samsung wey dey reign.

But worldwide, other brands dey trend big time.... like realme, Oppo, Vivo. For example, realme dey ship millions of units every year in Asia and Europe. Same specs wey Redmi dey offer, realme dey give too, sometimes even cheaper.

So the question be:

Why we dey always stick to only the popular brands?

Na lack of awareness?

Na fear of “unknown” brands?

Or na just say we no wan take risk?


Who here don try one of these “newer” brands before? Share your experience make we reason am.

I think it’s more of an after sales thing; the availability of spare parts and the rest.
Same goes for cars, Nigerians would rather go for the common brands;Honda, Toyota,Mercedes Benz, just to name a few….because the parts are readily available most of the time.
There are other car brands like the Citroens,Lotus,Seat,Daihatsu and so much more but their replacement parts are not as readily available.















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Most people just stick to what they know. Once they’ve used a certain brand for years, they don’t want to risk their money on something unfamiliar, even if it’s better.

Trust is everything in this market. New brands need time, local reviews, and visible service centers before Nigerians start believing in them.

Carazon:
Na so I mumu go try Acer phone about five years ago, e no reach two weeks, the phone fall from my hand and the screen spoil. Till now I never see am change.

Oh Chim 💔😂😂😂

Funny thing is, many of these “new” brands now offer better specs for less money but until people around you use it first, you won’t want to be the test subject.

aquarius15febb:
If we’re being real, Nigerians dey love familiar brands. When it comes to phones, na TECNO, Infinix, iPhone and Samsung wey dey reign.

But worldwide, other brands dey trend big time.... like realme, Oppo, Vivo. For example, realme dey ship millions of units every year in Asia and Europe. Same specs wey Redmi dey offer, realme dey give too, sometimes even cheaper.

So the question be:

Why we dey always stick to only the popular brands?

Na lack of awareness?

Na fear of “unknown” brands?

Or na just say we no wan take risk?


Who here don try one of these “newer” brands before? Share your experience make we reason am.

fear of tye unknown was my problem.
I'd rather trust my money with something more popular until they lost the plot. They became more expensive and they just packed it with unnecessary features. My cousin was the one that mentioned this new brand realme to me and tbh I doubted. But the price of the C61 caught my attention. "Phones can be this cheap in 2025?"
And we have been enjoying the phone so far. So much wahala. Good battery life and I can even play games on it without lagging.
Life no suppose hard fr

It's very easy to just buy any Phone you see online. But the most issues comes when you have an issue to repair or change a part in the Phone. It happened to me in 2019. After that time, I just switched to a brand I can easily find their parts in Nigeria.



Brands like TECNO, you can easily find their spare parts or accessories anywhere in Nigeria. So it's not really about fear of the unknown...omoooooohhhh if I see better Phone outside I go buy oooo, as long as I no dey use am for Nigeria. If not, one day I'll spoil or screen go bad and I'll just package my it and put inside my wardrobe

Nigerians are typical examples of if something dey work for us before even if it doesn't do so again, let's keep doing it since it used to be before

People no wan take risks and also repair availability is also what people watch out for

onlyedwin:
These are the issues and it enough to decide not to try new brands again, I understand you man

but with enough market reserve and reviews, trying out a new brand is not so bad take realme and Poco for example they make really good phones