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The Infinix Zero is the latest Android flagship by the France-based OEM, Infinix Mobility. Featuring a 5-inch HD display (720 X 1080 resolution) and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, this 1.4 GHz 8-core processor device ships with Android KitKat 4.4.2 OS in two variants:

1GB RAM and 8GB internal memory, retailing for N20,900 (~$130 off contract)
2GB RAM and 16 GB internal memory, retailing for N23,900 (~$150 off contract)
All exclusively via Konga.com

A lot of folks are probably wondering how a device with such amazing specs comes so cheap? How much smartphone can you actually get from a sub 30k device? Well… quite a lot. I review the 2GB RAM/ 16GB ROM variant.

The Good Stuff

Yay, free data!

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If you buy an Infinix Zero from Konga, you get complimentary 500 MB monthly data from Etisalat, for the next 12 months. That’s 24,000 worth of mobile data.

Cruising on the highway

After my first few days with the Inifinix Zero, I thought the performance was outstanding for its class. I am still quite impressed.


Multitasking is a breeze, the gaming and video experience is smooth. The Infinix Zero is the first low/mid range Android smartphone I have used where background apps never restart, when you relaunch from the multitasking screen. And unless you’re coming from a really high end device, there’s hardly any noticeable lag with the Infinix Zero. I can’t say how long before it starts to deteriorate in overall performance (don’t they all?). My guess is that by the time that happens, you would have gotten more value than bargained.

Gotta love the display

I am quite impressed with the Infinix Zero display. Viewing angles are really good and it does considerably well under direct sunlight. I find that I can get by with below 50% brightness level in most lighting conditions.

Under direct sunlight however, you are forced to ramp brightness up to 100%. But you will have no trouble reading text or viewing images and videos. The Infinix Zero won’t win any awards for best display but you’d be hard-pressed to find better displays in its price range

Yay, plenty space for apps!

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There’s this thing OEMs do with low budget devices. They come cheap with all these impressive specs and all but then as a trade-off, you’re punished with very little internal memory for installing apps. And even worse, not all apps can be moved to your memory card. Soon you start getting tons of “internal memory” warnings. I had this issue with the Innjoo i1s, and I’m not even an app junkie. I was kinda expecting same with the Infinix Zero. I was pleasantly disappointed.

The good guys at Infinix were nice enough to allocate a full 4 GB for apps. Even better, a lot of the apps you install on the Infinix Zero will default to the memory card. The app junkies are probably smiling now.

The not-so-great stuff

Invest in a powerbank

powerbank

Right from when I first saw the specsheet, I wasn’t expecting much from the Infinix Zero in the power department. I was right. Afterall, there’s only so much mileage you can get from a measly 1900 mAh battery powering an 8-core processor.

I managed to get 8 hours of fairly normal use from the battery before it dropped to the critical 10%. This means if you unplug at say 7am in the morning, by 3pm you will need to recharge. Of course you could probably get more hours from more cautious use. “Normal” use is very subjective.

Bottom-line – Infinix Zero battery life sucks. If you’re looking to get this device, please “invest” in a powerbank

13 MP Camera is good … enough

The Infinix Zero features a 13 MP camera in the rear and 2 MP in front. If you are looking for Samsung Galaxy S4 image quality, you might end up disappointed. There’s more to quality phone cameras than just megapixels.

Not that the primary camera is poor. It’s just… good enough. Which is not exactly a bad thing, especially if you won’t been doing anything more than browsing photos or sharing with friends on Instagram and Facebook.

What? The front camera? Are they ever any good?


Brilliant design, not very smart implementation

The Infinix Zero has got quite a premium feel to it. But there’s a couple of things I wish they got right with the design. Not that I can’t live with them, I just feel they could have done better.

One of the first things I noticed about the Infinix Zero was that I did not like the positioning of the power/lock/unlock and volume controls. They are placed right under the memory card slot on the right edge of the device.

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More often than not, I find myself pressing the power/lock button when I mean to press volume up. It’s just too far down than usual. I think they should have put memory card slot on the right edge with the dual SIM slots to create enough space for the control buttons.

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SIM slots are on the left. They go in face up

Another questionable design choice is replacing standard Android touch buttons with dots.

Let's play a game eh? Which one is the home button?
Let’s play a game eh? Which one is the home button?

It’s like some design guy at Infinix assumes everyone must have used an Android device before.

The horrible stuff

None. I can’t find a single thing that is particularly horrible about the Infinix Zero. It really is an amzing device.

Shortcomings (battery and camera) aside, I honestly think the Infinix Zero is an absolute steal at its 23k price tag (20k for the 8GB ROM / 1GB RAM variant). It’s not about the low price tag. It’s also about how much value you get for that price.

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Some really valid points were raised by the op especially in the area of design and trend appeal,
I will Liken nairaland to a great wine that hasn't been put in a designer bottle yet, proper packaging is what the site needs
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Threaten to Call in hackers then they will anwser you

There is a check sign on the dashboard and the car jerks at intervals

PS: its an 06 model

i boiled half pot of water added every ingredient the same time closed pot and then brought it down after a few mins

A friend of mine was caught with "materials" in the exam hall and people wher shouting "chew it chew it" little did they know it was a 300 paged chemistry textbook.

Liners are archaic, let the convo flow naturally and with the right dose of confidence you should be able to get anyone to listen to you

10. There Is An Alien Satellite Hovering Over Earth

This conspiracy theory states that a 13,000-year-old satellite called the Black Knightis orbiting our planet. As the story goes, Nikola Teslawas the first man to discover its existence after he began receiving radio signals in 1899 which he believed came from space, a claim also made by amateur radio operators in the early 20th century. Later on, newspaper reports in the 1950s and ’60s detailing the discovery of a mysterious object in space coupled with supposed photographic evidence helped to fuel belief in the Black Knight’s existence.
If this supposed satellite really does exist, then why is it there? According to Scottish writer Duncan Lunan, the Black Knight satellite is actually a space probethat contains a map to a faraway alien planet called Epsilon Bootis, and the unidentified radio signals are in fact an attempt by those inhabitants to communicate with humans. Although skeptics have sought to debunk the alien satellite as nothing more than space junk or debris, believers have continued to insist otherwise.

9. MacArthur And Alien Warfare In The.
Future

Did Douglas MacArthur, the man who led the US against the Japanese and later the Koreans and Chinese, foresee a future war against aliens? According to a supposed speech he made in 1955, MacArthur warned that all countries of the Earth should unite, because the next war would involve humanity against aliens from other planets. Conspiracy theorists closely tie the general’s statements with his alleged involvement in the creation of the ambiguous Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, a government agency supposedly tasked with investigating mysterious UFO crashes in the 1950s and which was later absorbed by the Air Force. As the story goes, the IPU’s findings that UFOs constituted a threat to national and global securitywas what prompted MacArthur to render his speech.
MacArthur’s statements, although somewhat sensationalizedlater on by the media, nonetheless manifested his belief that someday in the future, all of us might experience a real-life version ofIndependence Day.

8. The US Government Secretly Sent.
Astronauts To Another Planet

According to this conspiracy theory, the administration of President JFK—and, later, Johnson—allegedly sent astronauts to a faraway planetcalled Serpo. The ambitious project began after the US government supposedly saved the life of an alien whose spacecraft crashed in Roswell. In return, the grateful alien established an exchange program with the government and made arrangements for two spaceships to pick it up along with a dozen specially trained astronauts in 1965. After 37 light-years, the astronauts finally reached Serpo and spent more than a decade learning about the planet and its inhabitants, a race called Ebens. According to them, the Ebens numbered more than 600,000 but lived in a peaceful, government-free community. After 13 years, the team finally returned to Earth four members short after two of them died and another two chose to stayon Serpo. Unfortunately, there are no surviving members of the team today, as all of them supposedly succumbed to the high radiation levels brought on by the two suns of Serpo.

7. Jesus Was An Alien

Remember the belief that the gods that ancient people worshiped and revered were actually aliens? If that theory is to be believed, then Jesus might have also been one, a fact that is supposedly being suppressed by the Church. As the theory goes, all the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ life hinted at extraterrestrial origins. His “virgin birth,” for instance, could be attributed to aliens artificially inseminating Mary, which in turn would explain why he could perform miraculous feats as well as communicate with otherworldly beings such as angels (who themselves were actually aliens).
Believers also point to Jesus’ statements that he was “not of this world” as hints of his real heritage. The theory goes on to say that after his resurrection, Jesus was beamed upinto a spaceship and that the Catholic Church later suppressedthe rest of the details by marking books such as the Epistles of the Apostles as apocryphal.

6. The US Battled Nazi UFOs In Antarctica.
And Lost

Although the official explanationfor the unprecedented US expedition to Antarctica in 1946 was to map out the area and deny the Soviets a foothold at the same time, conspiracy theorists believe that the voyage itself was really a secret operation to track down a hidden Nazi base. According to them, the surviving Nazis—including Hitler, in some versions—escaped to their fortress in the frozen wasteland with the help of advanced UFO technology. The US, armed with this information, then mounted a clandestine military campaign against them but were decisively defeated and forced to retreat.
In reality, it was actually the bad weather that compelled the US expedition to leave the area. However, that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists (especially neo-Nazis) from celebrating the “victory” and continuing to hold out on the hope that a fleet of Nazi UFOswill one day come out of Antarctica and start World War III.

5. The US Has A Secret Space Fleet

Remember Gary McKinnon, the notorious Scottish hacker whom the US tried to unsuccessfully extradite after he broke into the military’s database in search of evidence of UFO activity? According to his supporters, the reason for the “extraordinary” persecution that McKinnon has been facing is because he did discover something in the US military’s files, namely a secret space program called the Solar Warden.
According to them, the US is merely using NASA as a front to maintain a fleet of spaceships secretly floating in orbit. This fleet, which is also jointly led by the United Nations and counts several nationalities among its crew, is supposedly mandated to protect the Earth and the rest of the solar system from evil local terrorists and interstellar groups. As to how the US managed to get the technology, it was supposedly provided by an age-old group of extraterrestrial civilizations called “Star Nations” who also charged the country with leading this secret fleet.

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Wise man oya help us

10. Mobiado Pioneer

As far as luxury phones go, Mobiado Pioneer probably has the coolest reason for its astronomical cost (€8,600, which is roughly Rs. 7,00,000). The company says the phone is a tribute to the Pioneer 10 satellite probe - the first man-made object to go past the asteroid belt beyond the planet Mars. In a fitting tribute, this phone has a back cover that's made of an actual meteorite. Our palms are itching for first impressions.

9. Jardin Secret White Ice

Savelli's Jardin-Secret series consists of 11 luxury phones, all of which have been hand-crafted and run Android. With each of these phones, Savelli says users get an exclusive UI design and sounds created by professional photographers and DJs. White Ice is a variant targeted at women, and comes with 18-carat rose gold and white alligator skin. While animal lovers may frown at this phone, those who want to buy phones from this series will have to shell out $10,000 to $1,20,000 (around Rs. 6,00,000 to Rs. 72,00,000).

8.Ulysse Nardin Chairman

Phones with the old numeric keypad went out of fashion a long time ago. Yet Ulysse Nardin has managed to make a good-looking retro phone with one. The Chairman is not unique for its keypad, but for its passive recharging system. The phone has a kinetic rotor system that can recharge the phone's battery (similar to the technology used in some watches). For that cool technology and lots of diamonds of course, you might have to shell out anywhere between $12,800 and $49,500 (approximately Rs. 7,20,000 to Rs. 29,00,000).

7.Vertu Constellation

Luxury handset maker Vertu's Constellation smartphone costs €4,900 (roughly Rs. 4,16,000). features a 4.3-inch HD display with 342ppi pixel density which is protected by a 5.1-inch piece of sapphire crystal which the company claims can only be scratched by a diamond. Luxury components aside, the phone also has a case made of calf leather, which is available in five colours and is far from good-looking.

6.Dior Reverie

So why does Dior's Reverie phone cost £78,000 (roughly Rs. 78,00,000)? Apparently because each unit is hand-assembled in France, "intricately embellished in 18-carat white gold, 1,539 diamonds and 46 pieces of iridescent mother-of-pearl". Seriously, if you really had that much money, wouldn't you be better served by buying all that jewellery minus the phone? This phone comes with a full touch screen and a five megapixel camera. You could buy that separately if you had the money

5.BlackBerry Porsche Design

If this phone is anything to go by, we're happy that Porsche doesn't make phones. The iconic luxury car maker's touch hasn't added to this phone's looks at all. In fact, the P9981 looks like a phone that got the worst of both worlds - the bulk (and price) of a car and software from a bygone era. To top it all, BlackBerry's product listingrefers to the BB7 OS on this phone as the "next-generation BlackBerry OS". We're still wondering if anyone really believes that to be true. The price? Rs. 1,39,990.

4.Tag Heuer Link

When it was launched in 2011, Tag Heuer Link was actually a pretty good Android smartphone. Its sealed body is water-tight and shock-resistant. If you like rugged smartphones, you might even have considered shelling out $6,700 (around Rs. 4,20,000) to buy one. However, luxury smartphones age like their cheaper counterparts. The phone runs Android 2.2 Froyo, and looks more like a PDA (remember those) than a smartphone.

3.Tonino Lamborghini Antares

Italian car maker Lamborghini's owners also dabble in luxury goods, such as the phone in the image above. Priced at £2,500 (roughly Rs. 2,50,000) each, this phone is probably the best looking among the ones listed thus far. That is if you ignore the gold variant, whose looks can be described as the opposite of beautiful. Assuming you ever buy this phone, Lamborghini also sells a range of not-so-beautiful leather cases to compensate for the phone's good looks. Let us know how you liked it.

2.Stuart Hughes Iphone 5 Black Diamond

If there ever was a star-studded product, it probably would be the Stuart Hughes iPhone 5 Black Diamond. Thanks to real diamonds and ample Photoshopping, the phone looks like a school student's astronomy project. Priced at £10,000,000 (roughly Rs. 1,00,00,00,000), we're not quite sure if anyone who plans to use the phone would buy it. Constantly looking at the phone will prove to be a tough task, thanks to several shiny diamonds.

1 Htc One M7 Gold Edition

Apple's gold-coloured iPhone 5s might have sparked a gold rush in the smartphone industry. Both Samsung and HTC announced gold-coloured variants of flagships Galaxy S5 and One (M8) this year. But HTC was first to take the newfound gold obsession quite literally, making the "most expensive HTC phone ever created" - HTC One (M7) Gold Edition. We're not surprised to know that only five of these made-in-gold phones were created - each valued at £2,750 (roughly Rs 2,75,000) each.

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Goodluck in advance

Hemanwel: ....

See as those 4 dots resemble the length of ure third leg

Fran6u: I believe such guys you've so well described already have a self esteem issue, as such, they employ bodybuilding as compensation for such deficiency, and work "rather too hard" to impress upon anyone within earshot, what great amount of work it cost them to achieve the look they have.

Wrong! Since when did looking good, taking care of yourself and pursuing a healthy lifestyle become a thing for people with low self esteem, u just committed fallacy of hasty generalization

There is something about this song so similar to your threads(useless and empty)

Andyblaze: With this song wizkid can top the US billboard chart...this song is just like where michael jackson, lil wayne, chris brown, beyonce, kanye west, kendrick lamar, 2face, d banj, davido all do collabo....this is a MASSIVE hit!!!!
Omg wizkid is d best artiste in the world

bajeen: .

See as that dot resemble your brain

Cortana predicts right again!!!!!!

Congratulations to messi, argentina and south america

So there is no backup for this site... its not about collecting money for ads You are lucky they didn't wipe to 2005

Nigerian entertainment is a funny business. Nothing is as it seems, with ‘packaging’ and insane hype making everything and everyone seem like a blessing from some Greek god. Also do we know that without a definite structure to the industry, and a host of dynamic personalities interacting, anything and everything can happen. (Casts a glance the way of Jim Iyke, his deliverance, and fight in Ghana). We know 2face will still be King, Modenine will be the crowned prince of Nigerian Hip hop culture, and Wizkid will remain single. (And maybe get another baby mama). How boring. Yawns.
Well what a difference a year and 3 soft porn queens make (AfroCandy, Cossy & Maheeda). Everything is in play in this crazy, up-is-down, blue-is-red, KCee is a superstar, no, wait, KCee is a star this year. From Don Jazzy’s loss of Wande Coal to Chocolate City’s war with Brymo to Jesse Jagz’s weed romance, and Tonto Dikeh’s new boyfriend, everything is in place for a blockbuster 2014.

It takes a brave man -- and many commenters often use more colorful adjectives -- to attempt to impose order on all that chaos, but then if Wande Coal can steal from Don Jazzy and proclaim himself a ‘Black Diamond’, I can venture out on a shaky limb and try to divine the rest of the new year. Just don’t hold me to these fearless predictions when Wizkid gets married, and Davido is signed to P.Diddy in April.


Sean Tizzle

After dropping ‘Shoo Le’, the young performer has gone on to make himself a brand, headlining concerts, and making a great deal out of himself, while older and more matured artistes lie in obscurity. Expect Sean Tizzle to continue his rise in 2014.

Burna Boy
Oh what a spectacular year Burna Boy has had. Gaining massive appeal has made him more popular (and admirably arrogant), with a new album dropped, and plenty of performance and endorsement money received, Chritsmas Dinner must have tasted yummy for the boy from Port Harcourt. But then dark clouds are beginning to gather for Burna as reports of his unhappiness with his record label, Aristokrat Label, and also his alleged ban from the UK for stabbing a man to death. Also take in his erratic behavior and his ability to beat up people at will.
2014 will be quite dicey for Burna Boy. He will leave his record label.

D’banj
The matter with D’banj isn’t that he isn’t successful. The real problem lies in his inability to drop classic hits anymore. It seems with his split Don Jazzy, he lost his balls for good music, but got signed to GOOD Music and Kanye West’s petulance.

Fans in Nigeria have laid many a complaint about their inability to connect with his new style, and many have berated his ‘ill-decision’ to leave Nigeria.
Right now though, he sits pretty as a top earner in Africa, just because he’s ‘D’banj’; the man has built his brand to a level where cheap music cannot derail his finances. He’s Bank Of Industry ambassador, headlined Hennessy Artistry 2013, and raked in enough cash to make Don Jazzy green with envy.

Davido

One hit after another, this 21 year old man keeps us dancing to melodious meaningless songs. 2014 will be no different.

Tonto Dikeh Will Be Arrested This Year
I’m not sure if it’s her awful music, or another bout with marijuana that will make us pull out our hair again, but it’s a certainty that the Nollywood diva will do something so illegal and epic that she’ll miss a major part of movie shoots this year.
Now that soft-porn queens are taking all the media attention to themselves, Tonto has been left on the sidelines, a cold lonely star whose every fart goes unnoticed. But she’ll bounce back. And I feel she’ll indulge in cocaine.
And the NDLEA will come calling with handcuffs, and a cold prison for poor Tonto the junkie.
Stella Damasus Will Join The Government

I see Stella Damasus join an arm of the government. The Nollywood actress has earned it by being very vocal in her criticism of the Nigerian government.
She took the Child Bride saga personal, crying her heart out to whoever wants a listen. Then came ASUU strike, in which she weaved a new video to make us all sit up and take notice. She has earned her seat. Oga Goodluck, she’s ripe for some Federal seat.

Wizkid Will Drop A New Amazing Album
2013 was the year of collabos for Wizkid. Every song with a good beat has his voice on it…and blew out of proportion. He’s the King Midas of Nigerian Music!
This year, he’ll drop his personal album, and it will blow the world away. Wizkid’s new album might be so good, that the heavens will bring down rapture quickly before the world begins to worship him. Amen

Jesse Jagz Will Hit The Rehab
There’s so much weed in Jesse Jagz that I expect him to be found dead in a hotel room one day, with a wrap of marijuana offering the perfect reason why he has to go early to his maker.
But not yet.
In 2014, Jesse Jagz will find a weed-free mentor, who will influence him to change. Not the kind of change to make a man become a pastor, but the kind that’ll set him on the road to rehabilitation.
Jesse Jagz will stop smoking ganja. Thus sayeth the Joey Akan.


Don Jazzy Will Lose Tiwa But Grow Stronger

We all get the feeling that Don Baba J is losing his ‘X Factor’. D’banj took a huge chunk of it on his way out, so did Wande Coal. But the man keeps being so amazingly good at what he does best; good music.
He will lose Tiwa Savage this year. Not because his charm is faded, but because he sucks at man management. Tiwa and Husband T-Billz will walk away from the Don after their honeymoon, and they’ll cite B.S reasons about ‘taking her music to the next level’.
But Don Jazzy will be alright. He’s still Don Jazzy. Remember?
But He Will Be Re-United With D'banj
Thus answering the prayers of all fan, music enthusiasts, and the odd unemployed hipster. Amen.
Waconzy Will Tell Us More Truths

The DV-8 Media CEO and beef-lord will finally drink enough Alomo to give him the balls to hold his ship when under fire, and not go back on his words. He’ll finally release a long list of musicians who deserve the firing squad. Their crime? Making nonsense music.
He’ll have help from me, of course. And Davido will head the list. (laughs maniacally)

Olamide Will Lose His Mojo

Thus ending my favorite disgust at his successful razz indigenous music. Street-hop is popular these days, but for how long? Something else will come out to replace it. Some new sound that’s equally senseless, but appealing to the ears of Nigeria.
I’ll say, with the downfall Olamide, Reminisce will also go too, thus ending all the talk about ‘street being the new cool’.

Iyanya Will Struggl;e To Get A New Hit Song
The Kukere singer will trek from studio to studio, producer to producer, in search of the magic of KCee. His hits seem to have dried up, with ‘Le Kwa Ukwu’ being overshadowed by Timaya’s ‘Ukwu’.
2014 for Iyanya will be worse. He’ll survive on his past and lingering sexy glory, but then, how long will that last?
But he won’t sha sell his car.

And finally, the three nude celebrities will find Salvation…in TB Joshua

The porn-persistent Maheeda, the againg Cossy Orjiakor, and the old-cargo porn queen, Afro Candy disturbed us all with nude pictures, bad imitation of porn movies, and oversized wrinkling breasts. But this year, they will find a new path.
In will come T.B Joshua! The man of God has a penchant for rising up to the occasion when celebrities are in need of some divine fix. Just see how well Jim Iyke’s episode played out. After his deliverance and subsequent appearance in church, he broke up with his ‘public fiancee’ Nadia Buari, and proceeded to go fight in Ghana, getting arrested by the efficient Ghana police. I hear they have good guns over there.
Well this year they will get the TB Joshua treatment. Maybe not all, but I’m tipping one of them to find Christ. My money is on Cossy Orjiakor. Sister’s getting old, and her movies seem to have dried up.
Next up will be Christ for her.
These are my predictions for 2014, they will come true. Thank me later.
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