₦airaland Forum

angelina08:
I love Nokia product, is Nokia has been the best in the market, Now we have another announces Nokia N97 touchscreen phone. I believed it is going to be original Nokia.

How do you people manage to pass JAMB anyway? Stop blathering about Nokia and work on your grammar.

oxford:
There is more about Lagos than all that. Lagos represent a facinating destination not only to job seekers but also thousand of whites as well. About 30% of the island is populated by this journalist brother. So if Lagos is that bad what are doing here? Truth is Lagos is no different from other major city in the world - the rich and the poor abound. Me think the writer's anger for Lagos is similar to that of John McCain for Obama - this is our exclusive preserve mentality. Wake man the world is changing, its time for the black continent to take back what rightly belongs to it. Its our time.

How did you manage to deduce 'anger' and racism from that article when none existed?
Your first post on Nairaland and you just had to sound like an idiot, didn't you?


[quote author=game_rod link=topic=205534.msg3204592#msg3204592 date=1228905749]These fools talk as if Nigeria starts and ends in Lagos, its like saying America starts and ends in the ghetos of Bronx and flood infested black neighbourhoods down south.

Go to Abuja and see, granted, Lagos is in shambles, but it is completely wrong to use that as a yardstick to measure the country Nigeria. Visit Calabar and see, drive through Port Harcourt and see, go to a few northern cities and see, to me, it is a fool who uses what he sees in Lagos as a yardstick to conclude about situations in the entire country Nigeria.[/quote]Yet again you miss the point of the entire article. The only thing you've succeeded in doing so far is showing us all that you aren't very bright indeed

adconline:
only Zimbaweans can tackle Mugabe. Time to act is now. Stop moving to South AFrican and redeem your nation.

and face bullets and torture, eh?

Mugabe is now blaming the west for the cholera outbreak in his country. What an idiot!

@game_rod
Of course the NY tImes writes articles about America. They also write articles about India, China, the Middle east, london etc. Every so often NEwsweek and TIME do a special feature on other places. The current TIME magazine has an article on Cuba as a cover feature.
In short, they write about the world.

Don't know why you've got your panties in a bunch over a simple article, There's nothing sinister about it, it's just a plain old expose. Nothing more.

You rant and ramble on as if the writer gave you a wedgie.

Somebody please translate!!

@jenju
Just sent you an email!

flyuche:
this phone is way better than those useless so called netbooks(well for children, no problem)

Flyuche
Now you're taking on Netbooks too?
Most netbooks come with a 9 - 10 inch screen, a 1.6Ghz intel Atom processor, 120 - 160 GB hdd and run a standard windows OS. And you can compare them to a device running a much slower ARM chip with a far smaller and lower res screen, weaker WiFi and a dodgy OS?
You keep referring to 'children' and 'toys' in your posts. Is this a freudian slip?

I have since come to the realization that you do not know much about technology. And you're too lazy to do any basic research.

My fault for feeding the troll.


PS: You do realize, don't you, that the N97 will not be out until mid 2009. And then it'll be going up against the next generation iPhone. Good luck to it!

lipuka:
I am proud of being black, and so I think there is everything right about having a black Pope. I am sure there are very many of you who celebrated Obama's win as pRESIDENT OF THE us OF a and I am sure the celebration was because he is black, and nothing else, eeeh A K O? But I am not Catholic; I am a Methodist.

Then keep your methodist thoughts to yourself and be quiet!

We celebrated Obama's victory because he did it on merit. As Chris Rock said, you think anyone would have been rooting for Flava Flav just because he's black?!

felifeli:
No offence dude, just giving my own candid opinion of the piece (I am entitled to one too aint I ?) . why are you so quick to take offence at this ??

I didn't use words like 'crap' and 'dumb readers'. You did.

Charlesmud:
Yes you are right But there is something you don't get clear, If Nigeria government is good then the citizens wont be forced to the corruptive or improper acts. MInd you there is corruption everywhere but their is also limitations to it.

But the case of Nigeria's corruption is due to the bad governance, I am sure you understand that if people have 70-80 percent of the basic things the need in life, they wont be any reason for then to mis-act partake in any improper things. All is was the cus of the money not flowing around Nigeria and Nigeria which means the money goes to some selected people (government officials and politicians and their family), So how do you want others to survive when they don't have and no hope of having ?

GOVERNMENT IS THE CAUSE !!!

Pah!
So explain why at least 70% of the boys doing Yahoo Yahoo are still in secondary school or are undergraduates, people who have not yet had a taste of the harsh realities of life on their own.

Whether governmen is the cause or not, corruption has taken root in Nigeria. it has since been enshrined as a way of life. This scheme of yours is doomed to failure because when the time comes Nigerians never have the spine to take a stand.

And please, don't even mention Thailand. We all know such a thing will hardly be possible in Nigeria.

Why are some people so eager to take offence?

The writer is just painting a picture of the contrast between the superrich and superpoor in Lagos and people like felifeli are already up in arms.


It seems many people are so jaded by our subservient, grovelling journalists.

flyuche:
why compare a blackberry to the iphone? apart from playing games, music and surfing what else can the iphone do? toy.

Quit being a troll and do some research for yourself. All Ex Inferis posted is open knowledge on the internet.

In before Nairalanders start bashing the poster

@Poster
sucker for punishment, eh?  

Charlesmud:
Thank you "Negro_Ntns", I have always seen your points from your words to develop Nigeria. We are clear and we all know the main thing, "NIGERIA IS CORRUPT DUE TO BAD POLITICIANS IN GOVERNMENT"

One of the reasons why Nigeria is in a shambles is because we believe the above statement.
Corruption in Nigeria resides not only in the Elite, but in nearly all strata of the Nigerian society. Corruption has become a way of life, a means to an end and the holy grail of personal satisfaction.
There is little difference between the Minister stealing millions, the Principal siphoning school funds, the enterpreneur who does not pay salaries for months and the market women who use the bottom of the tin cup to measure rice.

Take nairaland as an example. Any topic on taxes and 419 shows that a huge chunk of our youth are in favour of tax evasion and offer tacit support for Yahoo yahoo. yet we still hide under the self-righteous belief that 'corruption of politicians is killing the country'


There's a reason songs glorifying corruption and ill-gotten wealth like 'Yahoozee' and 'Maga don pay' are chart toppers in Nigeria. And it's not because of politicians. It's the ordinary youths out there that are grooving to these insidious lyrics.
Even if we kill all the politicians alive today, the youth of today are far more greedy that their precursors.

Jarus:
In a predominantly Muslim LG, distributing rams to people, if fairly done and not cornered by a set of people, I believe, is part of welfare package from the people.

It would have been a different case if the price of the cows had been ridiculously high but N28,000 per ram isn't out of place. Even poor us here bought 13 rams ranging from N18,000 to N22,500 each for the just concluded sallah.

WTF?!
My neighbour bought his own Ram for N29000. Bloody ripoffs in Port Harcourt!

That boils down to about N28000 per goat. Is that too bad? Not sure how much a goat costs now but i'm sure N28k isn't too crazy.

Not sure why a local Govt council is distributing goats to people sha. Local Govts are meant to use their monies to improve the lot of their people wthrough sustainable development, not handing out goats to select people.

My point is you cannot use isolated cases to judge a device.

What amuses me is that the reviews flyuche posted here are not even on the first page, he had to go dig down deep to find something negative to say about the phone.

@flyuche
if you cannot afford an iPhone, you can buy an ipod touch instead. No phone but you get other great features. No sense in you being consumed by envy 

Now, i set up this thread to discuss Killer Apps on the iphone and ipod touch. If you must bash the device itself please do so on another thread


Back to topic

Ferrari GT
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Fieldrunners!! An amazing tower defense game and it's on TIME magazine's top 10 best games of 2008 list.
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Positive iphone user reviews

N95 user review. See how meaningless it is to filter only negative reviews?

lynxnoon:
AHA!! Iphones users na wah oh; y una no mention all this na?

After the guy took only poor reviews and posted them here? Despite the few negative reviews, the average review score on phonearena stands at 8.1, with many people giving it a 9 - 10.
The battery life issue occurs in isolated cases with defective hardware and apple replaced them FOC.

Let me demonstrate my point. phone arena N96 user review below

Seun:
Use http://wap2.nairaland.com/ if you really want to enjoy nairaland on your iphone.

See Inferis' post above. we get full HTML browsing on the iPhone's safari browser. Unless there's a need to trim down the traffic for those using GPRS (and are cash strapped) there's no need to go to the wap site. especially over WiFi.
You need to get yourself one!

@labiyemmy
I think it's time i started encouraging your work. Oya, how much can i get the N95 version for? I need complete maps for Lagos & Port Harcourt as a minimum.

@hancock, Inferis

You tried Hero of Sparta yet?

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Saw her in Mama G's music videos. Pretty girl but she unfortunately has a sagging pot belly. Not nice in a lady IMHO.

tunnex190:
More sites please, i want to download real action and adventures, sports 3D games

Pc guru has already provided some links. You don't even have the good manners to cough out a simple 'thanks!' before demanding for more.

@dakmanzero
Since you're talking about things relevant to Nigerian culture, i'm not sure of the success of any such game.
First off, Nigerians are enthralled by visuals. it's 3D or nothing. With such a limited budget, i doubt any game made will have cutting edge visuals and hence it'll suffer in comparison to contemporary games.
Add to that the lack of interest from younger gamers in many things pertaining to Nigerian culture and values.
Distribution is another issue. Since it obviously will be PC only, getting an unpirated version may be challenging. Also PC gamers are a far more discerning breed than the shambling zombies that watch home videos, so they'll be a harder sell.

Are you seriously considering this? Expect a call from me soon.

Finally, you may want to consider using any of the available middleware like Unity 3D to develop a simple FPS mirroring key campaigns of the Biafran war. or you could just use the Quake 3 Engine. This scales well on older hardware (ensuring many people can get in - Q3 engine games run well on Intel GMA 900 - 950 and even on Netbooks) and the ensuing furore over such a campaign will ensure many people buy into the game.

Who wouldn't want to frag a young OBJ in multiplayer?!

vowiski:
@Yegwa
you amaze me.
o! you want me to start playing sokudo? and the rest trash. nah, not me and the loads of hardcore gammers we got in this nation

Don't be all about graphics and glitz. Sometimes gameplay wins over visuals. I've had more fun playing Advance Wars on the Game Boy Advance than playing some of the crapware 3d games shovelled at us.

vowiski:
gta4 is not even the most expensive game made. so stop theose things about price.

Expensive doesn't always mean 'good' or 'successful'. Shenmue cost almost 100 million dollars to make and sold only about 1.2 million copies.

vowiski:
can they think? go and ask Hideo Kojima (mgs creator and king of gaming, with tons of award), he will tell stuff about gaming.
it's not BEANS!

Hideo Kojima is not the only succesful game developer in the world. and even he can make flawed games (i.e ZOne of the Enders - PS2). There are many devs that make stunning games with only a fraction of the manpower and resources available to him.
Games do not always have to have convoluted (and sometimes confusing) storylines (looking at you, MGS) to be stunning.

vowiski:
do Nigerians want to make a game console? info; the PS3 was developed by Sony with $3 billion.( convert to Naira, oh ma gush!, m bleeding) so it not child's play neither is it beans.
cheers.
think b3yound!

No one said anything about Nigerians making a game console. Which orifice did you pull that idea from?

Jakumo:
Iyabo Obasanjo stole the entire budget entrusted to her for the rehabilitation of state hospitals during her recent tenure as a health commissioner, and because she got away that crime in the same way her kleptocrat ex-president father stole with impunity Nigeria's entire federal electricity generation budget of 16 billion US dollars, this revolting hippopotamus simply cannot find the decency to shut her festering orifice and concentrate on spending her stolen loot, but rather chooses to celebrate her sublime ugliness of mind and body in full public glare at every opportunity.

If somebody is in fact preparing to silence this fat phuck as "she" alleges, then that is good news and a damn good start, indicating that the laws of divine retribution can be applied retroactively in deserving cases such as this one.

You, sir, are a Genius!!!

flyuche:
you know guys i have been wondering what real makes the iphone thick. i decided to grab one for myself, walked into a phone shop,and men! when i saw the price tag i froze, 150k + ? for a phone?
haba, the money reach buy a tokunbo car o!

That isn't saying anything. Walk into megaplaza and you'd think people still buy PS3s for N100k.
Some places will sell you an iPhone 3G 16Gb for 85 - 90k.

Boss Ttdiamonds:
What's it with this iphone users and nokia . . . . do you guys have an inbuilt hatred 4 nokia phones. . ,

I haven't seen anywhere in this post where someone has displayed an 'inbuilt hatred for nokia phones'. I've used a 6600, 6630 and an Ngage. I loved them then, but it's been more of the same from Nokia even with the Nseries.

thegame:
i think i got an answer. those iphone users are just not so bright to understand iphone can't compete with an average n series phone.

The iPhone in the right hands is way better than the average N-series phone. At least i have both an iPhone and an N95 and i can see the difference. Of course it doesn't help that there's very little difference between all the N-series phones if you really think about it.
easy on the 'not so bright' part.

thegame:
i gotta give them the props for the memory though but frankly, how much memory do u even fill up? even if u manage to fill everything up, how many songs do u think u will listen to before the battery runs out. same applies to videos(this even kills battery faster)
let's wake up and just not give these phone makers unnecessary reasons to rip us off

i have a 16GB iphone, currently with only 1.5 Gb free. And that's just because i'm not that much of an audiophile. The iPhone can play 23 hours of music non-stop, and 5 hours of video. Please don't use the crappy battery life of the N95 as a benchmark here.
Since when did providing ample storage space and music and video playback become a 'rip-off'?

mrghost:
You can do it yourself!

do you care to know the hidden secret of your Ipod?

like,

[list]
[li]What Kind of iPod Do I Have?
What’s Wrong: Diagnosing Your iPod
Cracking the Case
Power Issues: Replacing the Battery and
Other Power Concerns
Can’t See a Thing: Replacing Broken Screens
Storing Tunes and Such: Sorting Out
Your Hard Drive
Cranking up the Volume: Replacing Your
Audio Jack
Facing the Music: Replacing the Front Panel or Shell
Does Not Compute: Replacing the Logic Board
More Than Just Tunes: Looking at Third-Party
Firmware and Software[/li]
[li][/li]
[/list]

and many more you need to know
just send your request for the free e-book teaching you all this. to
pctophonetips@yahoo.com

Were you dropped on your head when you were a kid?! This is the 'phones' section. Find somewhere else you can post your dubious info.