Nigeria

BlackBerry Q10 now available for pre-order from Airtel

BlackBerry Q10 now available for pre-order from Airtel

After a few weeks of sitting there in their systems, Airtel Nigeria has finally opened their pre-order page for BlackBerry’s second BlackBerry 10 device, the Q10 to the public. Unlike the Z10, the Q10 features a physical QWERTY keyboard that BlackBerry devices are almost synonymous with. According to the information on the page, the device would cost N110,000+ (yes, there’s actually a ... »

Stop the misinformation, BIS plans work on BlackBerry 10.

Stop the misinformation, BIS plans work on BlackBerry 10.

I thought I had written too many posts on the above issue, but apparently not, I got a DM this morning asking me if I was sure BIS worked on BlackBerry 10 because a couple of blogs including the well respected mobility blog say otherwise so I thought to write one final post brief post on the issue. First the confusion arises from what we consider BIS here. BIS is not data alone. The term BIS refer... »

Number Portability 25 days in: The Report.

Number Portability 25 days in: The Report.

It has been 25 days since Mobile Number Portability went live in Nigeria, after all the fanfare, resources put into the project, and network ads jabbing each other, how is the project really going? Well, we have some information. We can exclusively tell you that as at yesterday, just over 3,000 lines had been ported across the four GSM networks so far. We have been asked not to give a breakdown of... »

Nokia and Airtel launch the Nokia Lumia 520 and 720 in Nigeria

Nokia and Airtel launch the Nokia Lumia 520 and 720 in Nigeria

Nokia in partnership with Airtel Nigeria have today launched the Lumia 520 and Lumia 720 into the Nigerian market. The lumia 720 targetted at über-social types prone to late night party shots, self-portraits and multimedia uploads,is a 4.3-inch device, sporting a polycarbonate unibody like 920 in a much slimmer and smoother form factor. It also packs a dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon CPU (the same as th... »

Yookos opens up its APIs to developers

Yookos opens up its APIs to developers

To give developers in Africa the opportunity to create applications that suite the trending and emerging social media landscape, Yookos a social network site that focuses on providing users the best platform to connect, share and interact has launched their Application Programming Interface (API) at the World Mobile Web West Africa 2013 Conference in Lagos. The announcement was made during the com... »

Just 28.5% of the GSM lines in Nigeria subscribe to internet plans.

Just 28.5% of the GSM lines in Nigeria subscribe to internet plans.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has released some stats which give an insight to the internet use in Nigeria. Of the 113 million active GSM lines in Nigeria, only about 32,335,478 of them (as at February 2013), are actively subscribed to data plans offered by their home networks. Off the bat, it’s easy to see that MTN Nigeria which accounts for 45% of the total GSM subscribers i... »

Lenovo’s debuting it’s Smartphones in Nigeria before Christmas.

Lenovo’s debuting it’s Smartphones in Nigeria before Christmas.

Chinese technology company and second largest maker of personal computers, Lenovo would be the next multinational technology company that would be coming after the Nigerian phone market it seems. According to a report by Bloomberg Lenovo plans to set camp and get in on the action that is Nigeria’s lucrative phone business. Lenovo’s prime motivation seems to be the open nature of the ph... »

Breaking: MTN revises Q10, pre-orders will now cost N120,000

Breaking: MTN revises Q10, pre-orders will now cost N120,000

We have heard about the BlackBerry Q10′s demand being quite high since launch, Selfridges in UK sold out their stock in minutes, even BlackBerry is said to have underestimated the demand and have re-adjusted production to meet demand. It seems like that demand crunch, has gotten here as well. MTN is sending out the followings text to people who pre-ordered from them. Yello! Due to revised pr... »

Revisiting theNetNG’s purported “Hack” [UPDATED]

Revisiting theNetNG’s purported “Hack” [UPDATED]

A few days ago, after reading the story of theNetNG’s purported “hack” in my stories I read post, I hinted that there was probably a lot more to the story than met the eye. Instead of writing my thoughts in a full post, I  contacted my friend Oladipo Ademola Esq to share his views seeing as he is an expert on such things, and here are his thoughts below which first appeared on hi... »

Unboxing and Hands-on Photos of the BlackBerry Q10 + 1st Impressions

Unboxing and Hands-on Photos of the BlackBerry Q10 + 1st Impressions

I have gotten my hands on a review unit of BlackBerry’s second BlackBerry 10 device, the physical QWERTY keyboard sporting Q10. After playing with it for about an hour, here are a few impressions. The hardware keyboard is great. It’s the best one ever till date. I have had a Bold 9900 on me at all times for the better part of 2 years, but almost instantly, the difference is quite clear. It’s been ... »

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