Posted by Angelgirl
Hi all: Who knows how i can manually input MTN GPRS settings on my new Nokia 2626 set, the GPRS settings no longer come automatically to sets, i dont know if something is wrong somewhere, i even tried to send settings from Nokia's website but it didnt come through.
I also need wapsite where i can download nigerian ringtones (FREE!
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Posted by OluYom
Abubakar: that's comforting to hear. The very idea that one is limited to PC cards and desktop phones is just retrogressive. Especially in this age when some of us were also looking forward to actually browsing on CDMA handsets along with modem capabilities.... Thanks for the correction.
Which raises the issue of unreliable info from customer care again. Brym also had an irritating experience with Reltel CC recently giving him inaccurate info. I tire.
Posted by brym!
@abu: Peace Tidings, Lagos sells the P990 for 40k.
Posted by abubakar
@AYA: the problem is in 2 parts.
1- there is some info, eg the incoming phones, that CC might not know or as there is no roll out date, might not want to divulge.
2- CC wouldnt market on behalf of dealers. they are to help move stock from thier own offices. but as always, most customers always prefer making all enquiries "from source". all purchases too.
Posted by abubakar
@brym: Thanx 4 d update. the price drop is on a heavy slope! someone offered 20k for my P900! the only question is what have peace tidings removed from the packaging? a high mem card? head phones? USB cable? extra stylus? they used to do those kind of moves some time back. i was a victim of 32mb mem card when everyone else got 64 from other shops! one guy got 128!
Posted by abubakar
@AYA: by the way, which phone are you using now? on my tiny screen i thot i saw ur avatar being a M600! and i know you wouldnt be using that.
Posted by mamba
@Amby, using jogdial to make calls on M600 is definitely gonna be inconvenient. I have decided to wait for Nokia 6120 until it's available in Nija. Cheap, small and light symbian with all the neccessary features.
Posted by OluYom
Abu: I'm currently managing a humble E61i
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The avatar I am using is the P1i, and is the closest thing to the E61i from the SE stable.
Posted by abubakar
@AYA: AHA! couldnt tell on my tiny screen.
Posted by epohcj
make una check out this cool naija website @ http:///epohcj.com.ng
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Posted by OluYom
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@epohcj: while you are welcome to PNF, you must understand that this is a discussion forum; not a classifieds board to plug your website. This is not the first time you are posting this. What you are doing is called spamming, and it is annoying.
To add to this, everytime I clicked on your link, the site is not available. Everytime.
Please join in the discussions or leave be. Sorry, I may sound hard; we'll make up later and be friends.
Posted by abubakar
UNCLE AYA LAYING DOWN THE LAW!
nothing stops anyone from adding a link to thier signature but just butting in to try to rack up hits is lame.
Posted by coolapostle
On 2007-07-25 20:11:02, abubakar wrote:
UNCLE AYA LAYING DOWN THE LAW!
nothing stops anyone from adding a link to thier signature but just butting in to try to rack up hits is lame.
He had an extra forward slash. Even then, the site did not appear on my browser.
Talking about browsers... I find that Firefox is faster than Opera. I use Firefox on my lappy and Opera in the office. When I browse, I open 6 or more pages at once: Yahoo, Google (searching something), PNF, Prodigts etc. My Opera struggles when I do that and now I just keep it to 3 windows open. Can anyone confirm?
Posted by 234hay
@ coola..: Firefox is in no way faster than Opera.At best it is almost as fast as Opera.This has nothing to do with number of tabs open.The only thing I might agree with is that Opera still has issues(quite few though) opening certain pages
@ all: The P1 is officially available(according to SEs website),that should bring down the price of P990,W950 & M600..hopefully
Posted by 234hay
@ epohcj: I have taken the pain to visit your website and all I got was green-white-green...Are you still updating it or what?
Posted by OluYom
In my experience over the years, Firefox has always been significantly faster than Opera. This has nothing to do with the number of tabs opened. After a while, I simply stopped using Opera for desktop.
In addition, Opera seems hampered loading certain web pages.
Posted by brix25
@AYA: Did you eventually download the Safari browser? I'm a recent Firefox convert having used IE and Opera over the years...also briefly used Safari on Mac back in the day when I was still working in that environment.
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Yes; I did. It is an excellent browser. I prefer its smooth, clean interface over Firefox's. However, Firefox beats it in speed and the amazing variety of add-on extensions.
I ditched Windows for Ubuntu Linux on my laptop recently, so I'm back to Firefox full time. I am yet to find a Linux port of the Safari browser. Firefox does an excellent job anyway.
Posted by ambyzown
On 2007-07-26 17:16:00, AYA wrote:
In my experience over the years, Firefox has always been significantly faster than Opera. This has nothing to do with the number of tabs opened. After a while, I simply stopped using Opera for desktop.
In addition, Opera seems hampered loading certain web pages.
Me too.
@234hay: Esato news has no reports yet of the P1 hitting the stands.
Posted by 234hay
@ ambyzown: Believe it,its available(maybe not yet in Nigeria though).There has been no new news posted on esato for a week or so.Its available in England as I type. see www.allaboutsymbian.com
@ aya,brix,coola...: I think I'll have my humble pie now(a small slice though).I just did a side by side comparison of Opera and Firefox loading Yahoo and Firefox was indeed faster. HOWEVER, Opera is very much the browser when clicking the Back button.
Posted by OluYom
The P1i has hit the shelves (and web shops) for about a week now around the world. My link with Otigba says he is yet to see a unit on sale in Nigeria yet. Of course, give it a week or two and there'll be someone in Lagos or Abuja clutching one soon.
Early adopter reports have been fairly good. Some general complaints about camera picture quality seem to cut across board though.
Posted by mamba
I lost respect for SE symbian a long time ago after the buggy p990, but may give this p1 a try if the price is right. I've been reading some good reviews so it seems I will have to learn how to call with the jog dial.
Posted by OluYom
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Don't we all eat our words every now and then. I can't count the number of times I ranted about against a phone, then turned around a purchased it much later. Somehow, these manufacturers seem to win. They must have psychologists and sociologists on their advisory panels
Posted by OluYom
Here's a P1 First Impressions.
Posted by brym!
Talking about eating words I might soon patronise these chinese copy phones with dual sim capacity. I hate carrying 2 phones and I have been doing that since Celtel slashed data tariffs. I played with 3 different touch screen types this month and I am quite impressed. I'll give the dual sim capability and java support a thorough test before committing myself.
Bottom line is that I need a device with:
big touch screen
java support for oppera mini
good keypad, not necessarily qwerty
email client support
slim and light weight...
Who says our needs are not dynamic?
Posted by adrusa
Hello pples!
Recently bought a nokia e90 and pronto, the second day, i did a silly thing and I smashed its outer screen. All efforts to get a repair since than had come to nought; i-cell @ opebi, etel on phone and even the Nokia care line. Otigba also drew a blank, the screen is not available anywhere in Nigeria to my knowledge. If anybody have some clues, can you please share it? Thanks.
Meanwhile, I was at Otigba recently and I saw a large number of iPhones for sale between 40 and 70K and I was wondering how could the phones have been legitimately brought to Nigeria. I guess there was no way, considering it was exclusively made for AT&T.
I thought this was the legendary Nigerian 419 at work and if EFCC will leave the politicians alone for ICPC to handle for a change, may be they will be able to tackle this 419 scourge.
Every shop that has an iPhone should be made to explain how they got it or get sealed up and its proprietors dealt with.
Posted by OluYom
@brym!: I feel you, man.
@adrusaa: Pity about the E90. Your present options include to fly it out for the repairs or wait till it has adequate support on ground here.
About the iPhones, those guys must have purchased in bulk and then had them unlocked. Honestly, only a legal personal can analyse the legality of the action. The UK laws for example uphold people's rights to unlock any phone. Nigeria apparently has no laws governing such. It looks like the Police can cash in on this one though. I'd love to hear Apple and AT&T legal departments respond to it.
But in the meantime, this means we should be expecting to see Nigerians yapping away on iPhones; shouldn't we?
Posted by adrusa
About the iPhones, those guys must have purchased in bulk and then had t
But in the meantime, this means we should be expecting to see Nigerians yapping away on iPhones; shouldn't we?
No, not so fast. iPhone is at present locked to AT&T. The only "unlock" solution available allows you to use the thing as an expensive movie and music player. The phone part will be tricky as far as I can see. Right now in Nigeria, iPhone is worth nothing as a phone, because you cant pop a sim into it and yap away!!
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The iPhone has of yet still not been cracked...Although last week I read that hackers have been able to make it work with AT&T's PAYG sim cards. It's a while till they truly unlock it and by the time that happens Apple would've launched the EMEA version (hopefully with 3G/HSDPA) which would make all these iPhones floating around pointless.
Posted by OluYom
If the iPhone has not been cracked yet, then those fellows offering them for sale here are simply playing on the intelligence of others. Shame.
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Indeed, right now you'll be buying an expensive toy...you'll be able to use the wi-fi but none of the network services that come with the iPhone- so basically you'll have an inferior PDA that looks nice.
Posted by ambyzown
Trust Nigerians to get the iPhone even if the phone part will not work.
I didn't expect this so soon, but it sees the P1 has inherited most of the bugs of the P990i. SE and UIQ3 don't look like a good combination.
But I read somewhere that Motorola has successfully implemented UIQ3 on a phone that has proven to be bug free. so what is SE doing wrong?
Posted by mamba
On 2007-07-29 23:41:32, ambyzown wrote:
I didn't expect this so soon, but it sees the P1 has inherited most of the bugs of the P990i. SE and UIQ3 don't look like a good combination.
But I read somewhere that Motorola has successfully implemented UIQ3 on a phone that has proven to be bug free. so what is SE doing wrong?
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And if SE is not careful, Moto will soon become the toast of UIQ3. For one, Moto put style into the Z8, acclaimed as a multimedia monster. The form factor of the Z8 also panders to the mass market - which is where real sales are. If Moto follows up strong, SE will be left wondering what it did wrong.
@mamba: I just checked the P1 Bug thread, and shockingly, it seems SE just added extra RAM to the P990i firmware and put it in a different body. People are reporting the same bugs as the P990 has minus the RAM issue. Does not sound good. But again, it may all depend on whether or not you can live with the bugs.
It is just a shame that people have to pay for 3 or 4 years of ongoing development the hard way and still get this. In contrast, I am yet to run into a bug with the E61i, as intense as I use it. That doesn't mean that one or two may not exist though, but I haven't hit one yet.
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Posted by 2tek
hey all, i went to starcoms office to get connected in IB, they dont have the data pack for the regular mobiles which i happen to buy from one of me friends, the data card they have in stock too is different, it is the rectangular one and my laptop uses the one that has a funny shape. whats with dem. so i gots to buy the table phone now
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Ahem...actually, I prefer to query the laptop manufacturers. Why change the format of their PCMCIA slots? Those odd-shaped cards are very scarce (as a matter of fact, I haven't met one person who has seen one, talkless of use it).
When buying a laptop, one of the things I check first is to make sure that the PCMCIA slot is the regular one. Saves me a lot of hassles later.
Your options:
1. Get a table top phone; or
2. Get a USB modem instead (usually a little more expensive than PCMCIA)
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Posted by 234hay
@ 2tek: Its most likely your laptop uses the newer ExpressCard slot.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard.The sad thing though is that its not backward compatible with existing PC Cards(as you've probably found out).
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Posted by bennie
hello guys. you guys are doing too well to keep this forum alive. special thanks to AYA, Areafather, Mamba, Coola, Ambu n the rest of you regular posters. good to be back.
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@bennie: welcome back. Thanks for mentioning my name, but others have done much more than I have to keep this thread alive, especially abubakar, ambyzown, coolapostle, mamba, angelgirl and brym!
Its only recently I got a bit more regular.
Posted by ambyzown
hey look who checked in after like two years. good to have you back bennie. how is abuja under yar adua?
guys the P1 is now available in lagos for a token price of N115k at dscl vi
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N115k for the P1i? What is wrong with SE's sense of pricing? I'll take d E61i over the P1i anyday, and the former cost about half that at launch! But what do I know?
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Posted by brym!
@AYA & pxt: That is just the price from an early stockist. If it sells for 93k (17.5% VAT inc) in Expansys UK it should sell for less here. I expect the price to drop to the range of 80 - 85k in less than 7 days as more suppliers receive thier stock. I even forsee a drastic price drop of the P1 due to expected slow sales as more people would rather wait to hear the experiences of early adopters to avoid the P990 disaster.
Meanwhile, the only other UIQ 3.1 device, the Motorola Z8 sells for 27k at Park and Shop, VI
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@brym!: Even Expansys' 93k is madness, IMO. I maintain that comparable (and in some cases more capable) devices sold for much less (almost half that cost) at launch.
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That's more like it for the Z8. I understand that without a touchscreen, the Z8 understandably costs much less, but that can't be the reason for the obscene difference in price. SE keeps shooting itself in the foot with its pricing. They certainly need to take another look at that.
Posted by Areafada
bennie thanks also for mentioning my name, but like aya said the growth of this thread are the little contributions from everybody, really if a soothsayer had told me that this thread will last this long i would ave doubted, but it has stood the test of time.
thanks to all contributors to this thread, big ups mates and keep the green white green flag flying.
Posted by brym!
Boy! I handled the HTC 4350 yesterday and I was so impressed with the compact size of this slim silder. The OS is WM5, though upgradable to WM6. Other features are more or less standard for similar WM devices.
The designs, finishing and functionality of HTC devices are commendable for a company that produced its first WM device just 4 years ago.
I really will love to see a Nokia or SE smartphone with similar form factor ie candy bar with a side-sliding qwerty keypad. And about time too for Nokia to enter the touch screen interface market and save Symbian's UIQ from imminent collapse.
Any WM device user here may want to check http://www.whoneedsaniphone.com to see this cute flashed-based UI the WM community is developing and testing.
Anyone interested in a fairly used WM5 device?
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Posted by mamba
@brym, what device, what is the price and current condition of the phone?
Posted by brym!
@ mamba: Treo 750 (WM5, 8 months ...N60k)
Cingular 8125( WM5, similar to i-mate K-Jam, 4 months ...N45k)
Phones are in good condition.
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Posted by Angelgirl
Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my nokia 1100 reltel landline, it discharges battery before 24hours, i tested it with a brand new original nokia battery, fully charged without use, the battery was totally discharged before the following day. What could be the problem?
Posted by abubakar
@angel: for how many hours did you make calls? if your phone was mainly on standby then something is wrong.