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234hay
Joined: Jan 23, 2007
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@ all:Hallo every1.It seems a lot of u seem to enjoy midnight chatting.
Anyhow,Starcomms is at it again,they are giving away CDMA 1X laptop cards for as N9,999 buundled with 24/7 internet access for 7days.Of course,its just for the Easter season.I suspect they want to get rid of their old CDMA 1X cards before maKing EVDO their default laptop card.Just like they did with their "low priced" mobiles.
@ mariwun:If you would be so kind,post the details for the N95.Wonder if the phone's GPS will be any use here... |
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mamba
Joined: Nov 21, 2004
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@aya, free midnight calls could be looked at in many ways. from operational perspective, it's a demand management technique to free up capacity during the daytime and utilize unused capacity during the night time. from marketing perspective, it helps you increase popularity (higher subscriber base) by reducing overpriced perception (in nigerian context). MTN probably needed the free midnight thing more than the other networks. but u see, market followership is also a powerful business & marketing strategy for a strategic group.
@mariwun, which does the phone have, LED or zenon flash?
how effective is the flash in total darkness?
how loud & clear is the sound from speakers?
what's your opinion on battery life?
is the phone stable enough, how many reboots so far? |
ambyzown
Joined: May 11, 2005
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@Coola: whats the big deal about Celtel copying MTN or Glo with free midnight calls, Family and friends, etc?
Remember Vmobile was the first to implement free SMS for its subscribers?
Remember Celtel was the first to offer lifetime access on its lines?
Who was the first to offer its subscribers free customer care calls?
I didn't hear you complain when MTN copied these features. |
OluYom
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On 2007-04-05 03:17:00, mamba wrote:
@aya, free midnight calls could be looked at in many ways. from operational perspective, it's a demand management technique to free up capacity during the daytime and utilize unused capacity during the night time. from marketing perspective, it helps you increase popularity (higher subscriber base) by reducing overpriced perception (in nigerian context). MTN probably needed the free midnight thing more than the other networks. but u see, market followership is also a powerful business & marketing strategy for a strategic group.
@mamba: Its obvious you are not reading me without bias. In none of my posts have I run down free midnight calls. Here is my stand again: free midnight calls is not the only way to achieve the objectives you have consistently fought for. I do not argue against free midnight calls.
While I have agreed with you that there is indeed a section of the Nigerian populace that find the free night thing attractive and "useful", it is quite useless and meaningless to the larger population who like normal people choose to sleep at night.
I argue against your stand that every network ought to implement it. That is just not right, as their are several strategic ways to achieve one business goal. The laws of market differentiation and USP (unique selling point) argue against your stand.
Example: In the banking sector, everybody is going Saturday banking. GTBank has chosen to implement technology (online banking, ATM etc) and chosen NOT TO do Saturday banking. Excellent. There is nothing wrong with that.
That is their own game plan. GTBank may not end up the largest bank in the country, but that does not matter. That may not be their goal. Why must we always look at everything from the perspective of "largest" subscribers and customers?
I appreciate the fact that Celtel has chosen to ape the other networks with the free night thing. But again, they did not have to.
If you still do not get it at this point, shall we just drop it? |
ambyzown
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Yea, I second that motion, lets drop it.
I cant wait to hear what Mariwun has to say about the almighty N95. Do the pictures look like those taken with a 5mp device?
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OluYom
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I wonder when the N95 will be available here. But I am more interested in the E61i and E90. Those are the guys I have my eyes on.
In the meantime, let's have Mariwun's user comments on the N95 please.
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mariwun
Joined: Jul 02, 2006
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hi everyone.will give a full review tonight...so far so good...it has only hung once and gave the message "not enough memory please close some applications". after i did everything was fine.flash is good in dark conditions.havent tested it in absolute darkness yet.havent even tried the gps will do later today...web browser is really impressive.will try larger websites(with a lot of content) later today |
ambyzown
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I would really like to see the E90 too, a communicator running on series 60? that would be interesting to use. I must say that Nokia is being more innovative and daring than  who seem content in rolling out one walkman phone or the other. It would be a delight to have an "communicator" with an I-mate form factor, running UIQ3
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OluYom
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On 2007-04-05 11:52:20, mariwun wrote:
hi everyone.will give a full review tonight...so far so good...it has only hung once and gave the message "not enough memory please close some applications".
With only 20mb free RAM available for running applications, you are likely to encounter that more often as you run heavy tasks and multiple applications.
I get that message too on my E61 from time to time when multi-tasking, especially with the heavier applications.
Why Nokia would implement only 20mb in a device like the N95 beats me. The E61 and E61i too have 20mb free RAM. Ordinarilly, I would be content with the E61i, but 20mb RAM? What would be the point of adding a still and video camera and RAM limitation stays the same? Even the much older N70 has 32MB, for crying out loud!
That's one more reason for me to gun for the E90, whose specs say 76mb free RAM. Then, hopefully, I can say goodbye to RAM limitations.
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coolapostle
Joined: Oct 15, 2004
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I am signing off for the weekend. Heading for the home town where I hope to sleep, watch as many DVD's as possble and chill out with my folks. No internet there so.... Wishing y'all a Happy Easter. |
abubakar
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@all: So I missed PNFs 500th page!!! who was 1st to get on it? you guys were too busy arguing Celtel palavar!!!
@AYA: And gradually, the people awake to the reality that there are better deals available with the CDMA operators. As I have said before, for day-to-day use, running a regular prepaid GSM line is economically suicidal.
Thats what i couldnt agree with. If you took the time to try the task i gave y'all you would see how tariff insensitive people can be. You cant say that FACT: NIGERIANS ARE NOT. You may not be. I am definitely not. But the pople I deal with day in day out trying to sell CDMA phones are in a majority that is far out weighing those who aren't. As long as most people can give the excuse for not using CDMA like " what of when i travel" (when they spend most of the year in one town, or "what if i want to change my phone" (when they dont change thier GSM phones that often) they have to be tagged as being tariff insensitive. The offers that the CDMA operators have been giving aren't new. CDMA has been cheaper for a long time and it hasnt made a dent in GSM growth.
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abubakar
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@coola: what happened to our photoes?
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OluYom
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On 2007-04-05 16:53:05, abubakar wrote:
@AYA: And gradually, the people awake to the reality that there are better deals available with the CDMA operators. As I have said before, for day-to-day use, running a regular prepaid GSM line is economically suicidal.
Thats what i couldnt agree with. If you took the time to try the task i gave y'all you would see how tariff insensitive people can be.
"Can be" is a different ball game from "are". Agreed, people can be insensitive. But most of the time, as I have explained, its ignorance.
Why, if people are so tariff insensitive, why do some of us claim here that every Tom, Dick and Harry are jumping on free night call freebies and free this and lower that?
How can you even suggest that too many Nigerians are tariff insensitive when many GSM subscribers own 2-3 lines for the sake of taking advantage of one freebie here and another there?
As said before, the PTO issue is due to past prejudices and info. Its a case of ignorance. Educate them and see the difference, as I have. Maybe its a location thing. Where I live, enlightenment is the order of the day. As the information filters, people do the logical thing and get lines from PTOs, whether for personal or business use.
There certainly exist Nigerians that are tariff-insensitive. But you cannot even hope to be accurate when you say "too many" Nigerians are so. How did you arrive at "too many" out of a country of 140million people? Provide your statistics please.
Still, I see your point about what I posted earlier. Permit me to re-phrase: "Fact: Nigerians are generally NOT tariff insensitive." That was what I meant to say; it came out wrong.
Nigerians may have prejudices that mean they esteem other factors above the price factor. But everything we see from day to day indicates that Nigerian are generally not tariff insensitive.
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mamba
Joined: Nov 21, 2004
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The E90 seems really interesting specwise. I also like the 5700 music phone too. Nokia has really been innovative and impressive with their range and latest releases. I hope they'll be offering a nice touch-screen very soon. |
OluYom
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On 2007-04-05 18:22:55, mamba wrote:
Nokia has really been innovative and impressive with their range and latest releases. I hope they'll be offering a nice touch-screen very soon.
No doubt about Nokia's new drive, though the Nokia-haters will continue bashing them (as the SE-haters will continue bashing SE for everything possible too).
A touchscreen from Nokia would be interesting. They experimented with one some time back but it never made a hit. I guess they just went back to what they were good at after that and got better 
PS: I used to be known as AYA |
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