All About Smartphones

Internet is here to stay in Nigeria and more people are joining the internet world daily in this precious country Nigeria. One problem though is that, the cost of accessing the Internet is high and not too fast in this part of the world. Consequently, some people are reluctant to stay on the internet or use it to increase business reach. Well, Airtel Nigeria and Google have teamed up to offer a small simple solution to at least try to cushion the effect of high internet cost. This they have done by jointly initiating a cost free access to the internet. This was tagged as the 'Free Zone' Program. Free Zone aim is to empower more people to have access to the internet and also encourage new folks to join the internet world for no cost. To gain access to this free zone, one is expected to text 'Free Zone' to 881 or navigate to this URL http://g.co/freezone or www.freezone.google.com on a mobile phone browser. Have tried it on two smartphones an...

1st of December, Airtel announced to its subscribers that her BIS packages working on non BB phones would be blocked and disabled on the 2nd of December. Well, it does seem that Airtel have started blocking the BIS for non BB phones today. This is being carried out in phases. Airtel started disabling the ability for one to browse on non BB phones using BIS subscription at 6:20am today as reported by a number of people. Already, some users can't connect to the internet anymore. However, some can still connect to the internet using the BIS package. This only suggest that in matters of time, everyone using such package on a non BB phone will be unable to access the internet except the SIM is put in a BlackBerry device. Many questions have been put forward, but the one that is most frequently asked is that; Will my subscription just end like that even if i still have days to go? The answer to that is that, your subscription won't end. The BIS package wi...

Airtel have decided that come 3rd of December 2013, Airtel BIS packages will stop functioning on non BlackBerry phones. The original message from Airtel sent as a SMS reads thus: Airtel: Dear Customer, effective 3rd Dec 2013  AIRTEL BB Plans will cease to function on non BB devices or used as a modem . Thank you.  This means that if you have an Android phone, iPhone, iPad, Nokia phones, tablets and so on and you subscribe to the Airtel BIS plans to browse on these devices, your Internet won't be activated. Also, we do not know if hotspot may be deactivated just like Etisalat did with their BIS package. This is not a very encouraging or good news at all seeing how affordable the BIS plan have been for BlackBerry smartphone and how ripped off it has been for other non BlackBerry smartphones. Only BlackBerry smartphone will work with the BIS packages. Not cool. Please be wise and do not subscribe to this BIS packages on your non BlackBerry phon...

Update Often times we need to recharge our Internet subscription, either normal data bundle or BIS bundle but can't remember the short code to do so. With telecoms guys always changing their plans and codes, its important to have a place where one can quickly check these codes without having to navigate to their individual websites. Below is a list of data bundle codes, prices, data limit and duration for MTN, GLO, AIRTEL and ETISALAT . I made them in image format so that you can save the image file and consult anytime you need to know these plans. MTN DATA BUNDLE   MTN BIS BUNDLE (BB10 & BB OLD)  GLO DATA AND BIS BUNDLES Plan Name Service Rental Data Cap Validity Period Code SMS to 127 Target Device Instant Surf N100 20MB 24 hours *127*51# ‘51’ Handset Smallie N200 50MB 3 days ...

Its not news that people are always looking for ways to browse for free on their Android devices given that exploitation from the telecoms are on the increase and always looking for ways to shell out cash form the customers pocket. Well, there is a way to keep at least some part of these cash inside our pocket and that is with the help of droidvpn and it works with most networks (etisalat, airtel, glo and most importantly mtn). Note 1: this has been tested on a SIM with active mtn bis and works fine. Therefore am to believe that it should work for other networks. Procedures 1. Go to www.droidvpn.com and sign up, very easy. 2. Go to your email account you used to register droidvpn and click on the link to activate it 3. Go to Google Play Store and Download Droidvpn to your device. 4. Now launch Droidvpn you just downloaded, put your email and password and click on Save my login details 5. Go to Settings at the top right corner 6. Click on Connec...

Christmas just came early this year for my Nigerian peeps, thanks to the partnership between Nokia and Airtel. Nokia and Airtel partnership have given birth to a wonderful program that bring good news to interested people. The news is that you can swap any of your old functioning Nokia phone for a new Nokia Lumia 520 smartphone which is currently selling for N28,000. For example, bring a good functioning Nokia 3310 and collect a new Nokia Lumia 520 smartphone.  How does it work? Well, the process if pretty simple. 1.  All you have to do is take your good functioning old Nokia phone of any kind to any Airtel outlet nationwide,  2. Drop N23,990  3. Collect a brand new Nokia Lumia 520 smartphone.  More Goodies What is even more sweet about this offer is that you can swap as many old Nokia phones for equal amount of Nokia Lumia 520 smartphones. Icing on The Cake Like icing on a cake to give more flavour, so also Airtel have decid...