Mobile

We all are now currently aware of the NGN1.04 trillion fine ($5.2 billion) that was imposed on MTN by the NCC over failure to disconnect unregistered users from its network after the SIM registration deadline had closed. MTN has now announced that its CEO is currently in talks with the board of NCC on a ground of lighter terms as regards the fine. From the time when NCC has announced the ban, MTN were give only up to the 16th of November to come up with the money for the fine settlement and MTN hopes to get something done before then. This issue of fine has already done a lot to negatively affect the business of MTN as billions has already been deleted from their overall market worth. That is not all as since Monday, MTN's stock has been rapidly dropping so fast that the last time they h...

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN), in a bid to understand the rationale and judicial backing that were involved in the National Communications Commission (NCC)'s decision to hand over the voice data of some private citizens to the security agencies, has written a letter under the backing of the Freedom of Information (FOI) initiative to the nation's telecoms regulator. The need for this letter was borne out of recent knowledge coming to light that on account of suspicious activity, NCC has handed over the data of some customers over various networks to security agencies to look into. This knowledge was brought to light on the 16th of October when the Vice Chairman of the NCC in person of Umar Danbatta said at the International Trade Fair held in Abuja (and reported by ThisDay newspaper pr...

It shouldn't be news at all to anyone here who has been an ardent reader and follower of this awesome technological space that Samsung has been building its own processor (Exynos technology) for a while now and they're getting pretty good at their job in the process, even using the highly efficient 14nm process. New reports have however showed up to suggest that Samsung is developing a new and much more powerful Exynos processor that would run in its yet-to-come Samsung Galaxy S7 device. This processor chip, Exynos 8890, would be mass-produced and also feature a custom CPU that would be designed by Samsung itself, which reports have named to be M1. It is also the reported that the chips would be mass produced at Samsung's Giheung plant as early as December. Earlier reports have suggested...

The Gionee M3 Mini device as the name implies, is the mini version of the Gionee M3 device that would be for the lower budget smartphone users. Announced sometimes earlier this year, the device was finally launched from the Stable of Gionee on the 12th of October, and we have it in Nigeria also. With the launch came the full spec sheet of the device from the manufacturer and below is the total specs the device carries. Out of the box would see you facing a 4.5 inch device that has its resolution set at 480 x 854 pixels and 195 ppi. The screen is protected by LCD capacitive touchscreen technology too. Going further down into the hood of the device, it comes with a processor clocked at a speed of 1 GHz all running on four codes. The processor is of the MediaTek MT6736M and is a total 6...