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Let’s face it. Most of us would very much like to have the tons of hi-tech mobile devices that are hitting the market these days but only few us can afford the high prices they demand.
Refurbished mobile technology products are most certainly the way to go for most bargain shoppers.
Refurbished desktop computers and laptops help Dell US/UK to maintain their profit margin and now Apple US has decided to boost sales and revenue by opening a section of their US online store dedicated to the sales of refurbished iPads for a cheaper price than the brand new ones.
Discounts start with …

A few minutes ago, I got word via Mister Mobility that the Bolt Bowser was soon going to be no more and I verified this while trying to check my Google Adsense stats via the Bolt Browser For BlackBerry.
I got the following notice:
Dear BOLT User The free BOLT mobile browsing service will be discontinued. Unfortunately, the economic circumstances prevent us from running a free service going forward. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your loyalty and support. The BOLT Team
Looks like moves to monetize the free mobile browser hasn’t …

Over the last month or so there have been increasing reports of mobile technology apps aimed at replacing the need for consumers carrying the traditional wallet and credit card and instead loading all of that information into your smartphone.
Google is one of the ringleaders of this new venture, and has been slowly trying to phase out the Google Checkout option in favor of the newer Google Wallet app.
However, as cutting-edge as this technology is, not very many retailers seem to be jumping ship from the more traditional methods of payment, despite the ease with which consumers can make purchases …

A few years back internet services in Nigeria were pretty expensive and widely limited to the cybercafés and post offices but as time went by and the GSM operators introduced us to the world of mobile telecommunications, internet availability came to expand and at the same time, the price began to drop.
Today most Nigerians can boast of internet access even if it’s just the free browsing data allowance offered by select networks like MTN, GLO and ETISALAT on their internet enabled mobile phones.
Internet packages now vary from hourly, daily and weekly packages to monthly packages and cheap as the …

The year 2011 is coming to an end and marks the year the Finland mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, delved into the dual SIM mobile phone market with the release of the Nokia C2-00, Nokia Asha 200 (which I love ’cause it comes with a QWERTY keypad) and the Nokia C2-03 (Dual SIM with Touchscreen).
In time for the holiday shopping season, they’ve released probably their last dual sim phone for the year; the Nokia X2-02 Dual SIM Standby which features a 240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches TFT display, Easy SIM swap, 2 megapixel camera, FM Radio and microSD slot expandable …

Downloading files off the internet can be a sweet experience if the right conditions are met such as hi-speed internet connection and download resume capability.
Unfortunately this isn’t always so as the experience could be ruined by slow servers and download links with expiry dates/time i.e. if the download isn’t completed with a specified number of minutes/hours/days, the link would expire and you’d have to start all over again from the beginning.
Transferring files you wish to download from the source server to another server that supports resume downloads and has no expiry date limits would be your best option in …

Close to a month ago, Opera Mini 6.5 was released for most major mobile platforms, with the Blackberry OS not excluded. Unfortunately some blackberry subscribers had issues installing the application on their devices and on further investigation, it was revealed that Opera Mini was also consuming our call credit instead of using the BlackBerry Internet Service subscription.
Considering the fact that I had used Opera Mini for Blackberry flawlessly while on Globacom Nigeria’s BlackBerry Plan, I made the conclusion (backed by reports from Etisalat customer care reps) that Opera Mini just wasn’t compatible with the Etisalat Nigeria’s BlackBerry Plans thus I …

Ever heard a lovely movie soundtrack or heard a song in the mall and wondered who sang the song and how you can order for it stat? Well we all have and so have the guys at Shazam Entertainment Limited who in collaboration with 7Digital music offer BlackBerry users the ability to detect the artist and song title of just about any track in world.
Shazam Encore makes up 9 premium apps which Research In Motion is offering all BlackBerry subscribers worldwide in compensation for the not too recent 3 day lapse in service.
Its function is pretty simple: You launch the …

A few weeks back, rumors had it that MTN Nigeria was about to launch their own version of the increasingly popular BlackBerry Complete with a measly 200MB monthly data allowance for a whooping N1,500.
Despite public outcry, the nutjobs went ahead and released it to the public a few days back and boys (especially me) are not smiling at all.
For N1,500 a month or N500 a week with 200MB and 50MB data allowance respectively, MTN Nigeria’s BlackBerry Complete Plans offer you the following:

The ability to create and use only one (1) BlackBerry email address (i.e. username@mtnnigeria.blackberry.com).
Full integration and use of only …

I’ve been having a quite a hard time downloading the latest official version of BlackBerry’s Desktop Software which amongst other functions, helps you to backup and restore your BlackBerry data as well as connect to the internet using your BlackBerry as a modem.
Just like when I downloaded BlackBerry OS 6 and upgraded my Curve 3G, the download speed is incredibly slow and just doesn’t support resume download.
Luckily for me, OpenSourceBB just released the beta version of BlackBerry Desktop Software 7 and they were kind enough as to host the file on their servers
The download using UC Browser / …

Rumors have it that BlackBerry subscribers in Nigeria are set to pass the 1 million mark and Etisalat Nigeria has awoken from its slumber and further widened its range of BlackBerry services with the launch of the BlackBerry Complete Plan and BlackBerry Voice Plan.
Following the recent erratic nature of the Glo BlackBerry Service here in Sokoto, I switched to the Etisalat Network on their N3,000 BlackBerry Internet Service bundle plan in hopes of better service but the opposite has been the same.
Opera Mini simply doesn’t work on their network and going on a week now, the BlackBerry default browser as …

Actually cable providers already have brought TV to the tablet. You only have to watch your favorite station to realize that: every second ad break there are about nine million adverts telling you that you can now get your favorite programmes wherever you want, whenever you want, however you want. That’s right – you can even get them on your phone.
The technology that allows this to happen is driven by the spiraling speeds of internet connectivity – which now powers the provision of TV online, on mobile devices and on your traditional TV set. Modern cable providers offer deals …

Chinese telecommunications equipment and services company, Huawei Technologies in collaboration with Sprint USA have repackaged their budget android smartphone, the Huawei Boulder U8350 and tagged it Express For Sprint.
With a foam like QWERTY keypad like that of the LG X330T, this slab-like mobile device comes with a 320 x 240 pixels, 2.6 inches capacitive touchscreen, GPRS/EDGE/3.5G/Wi-Fi hotspot internet connectivity and a 3.2 megapixel camera.
The original Boulder is known to have a processor speed of about 528 MHz but the guys at Pocket Now seem to think that this might have been bumped up to 600MHz not to mention its feature …

It is a well known fact that using a myriad of apps available from the BlackBerry App World, you could turn your Blackberry phone into a flashlight for emergency purposes/situations. Unfortunately this torchlight functionality was restricted to only BlackBerry smartphones like the BlackBerry Bold 9700 whose camera had an LED flash. In other words, for these BlackBerry torchlight apps to work, your device camera has to come with flash.
Taking into consideration the BlackBerry series of phones without a camera flash, Mindivia created the Reading Light app which makes use of your BlackBerry’s backlight and a series of actual images of …

As more and more digital media and storage equipment manufacturers move on from hard disk drives to solid state drives, Plextor LLC in keeping up with the pace has announced the availability of their new range of SSDs tagged, the M3S series to the buying public.
Coming in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities and priced at $200, $350 and $700 respectively with an extended five-year ironclad warranty, they will feature Plextor’s True speed, Bad Block Management, Global Wear Leveling and Instant Restore technologies as well disk cloning, disk backup and disk analysis software.
One of the cool things about this series of …

Days ahead of the ever popular Black Friday sales rush, T-Mobile USA has declared this coming Saturday, November 19, Magenta Saturday.
On this day, major 4G smartphones/tablets such as the HTC Amaze™ 4G, Samsung Galaxy S II™, HTC Radar™ 4G, BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 and the T-Mobile G-Slate will be on sale for just $49.99 while LG’s myTouch® Q, Samsung Exhibit II™ and Dell Streak 7 will go for $0.00 all after a mail-in rebate card.
Newbies to the network are expected to hook on to a qualifying two-year agreement with any T-Mobile Unlimited Value™ plans while old customers must have spent like …

The much anticipated first in a series of Nokia Windows smartphone to come, the Nokia Lumia 800, is now available to the public via Vodafone UK with awesome bonuses such as £60 worth of vouchers spread over 6 months and redeemable at Amazon.co.uk for the first 10,000 orders as well as 3 months of free mobile internet.
For now, Vodafone UK is only selling the black version while the cyan(blue) version is in pre-order phase. Interested parties can get it free of charge but will be required to sign a 2 year, £36 contract that offers 600 minutes, unlimited texts and …

Just when I thought that Facebook was only getting dedicated love from mobile phones, Hewlett-Packard (HP) goes and releases a new wireless mouse that works via Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth and comes complete with a dedicated Facebook button
With a super sexy curvy design and rubber side grip, the HP X7000 is one wi-fi mouse that was most certainly created with maximum comfort in mind thereby minimizing wrist injuries from continuous usage.
The scroll wheel which this computer peripheral is generally known to come with, has been expertly replaced with a beautiful touch-sensitive scroll button while adding six buttons that can be …

UPDATE: BlackBerry Curve 9380 Features and Specifications and BlackBerry Bold 9790 Features and Specifications
Over the past few months, BlackBerry’s affordable Curve series has undergone expansion to include the Curve 9350, Curve 9360 and Curve 9370 all running on the shiny new BlackBerry OS 7 platform.
RIM has just announced that before the year runs out, they will be releasing the BlackBerry Curve 9380 which will be the first Curve model that’s all touchscreen and no QWERTY keyboard.
The BlackBerry Curve 9380 will thus feature a highly responsive and brilliant 3.2-inch, 480 x 360 resolution display with 5MP camera. Detailed specs are yet …

UK Mobile Virtual Network Operator, GiffGaff, recently announced that that it will soon be supporting BlackBerry services on its O2 supported cellular network starting from November 24th 2011.
The monthly service which will allegedly be priced at a comfortable £3 will allow Blackberry subscribers on the network, access to BlackBerry Messenger, BlackBerry Email and Internet. Unfortunately the BlackBerry plan can not work solo and will have to be added unto one of GiffGaff’s cost effective prepaid phone plans starting from £10 a month for 250 UK minutes, Unlimited UK texts, Unlimited Internet and Free giffgaff – giffgaff calls.
GiffGaff’s prepaid plans are …