SystemSpecs has recently unveiled the full feature of the remit a app. The new app will help Nigerians take full control of their finance especially in the area of payment with a smartphone. The app will be able to do tasks such as managing various bank accounts, settle all kinds of bills through the app and take control of personal finances.

According to Nigeria Communications Week, the Remita app is available in Android and iOS devices. Among other things, it can protects users from fraud. The app allow users share QR codes to make payments via email, whatapps, just to mention a few.

“Remita App places so much power in the hands of users by making it much easier and faster for them to manage their accounts across various banks and settle bills, on-the-go, it is particularly exciting that so much can be done from the comfort of their mobile device, without needing any other mobile app, any token, or visiting any bank branch.” said John Obaro, Managing Director of SystemSpecs.
Read more: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/systemspecs-released-full-features-of-remita-app.html

The Techno Phantom 6 was released in the year 2016. It was preceded by the Tecno Phantom 5 and succeeded by Techno Phantom 6 Plus. The device is more cool than the Techno Phantom six. It has the latest camera in town along with a dual camera feature. It is among the first smart phones to have the dual camera which is now common this year with all latest high end smartphones. You can buy it for the price range of N70,000 to N120,000 in Nigeria.

Buy Phones and Tablets from Konga.

Internal Features

The devise comes with a system-on-chips from MediaTek. The Internal storage of 32GB ROM can store up to 5,120 pieces of songs in mp3 format or 20 HD movies. The battery capacity is at 2700 mAh. The 2.0 GHz Octa-core processor on 64Bit Architecture makes the phone 28% faster and 40% low battery consumption when compared with it's predecessor.

Buy Phones and Tablets from Jumia.

External Features

Main looking at the device will give you a feel that you have not felt for your entire life. The smartphone is made from metals with 6.15mm ultra slim bezel. A 5.5 inches FDH display on 180° viewing angle, 100% colour gamut and 60,000:1 contrast ratio is no joke. The screen also has a Corning Gorilla Glass 3. At the bottom corner of the phone are two speakers in between the charging port. On top of the device is a earphone port. Furthermore, at the right hand corner of the gadget are the volume button and the on/off sleep/wake button. The lefthand corner you will find the sim stray.

The rear view gives you the most interesting feature of this high end smartphone. There is a dual rear camera, placed vertically on the device. The first one on top is 13MP camera and the next one is 5MP camera with true tone flash light.

Specifications

Dimension: Height is 151.5mm, breadth is 75.5mm and thickness 6.15mm. The weight information is not provided.

Colours: It has two colours Champagne Gold and Star Grey

Display: 5.5 inches with FHD Amoled display with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution.

Operating System: It runs on HiOS v1.1.0, based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. But can be upgraded to Android 7.0 Naugat. The CPU is 2.0 GHz octa-core Mediatek MT6755. The GPU information is not available.

Camera: There is dual rear camera. 13MP and 5MP with true tone flash. And a Front-facing camera of 8MP.

Storage: Internal memory of 3GB RAM and an internal storage of 32GB ROM. There is also space for external storage of up to 128GB.

Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0. Network connections are 2G (GSM/CDMA), 3G and 4G LTE. There is dual micro sim slot and a type C USB connector.

Battery: 2,700 mAh battery capacity.

Security: Iris Scanner.

Voice Assistant : No

Read it here: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/tecno-phantom-6-features-specifications-price-lagos-nigeria.html

The largest social media platform, Facebook has introduces a video showing segment in its' social network site. This new product is now available to a limited group of people in the US and
Facebook plans to make it available for all video creators soon. Well, this is not the first time Facebook will be include a video tab.

According to David Danker, Director of Facebook product, Facebook discovered that users "want a dedicated place they can go to watch videos. That’s why last year we launched the Video tab in the U.S., which offered a predictable place to find videos on Facebook. Now we want to make it even easier to catch up with shows you love."

"Our goal is for Watch to be a platform for all creators and publishers to find an audience, build a community of passionate fans, and earn money for their work," says Facebook.

As a result, Facebook "Watch" is introduced. The platform will be made "available on mobile, on desktop and laptop, and in our TV apps." Also, there will be a "show page" platform on Facebook so that users will be able to understand what a video is about, watch several episode and connect with community.

Read More here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/there-is-now-vedio-show-called-watch-facebook.html

Nigeria Internet Network Association, NiRA along with two of it's accredited domain registry in Nigeria were at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI event at EKO Hotel and Suites in VI Lagos. The event was
the 3rd edition of the Information Communication Technology Expo, ICTEL, Expo 2017. And was held from 25th to 27th of July 2017.

NiRA with the two accredited domain registry showcase the .ng domains in the Expo. The ICTEL Expo gave NiRA the opportunity to "enlighten visitors about the .ng brand which also gave the registrars the opportunity to promote their various packages."

Chief Dr. Mrs. Nike Akande, the President of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Barr. Adebayo Shittu, Hon. Minister of Science and Technology; Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Hon. Commissioner Lagos State Ministry of Science and Technology; Mr. Olufemi Odubiyi, where among those present at the Expo, along with members of LCCI, exhibitors and various visitors.

NiRA is the body responsible for accrediting domain registry firms in Nigeria. All Country Code for Top Level Domain, ccTLD, are made available by ...

Read More http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/nira-showcase-ng-domains-at-lcci-tech-expo.html

African Network Information Center, AFRINIC and Nigerian Internet Registration Association, NiRA are set to hold public policy meeting on the 27th of November to
2nd of December 2017. The meeting will be tag #AFRINIC27, #Lagos and #Nigeria. Those interested in the event can register for it through there portal.

The event was previously held in Mauritius last year with 250 delegates from 48 countries. The event is usually held yearly and includes topics of discussions such as "keynote speeches, policy discussions, seminars, workshops, tutorials and other forums for sharing ICT knowledge within the African region."

The press released statement to the event is shown in the photo below. Interested stakeholders can now register for the event and can apply to give speeches and lectures at the event.

Read it here: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/african-and-global-internet-stakeholders-hold-public-policy-meeting-lagos.html

It is likely possible that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 may also have an internal storage of 256GB (for at least in South Korea) and may cost $1,200 which is approximately N432,000. This is was a popular Samsung Galaxy tech leaker Roland Quandt revealed in his twitter account and was posted on /leak, a popular tech leaks platform.

But that isn't all the leaks for yesterday. Also, three photos of the possible Galaxy Note 8 was also leaked on the platform. Read More: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/galaxy-note-8-may-have-internal-storage-256gb.html

Apple stocks have hit $800 billion in the Q2 report. If Apple continues this way, it's shares may hits 1 trillion after it released it's flagship smartphone the iPhone 8. Apple will be using the iPhone 8 to celebrates ten years of manufacturing the iPhone series. Its commence production of the phone since June 2007.

Apple financial report, as posited by Techcrunch, sent it's share up to 5 percent increase instantly. Apple shares has risen by 30 percent before the released of its financial statement.

Read it here: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/apple-stocks-hit-800-billion.html

Flutterwave, a Fintech startup, co-owned by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, who is also the CEO has raised $10 million from US investors. Aboyeji who owned the Fintech alongside with Andela was among those Nigerians trained by Y Combinator in the US.

Greycroft Partners and Green Visor, Glynn Capital, and Y combinator were among the investors that provided the loan.

Flutterwave has only existed for one year and had succeeded in processing payments worth US$1.5 billion in 14 million transactions. Though it has it's head office in San Francisco, USA, the Fintech startup has offices in some Africa countries including Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, Johannesburg and it is planning to expand further across the African Continent in 2017.

CNN Money reported Adeyeji on 31st July saying ...
Read it here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/fintech-startup-flutterwave-raised-10-million-series-a.html

Nigeria popular ecommerce store Jumia has continue to rank top among all websites in Nigeria for a one-month period at Alexa ranking platform, except for naij that ranked 7th to be the most popular Nigerian website. Alexa is a ranking platform that ranks all websites in the globally and locally.

Jumia rank has remain top 8 in it's local ranking-that is-Nigeria since it begins it's campaign on it's 5th year anniversary. Globally, it has ranked 1,160. It's closest competitor is far backward, ranking 22 locally and 4,290 globally. It's closest competitor Konga ranked 22 locally and 4,290 globally. Very far-off from Jumia. This you can see from a snapshot from Alexa website. Read On http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/08/jumia-alexa-ranking-remains-top-months-now.html

Nigerian telecommunications internet subscribers reaches a new peak of more than 91million. Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, has reported yesterday the number of internet subscribers in Nigeria.

The figure stands at at 91,598,757 GSM subscribers for June, 2017. However, the figure for May stands at 91,565,010. This is an increase of additional 33,747 subscribers many of whom may have started using internet services, many of which may have opt out from internet services and later on continues it or may have switch brand. This is for telcos that are in the GSM industry. For the CDMA's, that is, Visafone and Multilinks their subscribers are 30,309. The CDMA industry do not witness any variations. Adding both figures together give a total of 91,598,757.

The increase is also as a result of variations to the number of internet subscribers of the six telecommunication companies in Nigeria. MTN gets the highest number of internet subscribers with 31,691,070. Despite the Phonophobia issues between Nigeria and South Africa, MTN subscribers soar more in June with an increase of 284,629 subscribers.

Etisalat have the lowest internet subscribers with just a figure of 12,549,596. The number of subscribers on their internet services dropped accounting to the report. A negative value of 293,828 subscribers switched brand. The May figure was 12,843,424. What brand did the subscribers switch to?

Brand switching is very common in the telecom industry as many uses more than one network provider. Therefore, immediately a telco stop their promotion many subscribers will switch to the next brand.

Read On here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/nigerian-telecom-internet-subscribers-reaches-91million.html

Date of sale for LG V30 Leaked
The proposed date for the sale of LG new flagship phablet has been revealed today. /Leaks posted this today stating that the smartphone will be available for sale on September in South Korea. The device will not be available globally until September 28 this year.

LG a South Korea electronics company is expected to launch the LG V30 flagship on 31st August, 2017. The device is rumoured to have the ability to support Google Daydreamer, a VR gadget from Google.

Read from here: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/date-of-sale-for-lg-v30-leaked.html

Information reaching me is that Innjoo has released it's Fire 4 series to the Middle East and Kenya. If you leave in Kenya or any country in the Middle East you can now buy this Innjoo smartphone.

In the Middle East you can buy it from Souq.com Moreover, in Kenya, you can buy it from Jumia Kenya.

The device cost 600sar in the Middle East and KSh10,000 in Kenya. Some of it's features are 5 inches HD IPS Display, Android 7.0 Nougat, Dual SIM + 4G Network support, 16GB ROM, 2GB RAM, 13MP and 5MP rear dual cameras, 5MP Front camera and 2500mAh battery. The dual camera is only available to Innjoo Fire 4 Plus.

Read from here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/innjoo-fire-4-now-available-kenya-middle-east.html

In 27th of July, 2017, Google CEO Sundar Pichai came to Lagos for the Google for Nigeria event. He was interviewed by a Nigerian female journalist Adesuwa Onyenokwe. Google CEO revealed nine progresses the tech company they have made in their products and features in Nigeria. This includes YouTube where many Nigerians watch comedy, music and other videos, Search and Maps.

The nine progresses made by Google are in areas involving Digital Skills, nonprofit grants, launchpad accelerator for Africa, YouTube Go, Lagos features in Google Map, faster web result, more information in search result page including post on Google, Knowledge panels and Health cards.

Sundar Pichai stated, "the things we’re announcing today are what drive us—building platforms and products that are relevant and useful for billions, not just the few, and helping people to succeed in the digital economy. That’s why we hope to equip more people, in Africa and elsewhere, with digital skills and tools. We’re excited to be part of Africa’s evolving digital story."

Read More http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/google-revealed-nine-progresses-made-google-for-news-event.html

In the business world there is a saying that the consumer is the king. So, it is in the tech world. Consumer is still the king till tomorrow. And tomorrow never ends. Many of us in Nigeria always faces issues with our Telecommunication service providers. After calling their customer care line, to rectify the problem, most times we are not satisfied with the reply from this telcos.

For example, I may recharge my sim card with a certain amount of money and before I know it this telco guy will immediately deduct my money for no just reasons. I knew I am not alone in this, you too probably may be facing similar situation.

If that is the case your problem is almost over, as telcos regulator in Nigeria, known as Nigeria Telecommunications Commission has come up with a way of dealing with it. The NCC wants to ensure that Telcos consumers have value for their money and also ensure that they are satisfied with whatever brand of telecommunication service provider they use.

To learn more on how to go about complaints to Telecom service provider, please click this link here or better still I can tell you how you can go about it anytime you are greived with your telco. I read it from that same link so, it very reliable.

What you need to do, first of all, is to call your telco provider through their service provider. Nomally these telcos should satisfied your complaint. However, if you are not satisfy with them then you should proceed to filling up the form on this Link or call 622 NCC toll free line. Ensure that you have the complain ticket number.

How do you get a complain ticket number? Quite easy! Anytime you talk to your telco customer care agent, at the end of the call, they will send you an SMS telling you that your complaint has being resolve. In that text message you will see your complaints ticket number. This is the number you will use to fill up your complaint with the commission. Believe me NCC is serious on this they will immediately resolved the issue.

That is how simple it is. So, now you can deal with your Telco, if they fail to provide worthy services. More so, those text messages you receive that you do not need. Can be dealt with now. In case you don't know. All you need to do is to send "STOP" to 2442 to activate the DO NOT DISTURB service or send "HELP" to 2442 to select the type of messages you prefer to receive.

As for me, I send STOP to 2442 and after two days I wasn't disturb anymore. So choose which one favour you. That all for now until I have something else to tell you.

Read it here: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/how-to-submit-complaint-to-ncc-if-not-satisfied-telecom-service-provider.html

Nokia 2 leaks online by Geekbench see photos and specs

here is possibility that Nokia 2 may be launch soon as its got some ranking at Geekbench this week. Nokia 8, Nokia flagship phablet has been confirmed and ready for launch. Immediately an electronic gadget passes through Geekbench ranking, in a few months the device will be ready for launch.

According to the info reviewed on Geekbench, the Nokia 2 should come with Android 7.1.1 Operating system. A Quad core 1.27 GHz processor. It will also have a system-on-chip from Qualcomm Snapdragon.

Read More here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/nokia-2-leaks-online-by-geekbench-photos-specs.html

Nokia 2 leaks online by Geekbench see photos and specs

here is possibility that Nokia 2 may be launch soon as its got some ranking at Geekbench this week. Nokia 8, Nokia flagship phablet has been confirmed and ready for launch. Immediately an electronic gadget passes through Geekbench ranking, in a few months the device will be ready for launch.

According to the info reviewed on Geekbench, the Nokia 2 should come with Android 7.1.1 Operating system. A Quad core 1.27 GHz processor. It will also have a system-on-chip from Qualcomm Snapdragon.

Read More here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/nokia-2-leaks-online-by-geekbench-photos-specs.html

BUA Group, Virgin Mobile, Vodacom, Others in quest to takeover 9Mobile

Last Wednesday a popular telco in Nigeria, Etisalat, change it name to 9Mobile. As a result all accounts relating to Etisalat also changed to 9Mobile. Including, Facebook, twitter and the likes. But that is not the end of it. The company is till owing the $1.2 billion that was syndicated from 13 local banks.

Read more: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/bua-virgin-mobile-vodacom-takeover-9mobile.html

Last Wednesday a popular telco in Nigeria, Etisalat, change it name to 9Mobile. As a result all accounts relating to Etisalat also changed to 9Mobile. Including, Facebook, twitter and the likes. But that is not the end of it. The company is till owing the $1.2 billion that was syndicated from 13 local banks.

BUA Group, Virgin Mobile, Vodacom are among to top telecom companies on the quest to takeover the company. According to Daily post Nigeria, the $1.2 billion loan is the number one priority the new management of the 9Mobile will use as a criteria for it's bid by this telecommunications firm.

Read More here: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/bua-virgin-mobile-vodacom-takeover-9mobile.html

New Leak: Photo of LG v30 depicting Rear view

LG V30 is getting more leaks by the day as the day of it's launched approaches. Earlier, the smartphone was discovered in Geekbench. Now the rear view of it has been leaked at /leaks yesterday.

The rear view photo as seen above render the device to have dual rear camera, a flashlight and a fingerprint scanner at the rear. Previous leak show that the LG V30 that the device will come with Android 7 Nougat. However, the size of the camera is not yet known to me.

Read More: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/new-leak-photo-lg-v30-depicting-rear-view.html

Samsung electronics has confirmed the date it will released its latest gadgets in the second half of 2017. August 23th is the date. It will be held in New York City at the Park Avenue Armoury centre.

You may recall that the date to launched Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has been predicted to be either in September or in August. A reason why it was believed that the tech giant would launched its products in August was to beat competition from Google and Apple which may be launching their products in September.

Read More Here: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/confirmed-samsung-launched-galaxy-23-august.html

Infinix Smart now available in Nigeria

The latest Infinix Smartphone, Infinix smart has hit the Nigeria market. The gadget was released earlier this week in Infinix mobility website. That is, July 2017. Infinix Nigeria has confirmed that the device is now available for sale in Nigeria at all Infinix outlet.

This is the twitter tweet that unveiled it.

The Infinix smart is an emodiment of diversity and style. Visit any Iinfinix outlet to get yours. Retweet. #BeSmart #BeYou pic.twitter.com/QFMPXkrPLe
— Infinix Nigeria (@InfinixNigeria) July 21, 2017
The price for the mobile phone is not yet known to me. I could not find...

Read more here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/infinix-smart-available-nigeria.html

The Nokia 8 smartphone has got more leaks today by /leaks ahead of launch. In a previous post, you may recall that the Nokia 8 will be launched on July 31st this year. The phone will be Nokia's first high-end smartphone. Lovers of Nokia are certainly waiting for this device to be available in the market.

The rumours so far stated that the Nokia 8 will has an OS of Android 7.1 Nougat. The system-on-chip will be from Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. It is also expected to have 13MP dual camera from Carl Zeiss Optics.

Read more here: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/nokia-8-gets-more-photos-leaks.html

Payment giants in Nigeria, Interswitch and Visa Nigeria has an introduced a new payment system called mVisa. The payment system was launched yesterday at EKO Hotel Lagos. The aim of introducing the payment system was to avoid to use of cash and card.

Welcome to #TheNewWayToPay mVisa got you covered on payments for transactions. #Switchon #paywithMvisa #convenientsolution
— Interswitch Group (@InterswitchGRP) July 20, 2017

Read more: http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/nigeria-payment-giants-introduces-mvisa.html

Innjoo a mobile phone producer company is planning to released a new smartphone called Fire 4Plus. Although, the date of launch is not yet known, the mobile phone company posted on it's twitter account that the phone will be available soon.

Some of the features that Innjoo made known with respect to the phone is that it will have a System-on-chip fro MediaTek, the CPU will be Octa-core processor on a Android 7.0 Nougat. The cameras according to Innjoo, are 13MP and 5MP dual Rear camera, 5.5 inches screen with a FHD IPS 5 touch technology.

Read more here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/innjoo-launch-new-smartphone.fire-4plus.html

LG V30 Unveiled at Geekbench to come with 4GB RAM

LG V30 phablet was spotted at Geekbench yesterday. The result from the Geekbench listing revealed that the device will come with a internal memory of 4GB RAM. The chiset is from Qualcomm Snapdragon. The motherboard as shown in the listing is msm8998.

The phablet will have an operating system of Android 7.1.2 at a ... Read more here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/lg-v30-unveiled-at-geekbench-to-come.html

New Xiaomi MI 5X Photos Leaked + may be launch soon-Technologywatch Nigeria
http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/new-xiaomi-mi-5x-photos-leaked.html

Samsung Bixby voice assistance is now available in US English. This version can now be downloaded in USA and Korea. You may recall that Bixby was having issues with T-Mobile carrier recently. However, the tech giant has resolved the issues.

Users of Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8Plus in Korea and US can now get the new Bixby version if they update there OS.

A quote from Samsung website states

Galaxy S8 and S8+ users in the U.S. can start using Bixby’s voice service immediately by updating the application to the latest software version.
Read More herehttp://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/samsung-bixby-available-us-enlish.html

The Standard Organization of Nigeria, SON, today sealed up the premises of Samsung West Africa which is located in Victoria Island of Lagos state Nigeria. The reason for closure, according to SON, was as a result of failure on the part of the distributor to register some of the products as well as partly registration of certain Samsung product imported to Nigeria.

Read the rest here http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/samsung-office-in-nigeria-was-closed.html

Rumours about the Nokia 8 smartphone yet to be released by Nokia is being revealed online. The photo was purportedly unveiled by Evan Blass. As can be seen from the photo, the device is totally different from the confirmed Nokia 7 gadget. It will certainly become Nokia high-range smartphone in terms of price.

High range smartphones released this year and others that are yet to be released showed very small or no bezel, however, the Nokia 8 has a large bezel. Though there is no rumours yet as to the screen to body ratio.

Nokia to released Nokia 7 and Nokia 8 soon. Read about the date of launch, some leaked photos, features and specs of Nokia 8 ---->
http://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2017/07/nokia-8-photos-leaked-and-rumoured.html

Obinnau:
Nokia is dead.

Nokia is trying to come back