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Xiaomi Records Over 1million Phone Sales in Just 48 Hours

Xiaomi sells over a million phones in just 48 hours, during Indian event "It seems that Xiaomi India is doing at least something great, because their sales during the past few days are… completely off the charts!"

According to an official announcement that Xiaomi India made via Twitter, the company managed to sell more than 1 million phones in Flipkart and Amazon India in just 48 hours. Xiaomi also released the stats for the sales. The Redmi Note 4 was the highest selling smartphone on Flipkart. On Amazon, the lower priced Redmi 4 and Redmi 4A were the bestsellers.

Note that the Redmi Note 4 model was available with a 31$ discount on Flipkart, the Mi Max 2 was available with the same discount (31$) on both platforms.

This won’t be the only Mi Promo for the month of September. Starting 27th of September, Xiaomi will begin its DiwaliWithMi promo which will have several of its products discounted.

7 Facts From iPhone 8 Scratch, Burn, Bend and Durability Test Video

The new iPhone 8 is now available but in case you aren't aware, the new Apple phone has already undergone series of torture ranging from burn, Scratch and bend test. So I will show you the shocking video as well as the facts and important observations deduced from this iPhone 8 durability test video.

Are you thinking whether the device survived the test? Well, if you watched last year's durability test video of IPhone 7, you should have a clue of what happens. Of course, iPhone 7 survived most of the torture and iPhone 8 did well as expected. You can watch the video below, then read the facts from the video after.


If you can't view the video above, then click here to watch it.

FACTS FROM IPHONE 8 SCRATCH, BURN, AND BEND VIDEO

1. The glass front and back are about as scratch-resistant as the front glass on the iPhone 7 so Apple's "most durable glass ever on a smartphone" claim will likely be regarding the impact resistance rather than scratch-resistance.

2. The sapphire lens cover for the rear camera is not 100% pure sapphire and is about as scratch resistant as the glass used elsewhere on the phone, which is to say it's good but not as good as pure sapphire would be.

3. The phone uses improved ingress protection around the sides that does not pop when the phone bends, an issue that was present on the previous model.

4. The phone itself does not bend much at all, a far cry from when this design was first introduced with the original iPhone 6 that bent like a bar of chocolate on a hot day.

5. Everything you touch is either glass or metal, including the buttons on the side.

6. While not mentioned in this video, the glass back has been reported to be a lot grippier than the smooth metal surface of previous iPhones, which means it is lot less likely to slip out of your hands in the first place so you don't end up testing Apple's durability claims first hand.

7. The pixels recover from flame, which should be good news if you frequently find yourself using your phone while being engulfed in fire. (Why is this a test, again?)

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"Overall, the iPhone 8 does well in durability test. Real world scenarios will likely be less harsh so if a phone can survive this it will likely survive in the real world. But if you are paranoid Apple will be happy to charge you $39-$49 more for a case."

POS Usage in Africa: See Where Nigeria is Ranked

The latest statistics on countries that uses POS most for transaction in Africa came with a shocking result. Nigeria is ranked 7th in the continent despite being one of the country with most Internet users and advanced people in ICT as far as Africa is concerned.

It is really weird seeing Nigeria ranked 7th because i was expecting at least 2nd or 3rd but the report from IndexMundi proved me totally wrong.

Recall that Point Of Sale (POS) system was introduced in Nigeria about 3 years ago and later it was introduced in neighboring country Ghana but Nigerians makes just 21% of total transactions in the country via POS devices, while South Africa occupied the first rank with a whooping 91% of transactions done via POS. The second country is Ghana 80% followed by Tunisia at 79%. You can see the massive gap other countries gave Nigeria in this aspect. But why is this so? Let's check out.

WHAT IS THE CAUSE?

According to Kevin Chung of Avante International Technology, he revealed at the just concluded CashlessAfrica Expo that while the communication network and bandwidth are adequate, the data centers in the financial communities in Nigeria need to upgrade from Tier 1-2 to Tier 3-4 to enable the cashless economy.

But the main reason behind this poor POS usage in Nigeria is poor enlightenment, epileptic power supply, poor network issues and even lack of trust.

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There should be adequate awareness to enlighten people on the usefulness of paying with POS. Although armed robbers now uses it to rub their victims who claim not to have money with them. All the same, the banks should improve on the POS usage security and the public given enough awareness via every possible means.

Ref guardian.ng

Android Has Overtaken Windows As World’s Most Popular OS For

Android OS has overtaken Microsoft's Windows as world's most popular OS for internet web browsing according to a new report from StatCounter. This is actually the first time Android is surpassing Windows in this aspect as before now, people tend to access the Internet most times with a PC especially in advanced countries.

StatCounter is a free online tool that lets administrators keep track of their web traffic just like Google Analytics. Below is their statement on this recent statistics.

Google’s Android has overtaken Microsoft Windows for the first time as the world’s most popular OS in terms of total internet usage across desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile combined
The report is based on a sample size of over 15 billion page views per month and the mention “Internet usage” is strictly the viewing of website pages. This report does not include app or data usage as part of the results.


The chart above reveals overall internet usage market share over the past five years.
From the chat, it's obvious that windows popularity is declining while Android is gaining more momentum and dominion when it comes to web browsing.

Also, a close look at the world map indicates that countries where Android is primarily used for performing virtually every web-base tasks are developing countries.

However, in North America, laptop/desktop internet usage is still above the overall mobile usage of internet, though not by much more.

Apart from the above stats, Android still remains the most popular OS in the world and this it achieved with a wide margin.

Mercedes Benz is Now The Most Googled Car Brand in Nigeria

Popular car brand, Mercedes Benz is now the most searched vehicle in Nigeria via Google search engine. As we all know, Nigerians and Benz are like 5 and 6.

A recent survey carried to determine the most googled car brand in each country as seen in the map above, Benz won in Nigeria although Toyota cars are the most popular cars on Naija roads. You might say Nigerians are dreaming about Benz.

Meanwhile, Toyota rules the world overall and USA search. Russians love Hyundai while Canadians have something in common for Honda cars.

Now the biggest surprise is Niger Republic, can you believe that the most searched car in Niger is the almighty Bugatti!… for real? Bugatti of all cars. Really surprising ooo.

This research was done by a United Kingdom auto parts retailer called Quickco.

Below are most searched cars from some select countries.
✔️ Nigeria: Mercedes Benz
✔️ USA: Toyota
✔️ Canada: Honda
✔️ Russia: Hyundai
✔️ Niger: Bugatti
✔️ Brazil: Honda
✔️ Australia: Toyota
✔️ China: Toyota
✔️ United Kingdom: BMW
✔️ Mexico: Chevrolet

Note:
The stats were gotten from Google. However, google is not the most used search engine in some countries like China, Russia and South Korea.

Now taking it personal, which car brand do you always search more on Google? Mine is Toyota.
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Shocking: See How iTel Leads Mobile Phone Market in Africa

According to Counterpoint research for Q3 2016, iTel grew to be the number one mobile brand in Africa surpassing Samsung for the said time, capturing 20% share of the complete mobile phone shipments in the continent.

Apparently, the weak financial issue in some African countries like Nigeria has stirred up the necessity for feature phones in the market. Not only did iTel emerge as the number one selling cellular mobile manufacturer in Africa, it additionally remained the number one feature mobile player in the African market. The demand for affordable feature phones has additionally put Nokia in the prime 5 list of cellular mobile shipments.

In relation to the Smartphone market, Samsung cell leads with a complete 34%, down by means of 20%. Fierce competitors like Tecno mobile was ready to seize best 6% market share, at the same time Infinix captured 3% of the smartphone sub-segment.

Total, Transsion holdings’ is the biggest cellular mobile supplier in Africa for Q3, 2016. The mobile manufacturers beneath the company— iTel, Tecno, and Infinix — captured 34% of the total cell mobile market.