The Infinix S2 pro (a.k.a Infinx Hot S 2) is the latest in the long streak of Infinix phones to hit the Ghanaian Market and it is the Infinix Hot S’s direct successor. The Infinix S2 Pro X522 is the first phone by manufacturers Infinix with dual camera setup on the front.
One great feature you would have to look out for on the phone is the front facing dual camera that promises to deliver “Wefies” to the user. The phone has both a 13MP front camera and an 8MP front Camera. The latest Infinix S2 Pro’s 13MP huge lens was made for wide angle selfies called “Wefies” and the 8MP smaller lens for normal selfies. This means that the Infinix S2 Pro X522 has been built to support selfies by groups otherwise referred to as “wefies”.
The new Infinix S2 Pro X522 has a 5.2-inch 720p display, same size as the Infinix Hot S – with 2.5D dragon trail glass and is powered by a MediaTek MT6753 Octa-core processor with 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage expandable up to 128GB via MicroSD slot.
The Infinix s2 pro is expected to go on sale on Jumia soon
The fresh Infinix S2 Pro runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Infinix XOS v.2.1 out of the box. It looks good to get the Android 7 update too. The phone also boasts of a fingerprint scanner which is located at the back of the phone, just above the Infinix Logo and below the rear camera flash. There has been no improvement in the area of battery life as it comes with a 3000mAh, same as the Infinix Hot S.
Infinix S2 Pro Key Specification
Model: Infinix S2 Pro X522
Security: Rear fingerprint scanner
Operating System: Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)
Available Colors: Midnight Black, Orchid Gray, Coral Blue, Arctic Silver, and Maple Gold
Internal Memory: 32GB, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD Card
RAM: 3GB, 2GB
Processor: MediaTek MT6753 Processor, Octacore
Display Size: 5.2-inch 720p display with 2.5D dragon tail glass
Rear Camera: 16MP with LED flash
Front Camera: 13MP + 8MP dual front-facing cameras with dual-tone LED flash, f/2.0 aperture
Connectivity: 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, USB Type-C, USB OTG
Battery: 3000mAh battery with Fast Charging
the Infinix S2 Pro has a fingerprint sensor
Price of Infinix S2 Pro X522 in Ghana
The Infinix s2 Pro is available at the price of GHS 713.00.
Need one? Call George on +233245269141
Excited about this phone? Have you checked out the Tecno Camon CX that was released earlier this year? Will the Infinix S2 Pro be a good competitor for the Tecno Camon CX? Let’s wait and see.
Hisense King Kong 3 (aka Hisense C30) smartphone by Hisense Mobile in 2017 for the Ghanaian market.
The Hisense King Kong 3 is resistant to water and dust confirmed by an IP68 certificate. The device has a 5-inch HD display (like King King 2) and works under Snapdragon 415 with 32GB of ROM and 3GB of RAM. Cameras have 16 and 5 megapixels. The battery has 3000mAh.
Specifications of the Hisense King Kong 3
Dimensions: 71.7 x 145 x 8.6 mm Weight: 152 g SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 MSM8929 CPU: 4x 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, 4x 1.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, Cores: 8 GPU: Qualcomm Adreno 405 RAM: 3 GB, 667 MHz Storage: 32 GB Display: 5.2 in, Full HD Battery: 3200 mAh, Li-Polymer OS: Android Nougat with Vision UI Camera: 16MP front, 5MP rear, both with LED Flash SIM card: Micro-SIM Wi-Fi: b, g, n, n 5GHz, Dual band, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct USB: 2.0, Micro USB Bluetooth: 4.0 Positioning: GPS, A-GPS Other: Water/Dust/Shock Proof
Price of the Hisense King Kong 3
Buy Hisense King Kong 2 from Mfidie.com for GHS 1500 in Ghana
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Hisense King Kong 2 (aka Hisense C20) smartphone by Hisense Mobile in 2017 for the Ghanaian market.
The Hisense King Kong 2 is resistant to water and dust confirmed by IP67 certificate. The device has a 5-inch HD display, it works under Snapdragon 415 with 16GB of flash and 2GB of RAM. Cameras have 13 and 5 megapixels. The battery has 3000mAh.
Specifications of the Hisense King Kong 2
Dimensions: 71.7 x 145 x 8.6 mm Weight: 152 g SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 MSM8929 CPU: 4x 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, 4x 1.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, Cores: 8 GPU: Qualcomm Adreno 405 RAM: 2 GB, 667 MHz Storage: 16 GB Display: 5 in, AMOLED, 720 x 1280 pixels, 24 bit Battery: 3200 mAh, Li-Polymer OS: Android 5.1 Lollipop Camera: 4160 x 3120 pixels, 1920 x 1080 pixels, 30 fps SIM card: Micro-SIM Wi-Fi: b, g, n, n 5GHz, Dual band, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct USB: 2.0, Micro USB Bluetooth: 4.0 Positioning: GPS, A-GPS
Price of the Hisense King King 2 in Ghana
Buy Hisense King Kong 2 from Mfidie.com for GHS 850
Blogging in Ghana has become very popular. These days, there are a lot of bloggers everywhere, and with them, their blogs. Some people blog on issues and some do lifestyle.
A lot more people blog on news, and there are some who do the very unreasonable “copy and paste”. But hey, everyone is blogging!
There are about a whopping 173 million blogs worldwide and this is just an estimation. It is very difficult to tell the number of blogs in the world but one thing is for sure there are a lot more some alive, some dead and some on and off. With a huge interest in blogging nowadays, there is also a lot of misconceptions about it, especially about Ghanaian bloggers and blogging in Ghana.
Today we look at some of the misconceptions associated with bloggers in Ghana and blogging in general. At the end of this post, don’t forget to tell us what you think by leaving a comment.
Misconceptions about blogging and bloggers in Ghana
You can start a blog and make money quickly
How much money can you make from Blogging in Ghana?
This is a very big misconception here in Ghana and it’s as well funny for me. A lot of peeps think when you start a blog, that’s a sure banker making easy money. Well the whole mechanism of making money with blogging is not as easy as it sounds. Ghanaian readers are discerning enough to know who really is providing them with information and value and who just wants to bait them to visiting their site.
To think of making money with your blog, you have to provide good value for your readers, build a strong reading community and let you readers identify with you. This is not something you can do overnight, right?
You can have a fair idea of how much a website is making online. Just search the website on $itemap.org
Bloggers just sit around all day behind their computers and tablets
Bloggers have a whole different life than you would imagine
I personally have not met any blogger who sits behind his or her devices all day just blogging! The truth of the matter is most bloggers actually have a job or are students who are busy most of the time. True bloggers have the passion to share information with their readers and therefore make time to do this. They do not have all the time in the world like most people assume. Even full-time bloggers are most of the time not behind the computers. They go out to meet people, have social interactions and look for other ways to advertise their blog and make a business out of it. From experience, I realize bloggers are some of the best volunteers ever. S/O to Skinny Rahim of 247filla.com
Blogging is the easiest thing you could do
Blogging has never been easy
Hahaha! This one is very funny yet very understandable too. For a lot of people it takes 2 to 5 minutes to read a simple blog post but have you thought about what goes into just one blog post? Especially for bloggers like myself who are not very gifted writers, you could spend about 3 hours minimum on a blog post. You need to write a blog post, edit and proof read it. Then you need to look for images that are relevant for the blog post; if you don’t get any you might have to take them yourself, edit them to your satisfaction and then add them to the post.
One of the most difficult things about blogging is getting fresh ideas each and every day or on a regular basis. And sometimes when you have these ideas you do not even know how to present them. After all is done you need to share your blog posts to your audience and that’s another big job. Next time you think blogging is easy, it may be because a lot of work and effort went into it each post to make it “easy” for you to read and comprehend.
Blogging is not an easy path to success, and most people blog because they have the passion to do so. Professional blogging is expensive and not so cheap like is assumed by many. Any questions for a blogger? Ask below. Don’t forget to check out out “Learn to Blog” Series.
Ghanaian Online Habits have not been well documented like it has been done in other places around the world.
In fact, in Ghana, there seems to be very little or no research into what we do online. One of the many ways to measure what people do online is to look at the websites they visit.
Alexa provides this data by ranking websites based on the amount of traffic they get. Website traffic simply refers to the amount of Internet data that is sent or received on a website or different websites by the website’s visitors. Web traffic is the highest form of Internet Traffic globally.
Let’s look at what people in Ghana do on the internet based solely on web traffic.
Ghanaians love to be informed
The greater percentage of Ghanaians are reading news online. Most of these are local news websites mainly ghanaweb.com, yen.com.gh, myjoyonline.com, peacefmonline.com, citifmonline.com and modernghana.com. BBC and The Daily Mail are also represented on the list.
The news websites on the list also have a high rank with the local ones collectively reaching an average rank of 16.6.
Search, Search, Search! Ghanaians are always searching
Google, YouTube, Yahoo and Ask? Well, Ghanaians seem to understand how search engines work and are using it quite often.
Google.com.gh ranks highest in Ghana and this comes as a no surprise, especially with a lot of people on Google’s Android platform. A lot of video searches too on YouTube (YouTube is a search engine too, the second biggest in the World, actually) means Ghanaians are not left out on the video search scene.
It’s fair to assume most of these YouTube searches happen over office Wi-Fi and ethernet. Search Engines have a combined rank of 5. Impressive! Sadly, none of these search engines is Ghanaian.
Ghanaians love Social Media
Social Media Influence in Ghana is huge. Photo by Asempa FM
Ghanaians are in love with Social Media; but you already knew that, didn’t you? Facebook ranks at number 6, Instagram at 25 and Twitter at 45.
What’s surprising about social media is the rank of LinkedIn – at 15. A lot of people in Ghana seem to be taking the professional social networking site pretty serious nowadays. However, think about this – LinkedIn is an employment-oriented social networking service.
It could just be we are all on LinkedIn to search for jobs, considering the unemployment rate in the country.
Ghanaians are picking up on doing business online.
AliExpress, Alibaba, Amazon and Jumia? These are all shopping sites and they have a combined rank of 33. Tonaton and OLX are also on the list of websites frequented by Ghanaians.
You should read the comparison we did: Tonaton or OLX? Also on the business scene are a lot of Ad websites. Well, bloggers are at it again, delivering ads and making some money. Online shopping, online classifieds and online ads, Ghanaians certainly are doing some business online.
Ghanaians are into sports; they prove it by betting.
Goal, Livescore and Flash Score? Sports are a big thing in Ghana and it’s no surprise we have taken this online.
It’s a pity my favourite sports editorial site is not on this list but these sites are visited by the sporting community to satisfy their insatiable need to know whether Hazard is going to be transferred to Real Madrid or not.
Ghanaians have also taken to betting and this is quite good – proving you love the game by putting your money into it.
Here is a graph showing categories of websites in the top 50
50 most visited websites in Ghana April 2017
Find below the list of the top 50 Websites visited in Ghana
google.com.gh – Search Engine
youtube.com – Search Engine
google.com – Search Engine
ghanaweb.com – News
yahoo.com – Search Engine / News
facebook.com – Social Media
yen.com.gh – News
wikipedia.org – Educational Resource
onclkds.com – Ads
myjoyonline.com – News
peacefmonline.com – News
ghanamotion.com – Entertainment
live.com – News / Mailing
ask.com – Search Engine
linkedin.com – Social Media
tonaton.com – Classifieds
floralinvestment.com – Business
ug.edu.gh – Educational Resource
***********.biz – Adult Content
thepiratebay.org – Peer to Peer / File Sharing
www.aliexpress.com – Shopping
goal.com – Sports
blogspot.com – Blogging
livescore.com – Sports
instagram.com – Social Media
knust.edu.gh – Educational Resource
bet365.com – Betting
msn.com – News / Mailing
myway.com – Internet Portal
popads.net – Ads
citifmonline.com – News
amazon.com – Shopping
savefrom.net – Video Downloads
olx.com.gh – Classifieds
flashscore.com – Sports
modernghana.com – News
jumia.com.gh – Shopping
bbc.com – News
microsoft.com – News / Mailing
*******.com – Adult Content
wordpress.com – Blogging
go2cloud.org – Ads
alibaba.com – Shopping
reimageplus.com – Software
twitter.com – Social Media
ghanasoccernet.com – Sports
betway.com.gh – Betting
softonic.com – Software
dailymail.co.uk – News
office.com – Productivity
These website ranks are ordered by their 1 month Alexa traffic rank. What do you find surprising about the ranking?
Vodafone X has been around for a long time now, evolving at great speed and impressing many on its voyage. Ever since I heard “Vodafone X” in the latter part of 2013, it has remained one of the best data plans in the country. In this post, we look at the whole “Vodafone X thing” and which plan may be best for us.
Who can use Vodafone X?
Vodafone X, in short, is a “group of youth-centred data plans by Vodafone Ghana”.
Vodafone X packages can be subscribed to by Ghanaian youth between the ages of 15 to 24. If you registered your Vodafone SIM with an ID that puts you below 15 years or above 24 years, you cannot register for the service. This makes sense on the part of Vodafone, especially as most of the people in the age bracket of 15 to 24 are active online and use data a lot more. This means that Vodafone X will give them the opportunity to do more when they pay less.
What happens when you are over 24 years?
As mentioned earlier, you cannot subscribe to any of the Vodafone X packages when you are over 24 years of age. If you are still interested in using Vodafone X even though you are above the age of 24, you could go buy the “already made Vodafone X sim cards”. For users who were already on Vodafone X before passing the 24-age limit, they shall not be affected and will continue to bundle and enjoy the Vodafone X packages so long as they remain active.
As of now, you can subscribe to Vodafone X regardless of your age.
The Vodafone X Plans
There are currently 10 very unique plans you can choose from. 4 of these plans have a duration of a month – and an indication that the monthly plans are very popular. Only one app – the X-treme Monthly Plus provides free app data for Snapchat. All of the plans, however, provide free app data for WhatsApp.
Check out the table below for full plan details:
Vodafone X Plans Table
Explanation of the Table Items
Vodafone X Plans – These are the names of the plans
Price – The cost of each plan
Duration – The period (in days) for which a plan is active
Browsing Data – The amount of data that can be used to browse any site on the internet. When the “Free Apps Data” has been fully consumed, apps in that category will use data from the “Browsing Data”
Free Apps Data – This refers to data that can only be used by the apps mentioned as per the plan.
Cap on Subscription – The number of times you can subscribe to the particular plan within a specified period. However, there is a total of 4 times for any mix of the monthly bundles within a month.
A snapshot from the Vodafone X TV Commercial
Which Bundle is right for me?
This is a very tough question and for most people, it is difficult to answer. I would recommend that you start with the “smaller” bundles and see how long it takes you to exhaust them. A good way to start is with the X-Monthly plan which gives you 1.2 GB of Browsing Data and 500 MB for WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter for roughly GHS 12.
With this plan, it is easier to assess what your needs are. If you are able to exhaust the X-Monthly in just 2 weeks, you should definitely move to a higher plan. On the other hand, if the X-Monthly bundle is exhausted after in or after the third week, then with a little tweaking of your browsing habits, it should be the perfect plan for you.
One mistake a lot of Vodafone X users (those on monthly bundle plans) make is that they think they have “a lot of free data” and hurriedly consume more than 50 percent of their data limits in the first week of subscription.
As a Vodafone X user, you should always watch your browsing limits and abstain from downloading unnecessary content just because you have “a lot of data”. Remember, photos and videos consume bundle the most so you should be mindful of apps like Snapchat and Instagram.
Subscribing to Vodafone X is fast and easy although some people do face problems sometimes. You can subscribe by dialling 5888 or *5888# and following the prompt. For a complete Guide on How to Subscribe, click here:How to Subscribe to Vodafone X
What happens when my duration is up, yet I still have a bundle?
Although this does not happen frequently, a lot of users, at the end of their duration may still have some bundle left. Sadly, Vodafone X does not support “data roll-over”. This means that all your remaining data will be lost once you renew your plan or activate a new plan.
The Bottom Line
There are a lot of data plans from the various network operators but quite a lot of people seem to be interested in Vodafone X. This may be due to the “difficult to resist” offers or a good marketing strategy or a combination of both. However the case, Vodafone X does not look to be going away soon and will continue to remain the favorite of a lot more people.
Do you use Vodafone X? What Package are you on? Any Experience to share? Hit the comment section below.
In a blog post today, twitter has said it it is no longer counting usernames against character limits on tweets. If you are an ardent user of twitter, you should know tweets are limited to 140 characters (and even videos to 140 seconds). Usernames, especially when mentioning tweets or replying to tweets had the tendency to limit the user on the amount of characters that could be tweeted.
We’re changing replies so that you have all 140 characters to express yourself.
The Tecno Camon CX (a.k.a Tecno Camon C10) was launched yesterday in Accra. Since the Camon series was introduced in 2015, over 5 million handsets globally have been sold, helping consumers experience high-quality selfie technology at the touch of a button.
Apart from the 16 megapixels front camera with dual flash and the 16 megapixels back camera with ring flash, the Camon CX runs on Android 7.0 and has a 1.5Ghz octa-core processor.
The Tecno CSeries are a family of camera-focused phones, but they do good on productivity and the Tecno Camon C10 looks to be no different.
Tecno Camon CX Key Specification
Body Build: Metal
Operating System: Android 7.0 Nougat with HiOS
Network: 2G/3G/4G
Screen Size: 5.5 inches
Resolution: 1920×1080 pixels Full HD
Display: 2.5D display with Gorilla Glass 3
Weight: 140g
SIM: Dual Micro SIM
Processor: 2.0 GHz Octa-core (Helio P10)
GPU: Mali 860 GPU
Front Camera: Front: 16MP with Flash
Back Camera: Dual back 16MP with LED flash
Memory: 16GBROM Expandable via MICRO SD up to 128GB
RAM: 2GB
Connectivity: GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB 2.0
Battery Capacity: 3200mAh battery; 9V/2A fast charging
Sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity, and Compass Sensor, Temperature sensor, Hall sensor
Fingerprint: Yes
The Tecno Camon CX is for the Slay Kings and Slay Queens too
Pricing and Availability of the Tecno Camon CX
Tecno Camon CX Price in Ghana
The TECNO Camon CX is now available at retail outlets near you for the price of GHS 771.00 and you get 1 Gigabyte free Data each month for 6 months on MTN.
You should go get this phone if you are big on selfies.
How to get Free Data on MTN after buying the Tecno Camon CX in Ghana
Compose an SMS with the words “MBS” without quotation marks. Send the composed SMS to MTN short code 151 and it will be processed for you. Having problems getting the data? Contact your seller.
Hold your CX in style with a wide array of colours
Tecno Camon CX Price in Kenya
Tecno Camon C10 is available in Kenya for Ks 19,100
Tecno Camon CX Price in Nigeria
Tecno CX in Nigeria sells around 65,000 Naira.
The Grey Tecno CX is everyone’s favourite
Swap deals for the Tecno Camon C10
For swap deals on the Camon CX call George on +233 24 526 9141
Samsung Galaxy s8 is here with us. A few hours ago, Samsung announced the Galaxy S8 in all of it’s glory. We take a look at the specs of this amazing phone and how much it is going for (pre-order). There are two versions of the S8 (as expected): the standard Galaxy S8 with a 5.8-inch screen and the larger S8 Plus with a 6.2-inch screen. Check out the specifications below.
Specifications of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus
Galaxy S8 Plus: 6.2-inch OLED, 2960 x 1440, 529ppi
Samsung Galaxy s8
Cameras
Rear: 12-megapixel, OIS, F1.7
Front: 8-megapixel, auto focus, F1.7
Batteries
Galaxy S8: 3,000 mAh
Galaxy S8 Plus: 3,500 mAh
Dimensions
Galaxy S8: 148.9 x 68.1 x 8 mm, 155g
Galaxy S8 Plus: 159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm, 173g
Other specs
Android 7.0 Nougat
USB-C, 3.5mm headphone jack
NFC and MST for Samsung Pay
IP68 water and dust resistant
Wireless charging
LTE Cat.16
Bluetooth 5.0, can stream to two devices
Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac
Price of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus
Starting at an average of $750 and $850 full retail on most carriers in the US. Converting that to GHS, that should be GHS 3,300 and GHS 3,800 for the Galaxy s8 and the Galaxy s8 plus respectively.
Things to never google are exactly the ones people go out to google? Curiosity? Well there are very good reasons not to google these words and phrases. From my personal experience, when someone tells you not to google something, you should actually listen.
Today, I present a list of 3 things not to google; from not so good experiences. I know some of you guys would go ahead to google them even though this post clearly says “never google”. Well, “Does I care?”.
Enough of the blah blah blah! Let’s move on to these 3 things you should never enter into Google’s search box.
Well, what is Trypophobia? According to Wikipedia, Trypophobia is a proposed phobia (intense, irrational fear or anxiety) of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. The term is believed to have been coined by a participant in an online forum in 2005. Those images that show up when you search “trypophobia” are really freaky! You can check them out here: Trypophobia Image Search Results
Well, as descriptive as this search term might be, you should really prepare your eyes if you want to see some really ugly stuff! Peanut is just more than ugly and the sad part is once you see this dog’s face, it lurks in your memory for a very long long time. You should really not google this but if you are curious, click here to be taken directly to the search page: Peanut, the world’s ugliest dog.
This search term seems so innocent and generic, but it is definitely a term you would rather not search. Due to the fact that it is not specific to any kind of “skin condition”, this term curates the worst of images. This is a strong one, don’t even attempt it. Want to have a look at “Skin Conditions”? Just click here and happy yourself.
Do you know of any terms that provide very unpleasant results? Well, I don’t want to know!
