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I am a self-confessed Nokia die-hard. I have stuck with them even though the performance of some of their later models of phones, especially the touchscreen ones has been less than stellar. Nokia make great hardware. I am yet to find a manufacturer that makes sturdy long lasting phones Like Nokia does. However, their software seems to leave a lot to be desired. Saying that, I still do believe that the Nokia E71 is one of the best smartphones they may. I still have mine to date and it has served me faithfully. A friend who couldn’t understand my almost fanatical obsession with Nokia phones dared me to try another smartphone operating system. Try the iPhone or an Android phone and then tell me if you will go back to Nokia. The opportunity came when Safaricom introduced the uber-cheap Huawei IDEOS U8150 in Kenya. Retailing at 8,500 Kenya Shillings with 600MB free data and 1,000 Shillings free airtime, it was a bargain to say the least. The IDEOS had Android 2.2 (Froyo) installed. It com...

Hi, I decided to do a simple comparison of data prices from the 4 mobile operators . I just took the data they had posted on their respective websites and put it in a table for comparison . From the data, some of which was a bit confusing to interpret , I found that the only common data bundle is the 1GB or 1000MB bundle . I decided to use the 1GB as 1000MB so as to standardize the values . So from the analysis , Safaricom data is the most expensive , and yu data is the cheapest . However it must be noted that yu 's information is easily misunderstood . The one point to note is that only Safaricom has a 3G network and all the other 3 - yu , Orange and Airtel are on EDGE. On a side note, interestingly, in some places I find that Orange and yu only have plain old GPRS within Nairobi environs. With Airtel and Safaricom, I haven't encountered that yet. Their signals have always been good enough to get at least EDGE coverage. Data is below...