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Buying Mobile Phones Guide

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You have plans of buying a mobile phone, don’t you? In this page, you will find a brief review of factors to consider when shopping for mobile phones.

Where to Buy Mobile Phones

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This page is like a quick list of what to consider. For a more detailed mobile phone shopping guide, read our detailed mobile phone buy guide.

Types of Mobile Phones?

There are three types of mobile phones namely

  • Basic Phones
  • Smartphones
  • Feature Phones

What Type of Mobile Phone User are you?

  • Ordinary User
  • Savvy user
  • Mobile worker/business user

What Data/Internet Speed and Technology

  • 2G: CDMA 1x or GSM GPRS/EDGE up to 200+ kbps
  • 3G: CDMA EVDO or WCDMA HSPA up to 7.2Mbps
  • pre 4G: LTE, Mobile WiMax, or HSPA+ up to 80 Mbps

What Cellular Technology?

  • GSM
  • CDMA
  • 3G WCDMA
  • 3G CDMA EVDO
  • 4G LTE

What Mobile Phone Styles?

  • Block/Candybar mobile phones
  • Slide Mobile phones
  • Flip mobile phones

You may also be on How to Buy a Smartphone.

What is your Budget?

The prices of worthy mobile phones starts from 3,000 Naira (20 USD) in Nigeria. Prices of mobile phones depend on a number of factors like number of features, user experience, and design quality. The more features a mobile phone has the more expensive it becomes.

Buy from an authorised shop

Buying your mobile phones from authorised dealers ensures that you buy a genuine mobile phone. You also get a warranty in case anything goes wrong. Mobile phones bought from authorised dealers in Nigeria come with at least one year warranty.

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What Mobile Phone features do you want?

(Colour screen, Size, Screen size, Screen resolution, Camera phone, Bluetooth, Predictive text T9, MMS, Battery life, WAP, Wireless web browser, GPRS, FM Radio, mp3, Games, Ring tones, Multi-bands, WI-FI, memory capacity, Expansion slots, VoIP calls, Streaming media, TV-output port, GPS, Video Recording, USB 2.0, etc.)

Once you have a clear idea of what you want the next step is to go for a market survey. Visit retail shops and see mobile phones on offer. You can also compare prices and read product reviews.

We recommend that you buy your mobile phones, mobile phone accessories and mobile phone enhancements from authorised mobile phone dealers. Accredited dealers will give you a warranty on any mobile phone you buy from them. If you must buy from the roadside then you must be careful, open the product and ensure that the mobile phone is not falsely labeled. Also ensure that all your accessories are complete.

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Paschal Okafor
Paschal Okafor
Paschal Okafor is the founder of NaijaTechGuide. A Graduate of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Paschal is passionate about Technology and since 2006 has written over 4000 articles covering Mobile Devices, Consumer Electronics, Digital Marketing, Mobile Apps, and Online Services. Over the past 16 years, he has managed to turn a blog that started life on a Google Blogger subdomain into the Largest Technology Blog in Nigeria and quite possibly the largest in Africa. Paschal has been Building, Analyzing, and Maintaining Websites for over 17 years and also shares his wealth of knowledge and experience about building and managing websites on NaijaTechGuide.

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