LG G2 Smartphone Review by PING Nigeria

What to expect from LG G2?

LG G2 is a powerful smartphone with a huge 5.2-inch Full HD phone with a powerful quad-core 2.2GHz processor, 13MP camera and an impressively large 3,000mAh battery.

With all kinds of phones available nowadays it is difficult for companies to create an unique design that is both useful and attractive at the same time. And it is also equally if not more difficult to pick a phone over so many choices available to you. For example, Samsung Galaxy, iPhone 5s, Moto X and so many more. In terms of features and the basic hardware design almost all phones serve the same purpose… so what makes LG G2 any different?

The new LG G2 is no less than a personal computer. It comes jam packed with hardware and software that you may find on a traditional tablet or a laptop that is only couple of years old.

The LG G2 has been dubbed the AIO. It is an all in one solution to a smart-phone. For example, you get LCD display, 1920 x 1080 HD, 2 GHz quad-core CPU, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB disk-space, 13 MP camera, Wi-Fi, blue-tooth, Android 4 operating system, and it is only 9 mm thick to fit the right size.

There are some interesting changes to the design. For example, you will find the buttons are below the camera. Even though the phone is 9.1 mm thick, it somehow was able to house a 11.4 Wh battery. Like any other updates the phone features a new theme for the display, and touch-screen buttons on the screen.

Even though the phone features an impressive amount of hardware, it is still not known how the overall experience is going to be or how well the hardware and software will compliment each other.

We at PING Nigeria see great thing happening for LG mobile in 2014. what do you think?

 

LG G2 Smartphone Review by PING Nigeria

Atomo Rapid New Malaria Test Kit Made in Africa

Atomo Rapid is an award winning Australian healthcare company, Atomo Diagnostics will introduce its innovative malaria testing kit at the 6th MIM Pan-African malaria conference held in Durban. It was developed by Australian healthcare company Atomo Diagnostics and currently underway until October 11. The company is pleased to now  announce that it has been awarded a commercialisation grant by the Federal Government to bring to market the first malaria test application on its AtomoRapid™ platform. Rapid testing away from hospitals and clinics is recognised as an increasingly important weapon in the fight, to bring infectious diseases under control in Africa. As malaria test kits have resulted in erroneous diagnosis, AtomoRapid aims to supply accurate readings with the integration of blood collection and the delivery features into the test cassette. A large scale study in Sudan revealed major user errors when using complicated malaria test kits. We all know there is a serious need in Africa for reliable, rapid diagnostic tests. Kits that are easy to use in-field, especially in remote settings. According to the Global Fund, 655,000 malaria deaths were recorded in 2010 with more than 90 per cent of the cases coming from Africa. John Kelly, the CEO & founder of Atomo Diagnostics said: “Malaria is as much of a threat to the wellbeing of Africans as HIV. We wanted to ensure that we were also able to utilise the next-generation AtomoRapid™ solution to aid in the fight against malaria” The company is currently in the process of bringing to market two products: AtomoRapid™ HIV and AtomoRapid™ Malaria, scheduled for launch in Africa later in the year. AtomoRapid™ Malaria will be manufactured in South Africa with production taking place at a new ISO 13485 certified facility. This makes it not only the world’s most user friendly rapid malaria test, Meaning an African made test that can be exported to the benefit of the rest of the world? PING! Magazine acknowledges this great achievement. What do Africans think about AtomoRapid?

Atomo Rapid New Malaria Test Kit Made in Africa

Airtel Kenya offers Free Internet

Airtel Kenya has recently announced a free internet offer for all its prepaid customers dubbed ‘ Good Morning’. The daily service allows 80MB of free data after a subscriber has text ‘Good Morning’ to 544. In a statement, Mr. Shivan Bhargava, Airtel Kenya Managing Director said, “This initiative is in response to insights from our customer surveys. The mobile service provider intends to have more offers for its clients in the near future. it will also have convenient communication and reliable network access. Airtel Kenya promised to make communication easier and faster for their customers and internet access everyday. Airtel Money is used for paying utility bills for Nairobi Water, Kenya Power, DStv and KAPS parking fees. Airtel Kenya customers can now dial *222# to access more information on Airtel Money such as agent locations and account information. The offer is seen as competition for Safaricom’s free Mutatu Wifi initiative launched not long ago. The new promotion targets the early morning population of people trying to get to their places of work as well as schools stuck in the rush hour traffic. It will also be available for Facebook users on m.facebook.com.  Airtel Money currently has more than 10,000 agents countrywide with the number expected to grow to 15,000 by the end of the year 2013. The new promotion targets the early morning population of people trying to get to their places of works, schools stuck in the rush hour traffic. Airtel kenya aims to cater for a larger population countrywide with the morning offer and not only commuters during the rush hour. Well done Airtel.

Airtel Kenya offers Free Internet

Airtel customers get free Internet in Kenya

Airtel customers gets free Internet in Kenya

Airtel Kenya has announced a free internet offer for all its prepaid customers dubbed ‘Good Morning’. The daily service allows 80MB of free data after a subscriber has text ‘Good Morning’ to 544. In a statement, Mr. Shivan Bhargava, Airtel Kenya Managing Director said, “This initiative is in response to insights from our customer surveys”. It will also have convenient communication and reliable network access. Airtel promised to make communication and internet access easier and faster for their customers everyday. Airtel Money is used for paying utility bills for Nairobi Water, Kenya Power, DStv and KAPS parking fees. Airtel customers can now dial *222# to access more information on Airtel Money such as agent locations and account information. The offer is seen as competition for Safaricom’s free Mutatu Wifi initiative launched not long ago. The new promotion targets the early morning population of people trying to get to their places of work as well as schools and are stuck in the rush hour traffic. It will also be available for Facebook users on m.facebook.com. Airtel Money currently has more than 10,000 agents countrywide with the number expected to grow to 15,000 by the end of the year 2013. The new promotion targets the early morning population of people trying to get to their places of work as well as schools stuck in the rush hour traffic. Airtel aims to cater for a larger population countrywide with the morning offer and not only commuters during the rush hour. The mobile service provider intends to have more offers for its clients in the near future.

Airtel customers get free Internet in Kenya

VC4Africa launches premium service for AngleList investors

VC4Africa launches premium service for AngleList investors

VC4Africa, Africa’s leading AngleList investment community has launched a premium service for investors. VC4Africa premium service is available to Angel investors and VCs that sign up for a VC4Africa Pro Account.  The Pro account will cost $39 monthly for starter pack for angel investor. However they also have the small fund investor for $499 monthly and Formal investor at $999 monthly. The service will allow you to follow the progress of more than 800 ventures gaining traction in 40 African markets and have exclusive access to screened deal flow.

The Pro Accounts also have these benefits:

• Unlimited access to prescreened ventures


• Access to private documents & quick scan results


• Ability to message any member of VC4Africa


• Ability to set up and manage your own group; no storage quotas


• Accessible on-the-go from any device


• Secured with 256-bit AES encryption


• Access to VC4Africa partners network


• Dedicated account representative

VC4Africa launches premium service for AngleList investors

GGI game builds bike for people in Africa

GGI game builds bike for  people in Africa

Global Gaming Initiative {GGI} is a company that develops mobile games to help raise awareness of social problems around the world. GGI founder Elizabeth Sarquis believes that by using games it will affect social change and get people wanting to help improve the food, water and education problem in the world.

GGI will develop fun and cool games for charities that will help people around the world. GGI will give 50% of the profit they made by selling the game to the charities. So by us purchasing the game we will be helping people around the world and “Together we can change the world”.

GGI has created their first game SideKick Cycle to help the World Bicycle Relief bring bikes to kids in Africa. The World Bicycle Relief since 2005 has provides some of Africa’s most impoverished communities with over 115,000 specially designed locally assembly bicycles. The bikes are made in their 5 assembly facilities that create local jobs and train field mechanics so that they can fix the bikes.

GGI SideKick Cycle game is only available on iOS and can be downloaded at the Apple Store for just £0.69. GGI has made the game so that its fun but also that it raises awareness of the positive impact bikes can make on someone’s live. So by us buying the game we will help raise money to change lives of people in Africa.

The bikes will help students reach school on time so that they can improve their grades and get a great education and allow health care workers are able to travel further and help more patients. In addition it allows the entrepreneurs to build their business plus allows families to reach clean water.

Likewise if you want to help some more then you can go to the World Bicycle Relief site and donate money from 25 up to $1,340 to help prove bikes for people who it will made a difference to.

GGI game builds bike for people in Africa

Google Celebrates Nigerias 53rd with a Doodle

Google Celebrates Nigeria’s 53rd with a Doodle

Google celebrated the country’s 50th anniversary of independence with a Doodle in 2010. Today, October 1, 2013 is Nigeria’s 53rd Independence Anniversary Day. She gained independence on the 1st of October 1960. This is the second doodle for Nigeria’s Independence Anniversary to be released by Google since October 2010.

Google has a new doodle to celebrate with Nigerians on its local domain at Google.com.ng.  It featured  the beautiful colours of the Nigerian flag, green and white, with a touch of different shades of green and grey patterned like a Nigerian (native) fabric popularly sewn and worn by some Nigerian ethnic groups.

Google has regularly used its Doodle in recent months to celebrate important African dates and events. In March Google also celebrated the birthday of Miriam Makeba, known as Mama Africa of South Africa, Google also used a doodle on its Kenya domain as citizens across the country voted in March general election. PING! Magazine thinks this year’s doodle features a more beautiful image of Nigeria with better design and creativity than last year. What do you think? Special thanks to Google for celebrating Nigeria and with Nigerians. As the celebration of Nigeria’s independence rents the air, the PING! Magazine family joins the celebration train with 53 hearty cheers to Nigeria.

Google Celebrates Nigerias 53rd with a Doodle