I’m not a blogger, I’m just a regular phone user who needs a platform to rant and express what I feel. In all honesty, we all know Tecno Mobile saved us at a time when our lives were hinged on Blackberry. Tecno introduce its first Android smartphone late 2012 and I decided to ditch my Blackberry Curve 2 for it around January 2013 for Tecno N3. I was happy because I was able to own an Android phone for a relatively cheap price.
Back in 2012, you can’t buy a Samsung Android device as a student because you just can’t afford it. Tecno changed that and made the Android platform available to Nigerians, and Africa as a whole. Can we thank them enough?
The Craze for the Latest OS
Tired of running Gingerbread, I decided to get rid of my Tecno N3 and got a Tecno P5. I was running Android 4.2.2 Jellybean. You see, for someone coming from a Blackberry Curve 2, I was fascinated with the world of Android and wanted to explore it as much as I could. My Tecno P5 was running Kitkat and I learned about rooting. That was when the fun really began.
As time went on, I decided I wanted a phone that could run Android Kitkat and couldn’t hold myself but to buy the upgraded P5, Tecno P5+. Ever since I started the Android journey, I’ve been a Tecno fan but unfortunately, my love for Tecno Mobile is dying.
When Tecno Phantom Z was released, I thought if I should buy the phone, I wouldn’t change my phone for a long time to come and took the plunge. I bought if for 63,000 naira on Jumia last year. It was the highest I have ever spent on a phone till date.
Fast forward to September 2015, I’m still on Kitkat!
Now my question is this: Why does Tecno Mobile fail to provide major software upgrades for its devices but decides to release new devices instead? I don’t get it but is this some sort of marketing strategy? Till date, I’m not sure any Tecno device has ever been upgraded from one Android version to another. Why is this so? Is this company exploiting Nigerians?
This suggests that when Tecno releases a phone, they have absolutely no plan for the phone. I don’t understand this. One thing they fail to see is that people are getting sick of this and there are threads on Nairaland that prove this.
A lot of people don’t know this but Infinix Mobility, another brand owned by Tecno Mobile’s parent company called Transsion Holdings, seems to have better marketing strategy. I checked their website and found out that apart from Tecno and Infinix, these guys also own iTel and Carlcare.
But, wait… since these two companies are somehow related, is this actually intentional?
Believe me, Tecno is losing it’s magic on me. I presently own Tecno Phantom Z but I swear it’s going to be my last Tecno phone if I don’t get a Lollipop update soon. I’m totally sick of changing my phone every now and then everytime there’s a new Android version.
I saw Tecno Camon C8 but then, it even runs an outdated version of Lollipop, 5.0.
Tecno Mobile should stop producing phones, slightly varying the specs and then forcing you to keep buying just to stay up to date. If this continues, other brands will take over and what Tecno built over the years may just be gone.