Smartphone owners have grown exponentially in the last 10 years. According to a recent report, over 62 percent of Nigerians now own smartphones. Hence, mobile phone penetration has increased geometrically.
Phones, whether small or not, serve different hilarious and sometimes unconventional purposes for Nigerians. Below are some of the unusual ways Nigerians use smartphones.
1. Serve as torch when there is power outage
Torchlight is a very important smartphone feature. Perhaps, this feature was added because makers of smartphone are aware that electricity is unstable in Nigeria. For this reason, the mobile phone torchlight is highly appreciated by Nigerians. Everyone, from the market woman to the chief executive and the taxi driver, uses torchlight. It will always come handy when power is abruptly interrupted.
2. 'Lie' about your location
Have you ever done this before? Yes? Hmmm... Phones have made it easy to to tell lie. Unashamedly, in a close commercial bus in Lagos, a man will tell a lie that he is still close to the location of the meeting. Meanwhile, he is still in another state. Worse still, some of them are yet to leave home.
3. Shouting on the phone
Shouting on the phone is one of the ways you can identify some Nigerians. Although this practice is on the decline, quite a handful of people still do it. They are verbose and disclose their private life on the without being worried that they are in public.
4. Serve as wallet
The back of a phone serves as a safe place to keep money even though only small amounts can be kept there. The reason for this, though unlikely, may bet that mobile phones are handheld.
5. For wooing girls
There are now facebook and instagram girlfriends. In other words, virtual girlfriends whom people have never met and are not intending to meet anytime soon. Some people are experts in wooing girls on the social but they suddenly become tongue-tied when they met an amiable and stunning lady!
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