falcon01:
Patriotism

princeade86:
I think home made should be more cheaper

saintopus:
Am sure most NLanders are not aware that Nigeria makes android phones. I didn't know it until today.
A neighbor has a new Imose Android phone her husband gifted her the previous day. The lady has been struggling to open a new Facebook account unsuccessfully so in a bit to assist her decided check the cost and the android version of the phone.
I was surprised to know that the phone has 16GB ROM, 2GB RAM, 6'' in size.
I now check the cost online on Jumia, I was surprised to see that the phone is N51,000. A phone whose originating country is Nigeria.
I continue checking other phones within the same price range. The following are some of them

1 SAMSUNG GALAXY A03 CORE

2. TECNO Pop 4 BDC1

3 NOKIA C10

4. ITEL À37

5. NOKIA C1

I purposely listed the above phones for a reason. Now who is in his right sense would bring out N51,000 to buy Imose Android phone that has its originating country as Nigeria with such poor quality and leave our the better quality foreign made android phones such as SAMSUNG, TECNO, ITEL, INFINIX, NOKIA etc
Some Nigeria will say its economic sabotage not to patronize your country made good's and services but will one compromise quality?
The same thing happened with rice before 2014 a bag of 50KG Rice was N8000.00 so government said we will stop the importation of rice to grow the economy and a bag of rice today is over N30000. Rice that was produced in Nigeria more expensive than the foreign made.

Nigeria, it's well.

Parachoko:
Have you heard of Economy Of Scale before?

saintopus:

Tell me more

Parachoko:
Base on your review of the phone, they need to really improve.

They will never be able to compete with low budget phones like Itel if they do not work on stuffs like marketing too.

Parachoko:
Base on your review of the phone, they need to really improve.

They will never be able to compete with low budget phones like Itel if they do not work on stuffs like marketing too.

Parachoko:
Have you heard of Economy Of Scale before?

saintopus:


My concern is more on the cost rather than on the quality even

Parachoko:
If they are not producing a lot of phone and making lots of sales, the price won't fall.

InformationPro:


Abeg Help me ask am




What has economy of scale got to do with this?

InformationPro:





What has economy of scale got to do with this?

saintopus:

Then they should start producing na

Epurogonogono:

Wow, I never knew there was a Nigerian made phone .

The reason I think it's expensive with such low quality is probably because some (or all) parts used to make the phone might be imported, another reason might be because of the lack of quality electricity in Nigeria, with makes producers seek alternatives, with are also expensive.

There might be other factors, but these are the main factors I can think of right now.

Parachoko:
Even if they have the capacity to produce more, they won't produce more, if they do so, they will run at a loss because nobody will buy the phones.

If you are to choose between this phone and Samsung AO3 Core, which one will you choose?

For now, they are not doing enough in terms of marketing.

I've never use my eyes see the phone before.

What's the essence of producing more phones people won't buy? They will keep on producing few numbers of phones that will be very expensive.

Ruke1989:
I have explained above:

1) economics of scale
2) cost of electricity
3) multiple taxation
4) access to raw materials.

Op, read up the detailed explanation earlier posted for details

Ruke1989:
Older & well established businesses have more supplier chain and distributor network. They can access raw materials at far cheaper prices because suppliers gives them better discount when they buy more raw materials and make regular bulk payment than the newer startups. In essence, Infinix, techno, Samsung has power to negotiate cheaper prices than imose because they have far more supplier network and buy more bulks of raw materials than imose. They even have the technical know-how to produce any parts themselves than imose who employ inexperienced local graduates

Two, electricity is very cheap in china than most countries of the world and that affects production cost. That's partly why Infinix, techno and Chinese products are generally cheaper than American products where electricity and raw materials are costlier

Three, china is supplier of raw materials to the electronic industry. If you produce phone in Nigeria, you will import the raw materials from china to Nigeria. We don't have chip companies in Nigeria, we don't produce IC in Nigeria. The cost of importation will be factored into your production cost. A company in china or US doesn't have to import everything because the chipsets are produced locally so the cost of production is lower than producing in Nigeria

Multiple taxation is killing businesses in Nigeria. That's not obtainable in other countries. For example, you heard telecom operators cry out over 5% excise duty tax. Their cry was sequel to the fact they already pay 38 different kind of taxes to 9ja govt. The masses chose bad politicians but end up blaming companies for high cost of things. It's myopic. We are angry at mtn high call rate or data rate. The fact is govt is the problem.

Govt laws don't favor businesses in Nigeria. Chinese govt intentionally provide free shipping service to companies to encourage export driven economy for example. Nothing like that here. Our govt is impulsive and they are in the habit of strangulating local companies regularly. Try set up a shop in your local hood, within a month, before you make your first sale, you will be visited by more than 6 govt agencies in your state for taxes and levies. After that you fuel your gen throughout the month and pay federal tax, personnel tax, etc. You will pass it on to the clients to stay afloat in business

princeade86:
I think home made should be more cheaper

saintopus:
Am sure most NLanders are not aware that Nigeria makes android phones. I didn't know it until today.
A neighbor has a new Imose Android phone her husband gifted her the previous day. The lady has been struggling to open a new Facebook account unsuccessfully so in a bit to assist her decided check the cost and the android version of the phone.

https://www./imose-gidi-2-smartphone-133334796.html
I was surprised to know that the phone has 16GB ROM, 2GB RAM, 6'' in size.
I now check the cost online on Jumia, I was surprised to see that the phone is N51,000. A phone whose originating country is Nigeria.
I continue checking other phones within the same price range. The following are some of them

1 SAMSUNG GALAXY A03 CORE

2. TECNO Pop 4 BDC1

3 NOKIA C10

4. ITEL À37

5. NOKIA C1

I purposely listed the above phones for a reason. Now who is in his right sense would bring out N51,000 to buy Imose Android phone that has its originating country as Nigeria with such poor quality and leave our the better quality foreign made android phones such as SAMSUNG, TECNO, ITEL, INFINIX, NOKIA etc
Some Nigeria will say its economic sabotage not to patronize your country made good's and services but will one compromise quality?
The same thing happened with rice before 2014 a bag of 50KG Rice was N8000.00 so government said we will stop the importation of rice to grow the economy and a bag of rice today is over N30000. Rice that was produced in Nigeria more expensive than the foreign made.

Nigeria, it's well.

saintopus:

Patriotism to compromise poor quality? If I give you N51k will you leave the above mentioned phones for Imose Android?
Make we dey sincere na!!!��

falcon01:
some people don't care about specs because they ain't no hardcover users, I care about specs! I