ASUS Launches ZenFone Selfie SmartPhone and Other Models in Nigeria

ASUS, No.1 laptop brand in Europe, has announced the pricing and availability of ZenFone family of smartphones for users in Nigeria, at a media event held on 4th of December 2015 at the Four Points by Sheraton Lagos Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.

The ZenFome family of mobile phones that were launched include : ZenFone Selfie, ZenFone Laser 5.5, ZenFone Go 5.0, and ZenFone C 4.5, all with comprehensive camera solutions.

The comprehensive camera solutions of ZenFone were demonstrated at the event. ZenMotion Touch Gesture allows users to open the front camera by simply drawing “S” on the ZenFone Selfie screen.

The built-in beatification camera tool can make the skin smooth, change the skin tone, slim the chick, and enlarge the eyes on a click. As soon as the selfie is taken, the photo is shown on the laptop screen via ASUS ZenUI app – PC Link, which allows users to operate their phones from laptop.

 All  the ZenFone models are equipped with ASUS PixelMaster technology; a unique ASUS-developed technology that combines software, hardware and optical design to deliver incredible image quality.

ZenFone Selfie is the ultimate choice for selfies, with its twin 13MP PixelMaster cameras and a dual-color, dual-LED Real Tone flash at both front and rear. ZenFone Selfie also features the new multifaceted polygonal design aesthetic to the ZenFone, offering beauty and power in abundance.

ZenFone Laser 5.5 includes laser auto-focus technology in its 13MP PixelMaster camera for clear, near-instant shots in just 0.3 seconds.

ZenFone Go 5.0 and ZenFone C 4.5 are also equipped with PixelMaster camera for up to 400% brighter photo & video.

All the photos taken by the ZenFones in the event are shared among each ZenFone instantly via ASUS Party Link app without consuming any data. The event ended with a group selfie including around 50 people in the photo thanks to the ZenFone’s wide angle camera technology.
 ZenFone Selfie (ZD551KL)  is the ultimate choice for selfies, with its twin 13MP PixelMaster cameras and a dual-color, dual-LED Real Tone flash at both front and rear plus laser auto-focus for ultra-fast shots with complete clarity.

ZenFone Selfie’s exceptional front-facing PixelMaster camera has a huge 13MP resolution and an f/2.2-aperture, 88-degree wide-angle lens to capture more of every smile. The unique Selfie Panorama mode enables selfies with an outlook of up to 140 degrees, so everything and everyone becomes part of the shot.

ZenFone Selfie’s rear camera is just as advanced, with a large f/2.0 aperture lens for superior low-light shots. Both cameras are engineered with five-prism Largan lenses and top-quality Toshiba sensors, and include dual-LED Real Tone flash technology for perfect illumination in any lighting conditions.

ZenFone Selfie also delivers superb macro photography that works on subjects as close as 6cm, plus rear laser auto-focus to compose shots in the blink of an eye.

 ZenFone Selfie boasts an up to octa-core 64-bit Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processor with 3GB RAM for unwavering performance and 4G/LTE connectivity with dual-SIM slots.

It runs Android 5.0 (Lollipop) OS and features internal memory of 32GB, 5GB ASUS WebStorage free for Lifetime. 100 GB Google Drive storage free for 2 years. MicroSD card support up to 128GB.

Display wise, it rocks 5.5 inches, Full HD 1920x1080/403 PPI, Scratch Resistant Corning® Glass with anti-fingerprint coating, Corning® Gorilla® Glass 4.

I will share more images when I receive my free review copy of the ASUS ZenFone Selfie phone.

How Much is ZenFone Selfie Phone in Nigeria?

Suggested Retail Price: N54,990

Where To Buy ZenFone Family of SmartPhone in Nigeria 

The ZenFone family will be available at Slot, Park N Shop, Konga, Genuss, Onyx, and Jumia from 12th December.

Contact Info:

ASUS Nigeria Website: http://www.asus.com/ng
ASUS Nigeria Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AsusNigeria
ASUS Twitter Handle: @Asus_nigeria

About ASUS

ASUS is the No. 1 laptop brand in Europe and a worldwide top-three consumer laptop vendor. A leading enterprise in the new digital era, ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today’s digital home and office, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards,optical drives, displays, desktop and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, servers, multimedia devices, wireless solutions, networking devices, tablets, smartphones and wearables.

Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 4,326 awards in 2014and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with its Eee PC™. ASUS has more than 13,600 employees around the globe with a world-class R&D team of 4,500 engineers. Company revenue for 2014 was approximately US$14.5 billion.

Where To Upload Your Song for Free Download in Nigeria

Digital music has created one of the most successful and profitable industry for music. The World Wide Web now makes it very easy for musicians to reach more audience around the world. Music artists can now make music accessible to anyone anywhere in the world and make money in the process.


If you are a Nigerian musician, upcoming or "already arrived"..lol, looking for a website in Nigeria where you can upload music and share with your fans for free download, then you need to check out mynotjustOk.com - and you can as well choose to sell instead of offering your music as free download.

The Nigeria online music sharing website is free to use and will foster the sharing, listening and monetizing of your music online; although the site enforces that everyone who uploads content has the right to do so and if any Copyright is being infringed upon by any user, the track will be taken down once the owner of the audio track submits all necessary evidence that they own the song or audio.

To get started, you have to sign up on the site and ensure you enable the "download" option while uploading your song. See screenshot below:




You can also upload your song online for free at soundcloud.com.

Right there, you can as well enable the "download" option to enable your fans download your song for free at soundcloud. You can as well use your soundcloud feed to create your iTunes Podcast so that your fans can listen to your latest songs using podcast mobile apps.

In my upcoming posts, I hope to share with you, how Nigeria musicians can upload their songs to iTunes. Ensure you subscribe to this blog if you don't want to miss it.

How to Recover Data from a Crashed Hard Drive

If you are a technician, then you probably know that hard drive failures are inevitable. Chances are that sooner or later it will happen to someone you support or possibly even you.  The good news is that there are lots of great recovery tools and methods out there and I would like to share them with you.

Connect the Drive to Another Computer

Before you can do any work on the crashed drive you will need to remove it from the current machine and connect it to another machine as a secondary drive.  The best way to do this is to use a USB to IDE/SATA adapter.  If you don’t have one available then you may be able to connect the drive to another desktop computer internally as a secondary drive.  If you do, make sure that the machine detects the drive in the BIOS or you won’t be able to access it once the computer starts up.

Try to Copy the Data to Another Drive

After you connect the drive to another computer either internally or with the USB adapter, check to see if you can browse the contents of the drive.  If you can, try to copy data off that you would like to recover.  There is a chance that only the operating system is corrupt and the user data is still fine.

Use Data Recovery Software

If you can’t manually copy the user data off then you can try to recover it using data recovery software.  Whatever you do, do not install the recovery software on to the drive that you are trying to recover data from. Doing so could actually overwrite files that you want to restore.

PC Hard Drive Recovery

RECUVA

  

         

Recuva is a free hard drive recovery tool from Piriform (the makers of CCleaner) and is one of the best free PC data recovery tools available.  Even if the drive has been formatted, Recuva can scan the drive recover files. If the basic scan fails, there is also a deep scan to discover more deeply-buried results.  There is also a portable version if you don’t want to install the full version. When you launch Recuva, you will be presented with a wizard that will guide you through restoring your files.  First you will choose the type of file you need to recover, then the location, and then start the scan or choose “Enable Deep Scan” if the quick scan doesn’t find the files you need to recover.

PC Inspector File Recovery

 

 

PC Inspector File Recovery is the recovery software that I originally featured in this article back in 2006.  It’s still a decent recovery tool and can be used if you are unable to recover the files you need with Recuva.
When you launch PC Inspector File Recovery, you will need to choose your language. After this, you will be presented with a welcome screen giving you three options.
The first option is “Recover Deleted Files”. This allows you to restore files that have been permanently deleted from the drive. This will only work if the deleted file has not already been overwritten.
The second option is “Find Lost Data”. This allows you to recover data that has been lost due to a system crash. If you choose this option, you will be asked for the “start cluster” and “end cluster”. Leave the default settings to scan the whole drive. The scan could take a couple of hours depending on how large your drive is.
The third option is “Find Lost Drive”. Use this option if your drive letter is not showing up in Windows Explorer or My Computer. It will attempt to connect to the drive and if successful, allow you to browse the data.

Hiren’s BootCD

Hiren’s BootCD allows you to boot into a slimmed down version of Windows called MiniXP from the bootable CD or bootable flash drive and run diagnostic utilities on a problematic computer. Recuva is one of the utilities that comes bundled with Hiren’s so you can run it right from the CD. This is helpful if you don’t have a USB to IDE/SATA adapter or just don’t want to pull the drive from the machine.
You will need to connect another drive to the machine such as a USB flash drive or an external hard drive so you will have a place to copy your recovered data to.

GetDataBack

If the free utilities are not doing the trick then give GetDataBack a try.  GetDataBack is sold in two different versions, one for NTFS and the other for FAT files systems.  If you want to make sure it’s going to work first before you pay $79 for the NTFS version or $69 for the FAT version, they do have a demo version that will allow you to see what files it can recover.  If you like what you see, you can purchase the full version right then and there without even having to close out of the program.  I personally have had lots of success with GetDataBack when other recovery methods have failed.
After launching GetDataBack you will be asked to pick from a selection of data loss scenarios that the drive experienced.  If you aren’t sure, just select “I don’t know.”  After this you will select the drive, the partition on that drive, and then start the scan.

 

Put Your Hard Drive in the Freezer to Recover Data

If all other methods fail, there is one other nontraditional method that may allow you to recover files on your own.  To learn more, check out this post article titled Put Your Hard Drive In The Freezer To Recover Data.  This does not apply to solid state drives.