On the 27^th of October Kalakoda Boxing Promotions and Kwesé Friday Fight Nights host another bumper event in Accra, the spiritual home of African boxing.

The event will be staged at Africa’s only purpose build boxing facility the Bukom Boxing Arena, the 3500 seater venue will provide the back drop to 7 bouts with 2 WABU West Africa titles featuring some top talent from across West Africa.

The event will open with an Afro Beat concert with local artists performing, confirmed musicians will be M3DAL, La Memme Gang, Joey B, DJ Vyrusky and Kalakoda’s resident DJ Switch. Fans are urged to get to the event from as early as 3pm so as to enjoy the additional entertainment on offer. In addition DJ Switch will do battle with DJ Vyruskly in between the rounds to keep the crowd entertained and engaged.

“Ghana and West Africa is a new territory for us and we are excited about the many possibilities and opportunities that exist. The local fans are very knowledgeable and passionate about the sport, and to stage an event in Bukom where greats like Azumah Nelson call home is an honor” Jeremy Bean – Kalakoda Promotions Marketing Director

The fight bill is topped by an all Ghana affair, promising local Cruiserweight Abraham Tabul takes on Stephen Abbey for the vacant WABU Title, both these fighters can bang and a puncher’s shoot out is expected. The co main event see Sie Palenfo from the Ivory Coast take on Samuel Turkson from Ghana for the vacant WABU Welterweight Title.

“I don’t know much about my opponent from Ivory Coast, but I am very fit and ready to go, the title is staying in Accra” – Samuel Turkson

The remainder of the bill is made up of fighters from Cameroon and Ghana giving the event a true West African flavor and showcasing some great up and coming boxers. With a monthly frequency of events and a brand that is taking a well packaged boxing product to host cities across the continent, the Kalakoda Promotions and Kwesé Sport partnership has really breathed new life into African Boxing.

The event will go out live across the continent on Kwesé Free Sport, KS 1, Soweto TV and The Kwesé Mobile App.

The Friday Fight Nights events and Kalakoda Promotion’s positioning sees a fusion of world class boxing, music and popular culture, a knock out combination where the fans can’t lose.

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Source: Kalakoda promotions

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The operating system, developed by Google, is usually seen as a rival to Microsoft’s own Windows Phone OS.

Microsoft said the Nokia X2 offered it a way to hook users into its cloud-based services, several of which come pre-installed as apps.

One expert said the alternative would have been leaving “money on the table”.

“I still find it astounding that Microsoft is making Android phones, but there seems to be a steely determination to take a more open approach for the greater good of the whole company rather than just the Windows Phone platform,” said Ben Wood, from the telecoms consultancy CCS Insight.

“If they don’t do this, then someone else is going to get the business.

“I also think it’s a reflection of the fact that Nokia’s budget Asha line of feature phones was unable to compete with entry-level Android mobiles.”

Microsoft completed its takeover of Nokia’s handset division on 25 April at a cost of 5.4bn euros ($7.4bn; £4.4bn).

App gap’

The X2 is the follow-up to the original X, launched in February before Nokia sold its mobile business.

The original model became the best-selling mobile in Pakistan and the third best-selling handset in India – according to market-research company GfK – as well as achieving strong sales in Russia, Kenya and Nigeria.

The new device features:

• a slightly bigger 4.3in (11cm) screen
• 1GB of RAM – double the amount of memory previously included
• a more powerful battery
• the addition of a front-facing camera for selfies

It will cost 99 euro ($135; £80) when released in July.

Microsoft’s video chat app Skype, its Outlook email service and its OneDrive internet storage apps all come pre-loaded.

The firm is also promoting some of its other apps – including Bing Search, the Yammer business-focused social network and the OneNote idea jotting service – as optional free downloads for the device.

“The whole idea of bringing more people into Microsoft Cloud through these services is the very core of the strategy,” Jussi Nevanlinna, vice-president of mobile phones product marketing at Microsoft, told the BBC.

“In fact we’re ahead of other Android devices [in this respect].

“But I want to stress that Lumia remains our primary smartphone strategy and that Nokia X is a stepping stone to it.”

Missing apps

The tile-based homescreen and ability to see apps displayed as a scrollable list on the X2 mirrors the Window Phone user interface, which might help encourage consumers to later make the leap to Microsoft’s more expensive Lumia range.

However, Mr Wood said there was a risk that the users would instead switch to other Android models since Windows Phone still lags behind its rival in terms of the amount of third-party software it offers.

“That’s the calculated risk that Microsoft is taking,” he explained.

“The firm needs to rapidly close the app gap between the experience on an Android phone and the experience on a Windows Phone.

“But by going down this route it will at least inform Microsoft as to which apps it had better urgently get if it wants to secure people on the upgrade cycle.”

Windows Phone now boasts over 250,000 apps including Instagram and Vine, which were high-profile absentees until November.

But several banking apps, games, video on-demand software, and apps used to control wearable fitness trackers – all available on Android – remain absent.

The Nokia X2 can run the bigger library of Android apps, but unless users hack the device they can only browse available software via the Nokia Store – which excludes some programs – rather than the more fully-stocked Google Play.

Source : BBC

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With a 5″ In-Plane Switching captive colour touch screen, the Nokia XL brings the large screen experience at an unbelievably affordable price point. The device further augments the imaging experience with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls on Skype and a 5-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and flash.

It comes with a powerful 2000 mAh battery, rated for 16 hours of talktime and up to 41 days of standby.

The new Nokia XL is armed with the Fastlane experience which has been completely re-imagined for the Nokia X family.

Fastlane is now more customizable and social.

Users can select what appears on their Fastlane feed, read notifications from their social networks and update their status from within Fastlane, making the experience even more productive.

The Nokia X family offers a variety of choices to consumers at different price points.

After receiving a great response with the Nokia X, which introduced the category to the sales market, Nokia is now bringing the much awaited Nokia XL and offering consumers and opportunity to go large with amazing X family experience on more  screen real estate.

The Nokia XL flagship offering within the Nokia X family, comes packed with a 5’’ IPS capacitive touch large screen experience, a superlative front camera and a wide array of apps, offering a great Smartphone experience at an affordable price point.

“The Nokia X family, flag shipped now by XL serves as the perfect introduction to the world of Android apps, coupled with signature Nokia experiences, and the most popular Microsoft services like Skype and One drive with 10GB of cloud storage’’ said Debbie Shepard – Head of Marketing, Nokia West and Central Africa, a subsidiary of Microsoft Mobile.

Consumers can access and download a wide array of Android apps, which can be side loaded as well as downloaded through Nokia’s own store and several popular third-party app stores.

Leading global apps will be available at launch for the Nokia X family of devices, including Facebook, LINE Free Voice and Messages, LINE Camera, LINE Bubble, Picsart, Plants vs. Zombies 2, Real Football 2014, Skype, Spotify, Swift key, Twitter, Viber, Vine, WeChat, and also the BBM chat application which is currently available on the Nokia X series.

The Nokia XL device is the next offering in the Nokia X family which includes Nokia X, launched earlier this year in Nigeria.

Source: Nokia Ghana

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