Must Read: Why Whatsapp May Lose Many Nigerian Subscribers.

This is no more news that Whatsapp, the world's most prominent informing application won't be accessible on the BlackBerry platform come 2017.

What may be news notwithstanding, particularly to the Facebook claimed organization, is that numerous Nigerian BlackBerry subscribers says they will pick the Canadian portable brand over Whatsapp. Even though the BlackBerry may have lost face everywhere throughout the world,it is still a dearly beloved brand in the world’s most populous black nation for a variety of reasons. The simple to-use physical keyboard associated with many of the older blackberry models is one of them

Despite the fact that Android and Apple devices have consigned the physical QWERTY to the medieval times, it is still a component adored by numerous Blacks.Another point to note is the price factor.

As an aftereffect of the BlackBerry boom in Nigeria few years ago, the country’s major networks designed special services for subscribers who used the brand..The average customers internet needs can be met with a one-off payment of N1000 a month.

This element, occupied on different stages makes the utilization of information more costly on different Smartphones.Caterer, Princess Nwadinobi is attracted to the blackberry brand for this very reason.
“I don’t really like the fact that Whatsapp is leaving BlackBerry. With a cheap subscription fee, I can browse easily every month on my BlackBerry unlike other phone brands that will cost me more.

I think regardless i'll adhere to my BlackBerry since I can talk and work with my clients through the BlackBerry dispatcher and Facebook delivery person. Despite the fact that gadget darlings, Nigerians are feeling the smash of a diminishing economy, with the dollar rising speedier against the naira like some Ijebu garri in cool water. For a large number of blackberry clients the nation over, getting another gadget essentially to oblige an application won't not be top need.

Mr. Sanmi Mosiko for example, a student at Kogi state University is more interested using his finances to further his education. He told Glamtech: “I won’t get a new phone even when I can no longer use Whatsapp on my BlackBerry. I’d rather do without the app.”
There are still a couple who may leave BlackBerry for Whatsapp. Teacher, Miss Amarachi Williams advised Glamtech that she would need to get herself another telephone that makes utilization of the application in light of the fact that whatsapp is essential to her.

Be that as it may, it is unlikely that you’ll find a BlackBerry shelf when you go to a dealer in brand new devices-at least not in the Lagos metropolis. But that doesn’t mean that BBs are no longer sold in Nigeria.

Much the same as with nearly everything 'Tokunbo', the second-hand portable business sector here is a flourishing one, and Blackberries are still a noteworthy part of that business sector.

Nigerians are as yet utilizing Blackberries each day and that is unrealistic to change overnight or even in the following three months when Whatsapp will say farewell to Blackberry.