2015 is a year we saw some smartphone makers become really scared and changed their marketing style to reach out to more markets than their home market.
It was the year some of the smartphone makers selling in Nigeria started to push better products. Some makers who never made phones with fingerprint scanners like TECNO and Innjoo debuted their first finger print scanner phones.
But what phones made the Top 5 Android smartphones in Nigeria with respect to popularity, appeal they gather with people as well as slug of features?
No 5: TECNO Camon C8
If not that this phone is not a flagship product, it would have come at number 1. This is the phone that turned many people into believers of the TECNO brand. It is a great phone that captures excellent photographs, great design/finishing, superb size and great price.
The phone needs no introduction really. Just Google Camon C8 and see what others have to say about the phone.
Although it is a 1 GB of RAM phone and doesn’t have finger print scanner, it is a winner nonetheless. The beautiful pouch that comes with it as well as the fact that it is dual SIM makes it the ideal phone you want to take while travelling.
No 4: Huawei Ascend Mate 7 
Huawei is not very popular among Nigerians. But the smartphone brand is the top 2 smartphone selling brand in the world. Maybe it is due to the fact that they name is hard to pronounce for Nigerians.
The Huawei Mate 7 is a phone that was released into the Nigerian market in 2015, but was made available in other Markets in 2014. A dual SIM phone that shipped with KitKat, 4.4.4 Android OS, but updragdable to Marshmallow 6.0. Dual SIM phone with finger print scanner.
One place where the phone wins is its ability to work with Spectranet 4G/LTE network. Popping in a Spectranet SIM and tweaking the setting a little bit and you can start rocking true 4G SIM on a smartphone. Coupled with the fact that Spectranet plans are affordable. N7,000 will give you 20 GB of data for 30 days.
The Internal storage in 32 GB at 3 GB of ram which makes it a breeze when you are using it. There is a separate slot for the micro SD. So you can use an SD card while using 2 SIM cards. It supports micro SD card up to 128 GB. But the phone is still selling for N117,000—a whole N17,000 above the N100,000 mark.
No 3: HTC One M9
With design not far of from that one its predesesor which makes it a lot harder to spot the difference between the M8 and the M9. Most of the changes on the One M9 is much on the insdie.
Why is the One M9 on this list?
Glossy premium metal finish with a double tab to wake when the phone is on sleep mode. The previous One M8 has one of the best 1080p display and with the One M9 it is quad HD display LCD with great color at great angle. Has the best speakers in any smartphone. Has Dolby surround sound just like the TECNO Phantom 5, but the One M9 does not have a finger print scanner.
Like most Android phones that were released in 2015 it spots a 3 GB of RAM internal memory, with expandable storage up to 200 GB. The rear view camera is 20 MP and can record video up to 2160p (4K video). This makes everything on the phone to be snappy and zippy.
Overall the battery life is descent. A pretty good phones you’d want to be seen with as people still admire HTC as a phone brand, even though they are not having a large market share like they used to.
No 2: TECNO Phantom 5
This is TECNO’s first foray into a truly premium smartphone. The Phantom 5 screams premium in all angles—coming in Champaign Gold and Space Grey, with very thin bezels a superior 5.5 inch FHD display that is sweet to hold and flaunt. The hardware performance, OS upgrade Potential, shinny and nice will get people talking to you, with a slug of features that are packed into it.
One thing that stands out with the Phantom 5 is that it has one of the fastest finger print scanner on a phone in the whole 2015—faster than iPhone 6 and Samsung GALAXY S6 Edge. Same speed with the fingerprint scanner of the iPhone 6s. However, with the iPhone 6s, you need to wake up the screen before using fingerprint to unlock the phone, but with the Phantom 5, just place your finger at the back of the phone even when the phone is in sleep mode and the phone wakes up and gets unlocked at the same time—that’s solid and fast.
With octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU, a MediaTek MT6753 chipset, the Phantom 5 is a behemoth—a phone you can throw any activity to and it will handle it with ease, no stress.
The phone is a bargain. However, with other flagship products, you’ll have to break the bank to buy them—especially those that have similar premium feel and features that the Phantom 5 has. TECNO Phantom 5 costs only N69,900 in phone retail stores.
No 1: Samsung GALAXY S6 Edge
This phone is an all round winner. Wins with its design. There is no other phone in the world right now that has this curved edge display at both sides. Samsung is bold with this feature and its gets people’s attention. The gold version of the S6 Edge is a beauty to behold. This curved/edge display doesn’t add much to the phone in the form of function, but makes it really beautiful—a phone you’ll want to flaunt. A splendid accessory to go with your dressing.
However, the battery is not as impressive. If you are out and about, you want to go with a power bank.
