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Home About Us Advertise Contact SEARCH... SIM card for Muslims By Washington Odipo | on November 21, 2013 | 0 Comment I’m not a religious nor a spiritual person so when I read some headlines involving religion I don’t have much of an opinion. But being a person with Samsung Ch@t 222 that among other features has this Gibla direction under Apps that up until now has remained a msytery, I thought that SIM card for Muslims is worth my attention. Google has since then informed me that Gibla is “the direction of the Kaaba (the sacred building at Mecca), to which Muslims turn at prayer.” I understand that when Muslims pray, they do so facing the sacred building at Mecca. This however might be very hard to achieve especially when a Muslim finds himself in new territory. To help them work around this predicament, a number of phone manufacturers like LG, Samsung and any other have been incorporated in their devices features for providing Gilba direction and other Islamic useful tools like determining prayer times. Smartphones also have numerous apps that can be downloaded to help provide the Islamic functionalities. But Yiannis Hatzopoulis, a Greek Engineer, thought about all the solutions available in the market for Muslims and still felt that these are not enough. He reasoned that most Muslims in Asia and Africa have more than 1 billion feature phones that do not have the Islamic features and cannot have these features installed as they do not have smartphones. To solve this, he came up with the idea of designing an Islamic SIM Service (ISS) that will enable users to track the direction of the Kaa’bah, receive accurate prayer timing, convert dates between Gregorian and Arabic calendars and automatically ban incoming calls during prayer time. Hatzopoulis defended his idea of SIM card EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION Subscribe to be notified via email every time we have a new post. Email Address Subscribe POPULAR COMMENTS LATEST TODAY WEEK MONTH ALL KCSE 2012 Online Results Tecno Phantom A - Great Phone At Amazing Price Point Was Kiss TV stealing DStv's content? Pay TV providers are right not to offer FTAs for free KCPE 2013 Online Results HOME STARTUPS CONTACT TALKING POINT SOCIAL MEDIA GADGETS BUSINESS TECH SIM card for Muslims | Kachwanya.comKachwanya.com http://www.kachwanya.com/sim-card-muslims/ 1 of 3 15/01/2014 11:22 μμ
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SIM card for Muslims
By Washington Odipo | on November 21, 2013 | 0 Comment
I’m not a religious nor a spiritual person so when I read some headlines involving religion I don’t
have much of an opinion. But being a person with Samsung Ch@t 222 that among other features
has this Gibla direction under Apps that up until now has remained a msytery, I thought that SIM
card for Muslims is worth my attention. Google has since then informed me that Gibla is “the
direction of the Kaaba (the sacred building at Mecca), to which Muslims turn at prayer.”
I understand that when Muslims pray, they do so facing the sacred building at Mecca. This
however might be very hard to achieve especially when a Muslim finds himself in new territory.
To help them work around this predicament, a number of phone manufacturers like LG,
Samsung and any other have been incorporated in their devices features for providing Gilba
direction and other Islamic useful tools like determining prayer times. Smartphones also have
numerous apps that can be downloaded to help provide the Islamic functionalities.
But Yiannis Hatzopoulis, a Greek
Engineer, thought about all the solutions
available in the market for Muslims and
still felt that these are not enough. He
reasoned that most Muslims in Asia and
Africa have more than 1 billion feature
phones that do not have the Islamic
features and cannot have these features
installed as they do not have
smartphones. To solve this, he came up
with the idea of designing an Islamic SIM
Service (ISS) that will enable users to
track the direction of the Kaa’bah, receive
accurate prayer timing, convert dates
between Gregorian and Arabic calendars
and automatically ban incoming calls
during prayer time.
Hatzopoulis defended his idea of SIM card
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for Muslims saying that in most place in
Africa and Asia, there isn’t enough coverage
of 3G network that would support seamless
functionality of apps so smartphone users still
need the cheap alternative in a SIM card for Muslims. The SIM card has since been show cased in
Cape Town. Hopefully mass availability of the SIM card will be sooner than later.
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Author Description
Washington Odipo is the Managing Editor at Kachwanya.com. When not blogging
Washington indulges in other tech businesses, playing chess, being with his
family, and traveling. He is a trained Food Technologist and Researcher with
experience in Sugar Processing and Business Development.
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