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SIM card for Muslims
By Washington Odipo | on November 21, 2013 | 0 Comment
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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
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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
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Service (ISS) that will enable users to
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accurate prayer timing, convert dates
between Gregorian and Arabic calendars
Pay TV providers are right not to
and automatically ban incoming calls
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during prayer time.
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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
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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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