Kenyan technology publication covering smartphones, consumer electronics, apps, telecoms, reviews and technology news.
A couple of days back, Safaricom introduced its latest product, SONGA. This is a music streaming application that the company hopes will be the top music streaming application in Africa. Given that this is a new product, I was excited to…
Google is not very open with the exact numbers when it comes to the total Pixel smartphones it sells. The best the company has said is that shipments doubled in 2017 compared to 2016. Even though Google is being secretive, IDC, a top…
Music streaming is not that big of a business in Kenya (or most developing countries) as it is in the west. Over here, if not through radio, most people illegally get access to new music and they may not even be aware of that. This hurts…
Online buying and selling of goods and services, online transactions, high mobile penetration, fast connectivity, a digital savvy population and an increased consumer spending power are among factors increasingly fueling the penetration…
The United States International University – Africa, in collaboration with Microsoft’s 4Afrika Initiative, has today launched Kenya’s first AppFactory at the Incubation and Innovation Center (I2C) in Nairobi. The I2C AppFactory shall…
Microsoft is planning to do away with Windows 10 S and have it replaced with “S Mode” for all Windows 10 versions. Windows 10 S was the company’s flagship product targeting users in the education sector, it was announced in May last year…
Recently, the Telegram app mysteriously disappeared from the Apple App Store and no one was sure why. Well, we now have an explanation as to why this happened. VentureBeat is reporting that the app was axed from the App Store mainly due to…
HMD Global officially brought back Nokia smartphones towards the end of 2016 with the launch of the Nokia 6 in China. This was the device that the company used to test the waters in China before making it available to users in other…
Samsung is yet to update any of its existing devices with Google’s latest mobile OS variant, Android Oreo. This will change soon as the company is believed to be finalizing things before pushing the update to some of its devices on the…
If you are a regular user of Instagram Stories, you should brace yourself to see more ads when using that feature. The company announced this a couple of days ago revealing that users should expect more paid advertisements on their…
Tecno Mobile has officially unveiled its first smartphone with an almost bezel-less display in Kenya. We saw this trend with a handful of manufacturers last years and Tecno is finally joining the club with the official unveiling of the…
If you live in Kenya, you have probably heard about Jamii Telecommunications’ new product, Faiba 4G. The service went live over a month ago and even though it is not available countrywide, it has sparked interest among users mainly because…
in 2017, we saw a rise in the number of smartphones with thin bezels and 18:9 aspect ratio. For those who do not know about 18:9 aspect ratio, well it refers to the width and height of the phone. Most smartphones we have been using have…
I have been using the Infinix Zero 5 Pro for sometime now. This is the fifth smartphone in the Infinix Zero series, a line up made of camera-centric devices from the company. This was the main goal but given that consumers want high…
If you know about the history of Nokia smartphones, then you know that the company did not go with Android from the get go. As other manufacturers embraced Android, Nokia chose to go with Windows Phone but that was not that good of a…
Last year, Facebook unveiled the Messenger Lite app for Android targeting users who find the main Messenger app heavy and data hungry. This is one of the many ‘Lite’ apps we have been seeing recently as developers try and target users in…
Not so long ago, Google announced that YouTube Go, the light version of the YouTube app for Android, is out of beta. This app was originally launched in September 2016 but in beta and was only available in India. In February this year, the…
OPPO has been on the headlines so much the last few weeks. The company’s latest device, the F5, launched in the country recently and this is why we have been talking about the brand so much. After the F5, the company unveiled the F5 Youth,…
A few weeks ago, Safaricom announced that it had plans to add M-Shwari loan and saving services to the mySafaricom app. This was during the M-Shwari 5th anniversary celebration where it was announced that there are between 250,000 and…
Twitter wants us to create as many threads as we possibly can on its platform. The company has made some changes to its platform to make this possible. With the latest changes, users will be able to tap a button while writing their tweet…
Back in September, Apple officially unveiled its latest smartphones, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X. The iPhone X was the star of the show because of its unique design. The front of the iPhone X is all screen with very thin…
The OPPO F5 is the latest smartphone from the company you can get in Kenya. The phone is available for Ksh 32,000, within the same price range as the OPPO F3 that it is supposed to be replacing. The F5 is another camera-centric smartphone…
As we look forward to closing the year, Jumia Travel takes a keen look at emerging and growing hotel technologies that will shape the new year. Voice Adaptation, anyone home? Voice is no doubt an ongoing craze across various industries;…
When it comes to video quality on mobile device, HDR (High Dynamic Range) is as good as it gets. It widens the colour range and improves luminosity range and this leads to greater colour accuracy and contrast. As from Android 7.0 Nougat,…
