Kenyan technology publication covering smartphones, consumer electronics, apps, telecoms, reviews and technology news.
Instagram TV shortly termed as IGTV was Facebook’s plan of ushering a new era of binge-watching videos on Instagram. The company placed several channels inside the app where users could be able to access IGTV from. Unfortunately, some…
2019 was a very tough year for Huawei. The US-China trade war slowed the company down and this affected sales to some extent. This was the same year the company unveiled the P30 Pro and the Mate 30 Pro, one of its best flagship smartphones…
Wireless headsets are the trendy new items in the smartphone audio scene. Not just for smartphones but for the audio market in general. We have been seeing quite a number of them over the past year or so and their prices keep coming down…
An edit button for you to make up for typos in tweets will “probably” never exist, according to Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey. The company co-founder and CEO confirmed the news in an interview with the Wired where he answered questions that…
By Wale Olokodana, Business Group Lead for Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft Middle East Africa Moving to the cloud is not unlike relocating your business to a prime piece of real estate. The benefits are many, but the transition can be…
Late last year, Tecno announced the “Take Me Home” campaign whose main aim was to reward its customers with Airtime, bus ride coupons, motorbikes and the grand prize of a car worth $ 10,000 (approximately Ksh 1,000,000). The campaign came…
Samsung released its 8K TVs last year. However, these TVs are not yet certified by the 8K Association, a cross-industry group that was formed and tasked to oversee the growth of the 8K TV ecosystem. The association comprises of TV makers…
Google has started testing floating conversations, a feature that is part of a new API for “Bubbles.” What this API does is it enables you to have messages and other functions floating on top of your display inside a bubble. This works…
Android devices cannot record videos larger than 4GB in size, which is funny. The worst part is that it has been the case for quite some time. This is one of the areas where the Android OS has failed terribly in keeping up with the…
Since the US ban kicked in, Huawei has stayed strong, and the company has shown no sign of weakness when it comes to its mobile business. The company is still having a good time with sales, and they even want to be fully independent of…
MediaTek unveiled its Dimensity line of chipsets not so long ago. With this new chipset series, the focus was all on 5G. Apart from that, Dimensity will help the company target the high-end smartphone market now to compete with the likes…
Spam messages have increasingly become a problem in this digital era. Recent reports from Truecaller have shown that Africa has the three top countries where users receive most spam texts in a month. In Ethiopia, for example, a mobile…
Microsoft has announced new modern icons for over 100 of its products, including Windows. The company first unveiled a design overhaul for its products back in 2018 in what it terms as a Fluent Design. Under the new fluent design…
When Infinix launched the S series of devices a few years back, it was mainly focusing on the selfie camera and hence the S. This is still the case today but the company is not just focusing on the selfie camera as the back cameras have…
Infinix has a number of devices with the S series being its camera-centric (specifically the selfie) series. The Infinix S5 is the 6th iteration in this series with the others being the Infinix S, S2, S3, S3X and S4 devices. With the…
Launched globally not so long ago, the Nokia 2.3 is finally available in retail stores in Kenya. The phone was launched in the country early today and is available at a recommended price of Ksh 12,300. This is the latest affordable…
The Infinix S5 is the latest camera-centric smartphone from the company to launch in Kenya. The phone is available in the country starting from Ksh 15,900 on Jumia. With the launch of this phone in the country, let us unbox it and I will…
Apple announced its list of the best apps of 2019 across its platforms recently, and Google has also followed suit. The company revealed the best apps in different categories, including the game of the year, eBooks, best-selling movies,…
Samsung’s custom skin One UI is now easier to customize than before, thanks to the new Good Lock module. On top of Samsung’s Good Lock, which lets you customize various aspects of your phone skin, the company has brought a new module…
Late last week, Safaricom and the Postal Corporation of Kenya (Posta) announced a new partnership around the MPost (Mobile Post Office) service. With this partnership, the hope is to roll out digital Post Office Boxes to more than 5…
Earlier today, Xiaomi officially announced the availability of the Redmi Note 8 in Kenya. This is the latest from the company to officially go in sale in Kenya and you can get it from Jumia starting from Ksh 18,999 for the 3GB + 32GB…
Earlier this month, I reviewed the Tecno Camon 12 which is one of the new devices in the company’s camera-centric series, the Camon series. We have seen some really good cameras in this series before and with the latest iteration, I have…
Officially unveiled in the country less than two weeks ago, the Huawei Y9s is the latest device in the Huawei Y9 series in Kenya. This phone comes with a handful of upgrades when compared to its predecessors, the Huawei Y9 2019 and the…
The Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek has today announced a major partnership with US chipmaker Intel. This comes several months after the company sold its 5G smartphone business to Apple for $1 billion. The company seems to have found a…
