Last week, during Twitter’s Analyst Day presentation, the company revealed working on a couple of new eCommerce-oriented features. Twitter’s foray into eCommerce would follow other social media platforms, like Facebook and Instagram, who have cast their net wider to cash in on the eCommerce boom. The pandemic’s advent presented a unique opportunity for eCommerce as the only way for stuck-at-home people to buy goods. Twitter surely doesn’t want to miss out on the boom, and its interest is slowly solidifying after the company was spotted testing a new Twitter card targeted at eCommerce. The new card includes a prominent Shop…
Author: Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala has been writing about technology for over 2 years(and counting). He writes about different topics in the consumer tech space. He loves streaming music, programming, and gaming during downtimes.
Xiaomi’s Redmi Note series is one of its popular smartphones due to its budget focus. But partly because of their strong feature stock paired with a competitive price. To date, Xiaomi has shipped over 200 million Redmi Note series phones globally. The Redmi Note series’ impressive spec sheet will get even better this year as it will include Super AMOLED displays instead of IPS LCDs. This is a first for the Redmi Note series. Xiaomi’s Global Vice President Manu Kumar Jain confirmed the news on Twitter. Still, he held on to the juicy details if all models of the upcoming…
Huawei Mobile Services, which includes App Gallery, is Huawei’s alternative ecosystem to Google Mobile Services(GMS). The company pivoted its focus to App Gallery after the US ban, which restricted the Chinese tech giant from pre-installing essential Google apps, including Gmail, and Play Store, on its devices. The company’s recent figures show its ecosystem continues to grow despite the rapidly shrinking smartphone sales. According to the company, App Gallery now has over 530 million active users every month. In-app distribution on App Gallery has also increased by a whopping 83 percent year-over-year in 2020, helping the ecosystem reach a total of…
Since the notch display design trend started, many companies have had their takes to provide more screen real estate with less interruption. The notch came in handy on the road to offer more display space at first, but smartphone makers have transitioned from that to the now ubiquitous hole punch. And most recently, the race is to offer under-display selfie cameras, which seems like the ultimate answer to this quest. Apple is the only major company still making devices with a 2017-esque notch design. But the company is now looking to make a change. A report from the reliable analyst…
Instagram has announced Live Rooms, the latest addition to its feature stock. Live Rooms will allow Instagram users to go Live on the platform with up to three additional users. The feature doubles down on the current Live feature that only permits two users to be on a live stream at the same time. Live Rooms, the company says, will hopefully open up the platform to offer more opportunities to users, especially creative folk. “We hope that doubling up on Live will open up more creative opportunities — start a talk show, host a jam session or co-create with other…
Sony launched the PS5 towards the end of 2020 will all the bells and whistles gamers really need to play the latest AA games. From faster SSD storage for faster loading speeds to a more powerful CPU and GPU combo plus better graphics. Since launch, however, the PS5 has had one big limitation – storage space. Out of the box, the console ships with 825GB of SSD storage, but only 667GB is actually available for gamers to install compatible games, apps, and other media. And despite the existence of an M.2 SSD expansion slot, it is still locked, which means…
Huawei has started rolling out its latest custom ROM, EMUI 11, to the P30 and Mate 20 family of devices. The latest ROM update is in line with the company’s update schedule revealed in November 2020. However, the big thing to note is that EMUI 11 coming to the P30, P30 Pro, and Mate 20 series is based on Android 10 and not the latest Android 11. The update is still limited to select users, so it might be some time before you can see it on your end. Huawei planned to roll out the update to these devices in…
At the launch of the new Redmi K40 series in China, Redmi shared the success of the outgoing K30 series unveiled in 2020. According to Lu Weibing, General Manager of Xiaomi’s Redmi brand and President of Xiaomi China, the company sold 11 million units of the Redmi K30 series in the international market. The series has a diverse number of memory models, including standard Redmi K30, Redmi K30 Pro, K30 Extreme Commemorative Edition, K30 S, and 5G variants. Xiaomi recently unveiled the successor to 2020’s K30 series, which are expected to go on sale this month, starting with its home…
Samsung has announced its latest Galaxy A series phone, the Galaxy A32 4G. Galaxy A32 has an identical 6.4-inch Full HD+( 1080 x 2400pixels) Super AMOLED screen as its predecessor, Galaxy A31. However, this time around, Samsung has stepped up the display refresh rate to 90Hz. The display has an identical waterdrop notch at the top center, home to a single 20MP f/2.2 sensor. On the rear is a quad-camera setup with a 64MP main sensor instead of the 48MP tucked at the back of the A31. Besides, there is an 8MP f/2.2 ultra-wide, 5MP f/2.4 macro, and a 5MP…
Qualcomm’s 2021’s flagship processor, Snapdragon 888, is the company’s top-of-the-line chip, but it is yet to power more devices. And the few devices running the chip don’t come cheap. Take, for example, Samsung’s Galaxy S21 series or even Xiaomi’s Mi 11 series. Samsung Galaxy S21 series starts at Ksh 100,000, slightly above Xiaomi’s latest flagship, MI 11. But Xiaomi is a company known for its value for money proposition. And they couldn’t rest till they’ve included the same Snapdragon 888 chip in more models, but for less. Xiaomi’s sub-brand Redmi has announced the Redmi K40 series powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon…