Author: Alvin Wanjala

Samsung is about to announce its new foldable device at the upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event next week Wednesday. The foldable phone is a successor to the company’s Galaxy Fold and rumor suggests it will sell under the Galaxy Z Fold 2 name. This was later confirmed by a blurry image of a 5G variant of the device booting up on Twitter. In the biggest leak yet, the upcoming foldable phone has been revealed in 3D renders which give us the first look at the device. From the renders, the foldable phone exhibits massive design improvements than its much-troubled predecessor. The…

Back in May, Spotify added a new feature called Group sessions that lets premium subscribers share live playlists. The feature allowed one user to act as a host, then others join by scanning a QR code manually to form a group listening experience. It allowed all group members to play, pause, skip, and even add tracks to an existing shared queue. Recently Spotify has updated that functionality even further to favor remote sharing of live playlists. The added support for remote listening breaks the initial distance limitation in Group Sessions. Group sessions now allows link sharing, so you can share…

Xiaomi is working on a back-tap gesture feature in MIUI 12. First spotted by XDA, the feature will let you double tap or triple tap at the back of your phone to initiate some actions. Embedded inside MIUI 12’s latest Beta builds, the feature could let you customize the results of your back taps. Back tap gestures will enable you to do different things like taking a screenshot, turning on the torch, swiping down the control center or notification shade and also launching the camera. Back Tap gestures are still under early development and the publication didn’t get it to…

Google Chrome has banked on native lazy-loading to help save users’ data. Lazy-loading is quite a common practice on the web these days which when embraced by websites saves you data by only loading images when they’re about to come into view. Chrome has supported native lazy-loading since Chrome 76 that saw light of the day in 2019. Tiny improvements coming to Chrome in the future are aimed to further help cut down on data consumption while browsing the web. That will be achieved by delaying when images that are out of view load. Google Chrome will also add variance…

Samsung already pinned a date on its next Galaxy Unpacked Event on August 5, which is just a week from today. It’s on next week Wednesday to be specific. Roughly, we already know what to expect – five “power” devices. Samsung has published another video teasing about the event and the upcoming devices. From the 30 seconds video posted on Samsung’s YouTube channel, the five devices are outlined from a far. Here’s the Unpacked trailer; From the right is Samsung’s Galaxy Note with an S-pen, followed by the second-generation Galaxy Fold, then Galaxy Watch 3 and Galaxy Buds Live placed…

The talk of WhatsApp adding support for multiple devices, so you could use the same number on different devices, is not new. However, recent reports suggest that we might be able to see the feature sooner or later. The report first emerged in 2019, from WABetaInfo, a blog that keeps track of any new features being added on WhatsApp. Surprisingly, despite being a feature that many have been waiting for on the platform and has been teased over several times by WABetaInfo, it had not made it to the Beta channel yet. The latest WhatsApp beta changes that. In WhatsApp…

Being the most versatile instant chat app, Telegram has clinched that position by being steady fast in adding new features. With a multitude of features already available, Telegram keeps adding more and more. In the latest update, the platform is also tweaking a few things to make your experience even better. Telegram has released yet another update across mobile (Android, and iOS), and PC with a slew of additional features. 2GB File Sharing Limit Since 2014, Telegram has allowed its users to share files of up to 1.5GB each – way larger than what WhatsApp allows. If you were feeling…

Corning, the company behind Gorilla Glass, has announced a new iteration to its tough glass. The new Corning Gorilla Glass is simply known as Victus, changing the company’s naming convention which has long been using numbers – Gorilla Glass 3, 5 etc. Victus is touted to have significant improvement in both drop and scratch performance. For instance, Corning says Victus survived drops onto “hard, rough surfaces” from up to 2 meters, making it twice as tough as Gorilla Glass 6. Check out Corning’s Product Sheet for the nitty-gritty. The huge leap in performance, according to Corning senior VP John…

WhatsApp has just released a new app update for iOS users on the App Store published yesterday. The new version of WhatsApp for iOS has been added with several new features, some of which were already added on Android a while ago – I’m talking about QR codes. Here’s What’s New: Animated Stickers As WABetaInfo tipped at the beginning of the month, WhatsApp on iOS now supports animated stickers. The App Store listing says you can find the first set of new animated packs in the sticker store. Animated stickers, like emojis, are becoming a standard for chat apps,…

Facebook is now testing a new, cleaner design for Pages. The main highlight of the design is doing away with the page likes count as well as the like button. In general, the facelift is meant to make it easier for those who visit Facebook pages to get to know more about the page without a hassle. The new design gives more priority to crucial information about the page. Also, as you can see from the image below, Facebook Pages will only have a follow button. You won’t be able to “like” a page anymore. Typically, liking a page automatically…