Author: Alvin Wanjala

Instagram’s standalone IGTV app has been redesigned, giving more focus to the creators, which maybe should be enough to lure more IG users into jumping on board. The homepage has been the primary focus, with the new version now featuring a creator “up top.” This section will feature the creators you follow on Instagram or creators the algorithm thinks you might be interested in. Apart from that, the app is also tailored to help users’ find exciting videos easily displayed in a new Discover tab. The tab will be used to showcase both new and relevant content tailored to capture…

South Korean tech company LG has taken a paradigm shift in its flagship smartphone offerings. The new phones have already received a design overhaul, based on renders shared last week by the company. The company’s new phone design has reimagined the rear camera now arranged in a “falling drops” manner with lenses placed in a descending order based on size. The edges are symmetrically curved all around the device. Bezels are also of similar size. The new design is here to replace both the LG G and V phone brands. The new name is Velvet, and we have already…

If you’ve been, for so long, yearning to be able to continue chatting with your Instagram buddies on your PC here’s some good news: Instagram has finally rolled out DMs on the Web, letting you get and send Instagram Direct messages on desktop. The feature was rolled out by the Facebook-owned photo and video sharing platform towards the end of last week and is now available to everyone around the world. DMs on Web has been under beta testing for a while now – since January – tipping on a future rollout but without a solid date. The feature comes…

Phones play an essential role in our lives. We carry our tiny computers almost anywhere we go and they help us get most things done even without lifting the bulky laptops PCs. But if not used well, like excessive social media, these gadgets have their adverse effects on our personal lives. That is why Android and even iOS has a way to help us keep track of how we use our devices throughout the day as well as take some time off if the need arises. Facebook is also providing its solution to help tackle the recent social media use…

After recently seeding out Android 10 update to the Nokia 2.3, HMD Global is rolling out the same to Nokia 4.2 devices. Announced, as usual, by Chief Product Officer at HMD Global, Juho Sirvakas, the company’s first wave of updates will begin in 42 countries globally. Some few African markets like Tunisia and Libya are included, but sadly, Kenya is not among the first batch. The company says 10 percent of the listed markets(full list here), will start receiving the update immediately while 50% by April 12th. The company will be done with all the markets included in the first…

OnePlus has long launched budget midrange devices that try to measure up to the high-end premium devices. However, that came at a cost and one of the tradeoffs was the unavailability of wireless charging. But in the upcoming OnePlus 8 series, the company is ready, for the first time, to add a wireless charging functionality. The first-time trial is a 30W charging brick that charges wireless dubbed Warp Charge 30 Wireless. The company has bought enough time with which they have been able “to further develop a new technological concept” that meets the Warp Charge standards – unlike the existing…

After several reports about LG ditching its G-series lineup of smartphones, the company has recently teased its new design language that will be featured in a new upcoming series. “Our upcoming smartphone will draw on the rich history of classic LG designs which have always been distinctive at first touch,” said vice president Cha Yong-duk, head of LG’s Mobile Communications Design Lab. “This handset will be a first-look at the competitive edge we will be bringing to every LG smartphone going forward,” he added. The new minimalistic design “is a nod to the natural world with a visual form factor…

As we’re looking forward to Sony’s next-gen console, PlayStation 5(specs), it’s quite apparent that a new console often ships with its controller. This always has been the case for the PlayStation as well as Microsoft’s Xbox consoles. After revealing the ins of the PS5, Sony has also provided the first look at its next-gen controller called DualSense. “DualSense marks a radical departure from our previous controller offerings and captures just how strongly we feel about making a generational leap with PS5,” said Jim Ryan, President & CEO, Sony Interactive Entertainment. Exteriorly, the DualSense wireless controller has a two-toned design, which…

Movie streaming giant Netflix has rolled out a slew of new parental control features giving parents more power in limiting which content their kids can have access to on the platform. The first feature introduced is the ability to protect individual profiles by using a passcode so that kids cannot be able to access unsuitable content on other profiles. Besides, parents can also be able to filter out select titles of movies or TV shows from their kids’ profile – by heading over to “account settings” then “profile and parental controls.” Both of these are part of Netflix’s feature improvement…

Facebook Inc. has launched yet another chat app targeted at couples. The chat app is known as Tuned, and comes from the company’s New Product Experimentation(NPE) team which is tasked which building new social media apps for the company. Tuned is no different from other social media apps, however, it is described as “a private space where you and your significant other can just be yourselves”. With Tuned, couples can share photos, music, chat and even “have a timeline of shared memories” after adding each other’s phone numbers. The app is already live in the United States and Canada, but…