Author: Alvin Wanjala

Today, Xiaomi has officially unveiled the much-anticipated Redmi K30 Pro. The phone supersedes last year’s value for money champion, known as Redmi K20 Pro in Asian markets and Mi 9T Pro globally. Like last year’s Redmi K20 Pro, it offers an entirely uninterrupted display achieved by placing the selfie camera in a pop-up camera module. However, unlike its predecessor, the phone has been added with an additional camera, totaling to four. The back sports a circular camera module with a 64-megapixel primary sensor, a 13-megapixel ultrawide, a 2-megapixel macro camera, and a 5-megapixel telephoto lens. The display is a 6.67-inch…

Samsung’s in-house chipsets now rank third in terms of global market share. As a result, Apple’s A13 Bionic chipsets have been pushed to the fourth position. Research data from Counterpoint Research says the company managed to amass a 14.1 percent market share, 2.2 percent up from the previous year. The growth was fueled by the company’s substantial growth in the North American and Indian markets. However, the market saw a decline, with only two makers – Huawei and Samsung – recording growth. Apple saw its market share dip by 0.5 percent to 13.1 percent. Throughout the year under review, Qualcomm…

Staying at home is not meant for many – it can be quite dull if you’re idling around. However, thanks to the technology we have right now, this doesn’t have to be the case.  What if you can be able to binge-watch movies with your friends or family in isolation? Sounds good, right? Well, this can be done using a simple Chrome Extension dubbed Netflix Party. With it, you can watch movies together with your friends remotely. The good thing? This extension is free – you don’t have to fetch your credit card at all. Plus, there’s a group chat…

The coronavirus outbreak, declared as a pandemic earlier this month by WHO has already taken the world by storm. Countries are shutting down, and the tech world continues to take the hit as time goes by. So far, conferences have been canceled, stores shut down, and worst of all, supply chains are being strained and sales have taken a big hit, too. Most companies opted to host online-only events, but Google isn’t taking matters lightly. The company initially switched to host a live stream, but that has been canceled as well. “Out of concern for the health and safety of…

Windows 10 dates its way back to 2015 when it was officially unveiled to the public. It marked the company’s new change in design aesthetics, a big leap from Windows 7.  Five years later, the company has hit the 1 billion mark and ready to overhaul the full OS design. The new design tipped by Surface head honcho Panos Panay adopts Microsoft’s Fluent Design System, which the company has been rolling out slowly in its portfolio of apps. The video, according to Honcho, was made by the team to celebrate its recent achievement of amassing 1 billion monthly active users…

Facebook has finally wrapped up tuning its desktop version to go black. The dark theme is being introduced in tow with the company’s new cleaner design promised at last year’s F8 conference. According to the company, the new design will be available to a “majority of people on Facebook.” Once the full rollout begins, Facebook will enable the new interface to everyone across their website by default. Before that, you’ll be glad to know that the new design can be accessed when you head over to Facebook.com > Settings Menu > “See New Facebook.” For now, there’s still a way…

In what seems like a major leap on the software, Google has begun rolling out a live transcription feature on Google Translate. “…starting today, you can use the Google Translate Android app to transcribe foreign language speech as it’s happening,” said Sami Iqram, Product Manager, Google Translate. Android users will now be able to get help from Google’s translation software live and on-the-go in eight different languages. The software can lively transcribe English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Thai. But as we move forward, the company will also roll out support for more languages. Consequently, Google has added…

Sony has finally shared some key specifications of the PS5. The company held a deep dive live YouTube presentation yesterday with system architect, Mark Cerny, bracing the stage. The seemingly developer-focused presentation didn’t fully satisfy everyone’s curiosity. Apart from sharing the nitty-gritty details and the philosophy behind the new console Mark Cerny also detailed on what really matters for the end consumer – in the most technical way possible. Next time, here’s what really matters Sony… “what speeds are talking about?” Like the Xbox Series X, the PS5 has AMD’s Custom Zen 2 CPU composed of 8 Zen 2 cores…

Ever since the Galaxy S20 got into the mainstream media, it has been met with criticism on the software level. The camera app, specifically, was bashed by several reviewers for its slow and poor autofocus capabilities. However, the hardware is amazing – as they say, Samsung always delivers. The software is ironing out camera app problems, fastening the autofocus feature – the main problem many have complained about the series, especially on the Galaxy S20 Ultra. The update is available across the entire series – S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra, but there’s a caveat. This software, according to reports,…

Nokia is finally rolling out Android 10 update to its budget-oriented Nokia 2.2 smartphone which was launched in 2019. The phone features a 5.71in IPS LCD display, a quad-core processor from MediaTek and is powered by a 3,000mAh battery. Out-of-the-box, the Nokia 2.2 shipped with Android 9.0 Pie, at the time, the latest Android update in the public. Nokia has preached a mantra of providing updates for two years, and its entry-level devices are no exception. For Nokia 2.2, that doesn’t change at all. Announcing the news recently, HMD’s executive who is fond of providing every update on the company’s…