Author: Alvin Wanjala

POCO’s season 2 is finally here. The company tipped of an upcoming smartphone last week after a number of rumors suggesting this phone was under development. There was, however, still doubt of the official naming of the device with both POCO F2 and X2 being tipped here and there. However, the company laid to rest all the rumour mills on the possible naming scheme yesterday, by officially teasing the official name. POCO’s second smartphone ever and its first smartphone as a standalone brand will be the POCO X2. The company is set to unveil the phone on February 4th -…

Last month WhatsApp officially ditched support for Windows-powered smartphones. But it’s about time the same applies for old Android phones and iPhones. The company announced that the end of support is mainly because old devices won’t be able to accommodate the new features planned to be availed on the platform in the future. WhatsApp will end support for any Android running Android 2.3.7 (and earlier versions) and iPhones with iOS 8 and below as of January 31st. Starting February 1st, the popular instant messaging platform will no longer work on these devices. WhatsApp already bared users with Android versions 2.3.7…

Netflix subscribers in Kenya will now pay in the local currency. The company announced its plans by sending an email to paying subscribers on Tuesday this week. Netflix will switch to the new model in your next billing after the announcement date. This, Netflix says, “is part of our ongoing work to improve Netflix for our members in Kenya.” Netflix has been in Kenya since early 2016 and, to date, has been charging its customers in US dollars. Elsewhere – mostly, in developed economies – the company charges its users in local currencies. Through the new change, Kenyan Netflix subscribers…

Last week Xiaomi officially announced that it is spinning off its POCO sub-brand to stand on its own. We have seen rumours trying to pinpoint the likely specs of the company’s first device as a brand, which will possibly be named the Poco F2. In an interview with Gadgets360, Manmohan Chandolu, General Manager Poco India, revealed some tidbits on what’s coming next for the brand – “Season 2” as they call it. First things first, the Poco F1 successor could arrive as early as this quarter (Before the end of March). Surprisingly, a few minutes ago after I had finished…

Apple suppliers are planning to begin mass production of Apple’s iPhone 9 next month, Bloomberg has learned. The phone will be less costly and is expected to be announced as early as March. The iPhone 9 will draw design inspirations from Apple’s 2017 iPhone 8 and is said to be the first low-cost iPhone the company has ever released since the iPhone SE. The Bloomberg says the assembly of the new iPhone will be split among three companies; Hon Hai Precision Industry(Foxconn), Pegatron Corp. and Wistron Corp., all based in Taiwan. Other tidbits about the phone are that it will…

Huawei has been a big selling point for the media in the past six months ever since the U.S. ban kicked in. The Chinese tech company has tried to fight back, releasing reports now and then on every milestone they conquer in their smartphone business. The company has gone as far as releasing its quarterly results, something that, unlike other publicly traded companies, they are not entitled to. “We are doing fine.” You get the point. The latest revelation was posted on Weibo, from the company’s official EMUI account. The company says Android 10 based EMUI has already been installed…

WhatsApp is the latest addition to apps with over 5 Billion downloads on the Play Store. This makes it the second non-Google app to ever hit this mark. Out of the tens of millions of apps available, the popular instant messaging platform has managed to amass 5 Billion downloads since it first hit the Play Store almost a decade ago. It joins Google’s Portfolio of apps, which account for most apps with over 5 billion downloads. For Google, this is not surprising since the company owns Android, and many of their apps come pre-installed on smartphones from different manufacturers. Among…

With every new flagship launch/speculation, we expect a lot of changes for both the internals and externals of a phone. That’s the kind of expectation we have for the iPhone 12 range but if the latest leaks are anything to go by, then ardent iPhone users won’t be getting a new design after all. According to 3D printed mock-ups of the iPhone 12 range obtained by Macotakara from sources in Apple’s Chinese supply chain, the design is seemingly set to be very similar to the current iPhone 11 range, with the only real visible differences apparently being in the dimensions and the cameras. As…

Huawei has finally released its EMUI 10 update roadmap globally. Even though the company has already rolled out updates to several devices, the EMUI 10 global roadmap will enable its customers who are yet to receive the updates to know when they should expect updates to be available on their end. To date, the company has already rolled out Android 10-based EMUI 10 to several of its high-end devices and also mid-range devices, but not to all the markets, even though the update started rolling out in November 2019. Last week the company released the update to two different devices,…

As is the norm, each Telegram update often comes bundled with several features. As a result, Telegram, the popular instant messaging platform for the privacy-conscious, has tones of functionalities and is way better than WhatsApp. The company’s last update for mobile platforms tagged along with “Send when Online”, a theme editor, dark maps when on Night Mode and other neat improvements. The latest Telegram for Web update doesn’t go against the norm; there are several new features now available on the platform. The significant improvements introduced on the new telegram update revolves around both video and music playback. Telegram now supports…