Author: Alvin Wanjala

If you thought 108MP is enough, Samsung is aiming even higher. So far, Samsung is the only company that has produced a 108MP camera sensor that we saw in the Xiaomi Mi Note 10. Samsung has announced its working on a 144MP camera sensor based on the 14nm FinFET Process at the 2019 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). The new sensor, according to Samsung, poses a few challenges. It has to work at a relatively high voltage (2V and up). This does not work in tow with that chip designers are doing since they often aim to use the lowest…

Instagram’s latest version brings in a new feature that those who love using Stories will appreciate. The new feature allows users to post a single Instagram story with a collage of two or more photos. This feature leverages on Instagram’s “Layout” option. Through this feature, Instagram will let users include up to six different photos in a single Story. Layout works the same way as Instagram’s separate app offering that goes by an identical name. To many, this may not be such an important feature, but for those who rely on third-party apps to combine photos in a grid-based collage,…

2020 is around the corner, and company’s like Huawei, who have a renewal cycle of six months, are already planning to launch a new flagship device. Head of Huawei Consumer Division, Richard Yu, says the company will launch the Huawei P40 Series at the end of March 2020. The launch event will be held in Paris. Yu said the company’s next flagship would feature a never-been seen before design and, of course, some typical improvements. He said that the Huawei P40 series would have advanced enhancements in terms of camera image quality, chipset performance, and battery life. The company will…

MediaTek unveiled its Dimensity line of chipsets not so long ago. With this new chipset series, the focus was all on 5G. Apart from that, Dimensity will help the company target the high-end smartphone market now to compete with the likes of Qualcomm and its flagship Snapdragon 800 chipset series. The first chip in line was the Dimensity 1000 SoC, a 5G-integrated SoC. MediaTek now says that it will launch several chipsets under this series that will offer 5G support on both SIM cards simultaneously. According to Kuldeep Malik, MediaTek’s Corporate Sales and Business Development for the Indian market, the…

Captions are pretty popular on Instagram, but the Facebook-owned company now wants to make sure that they are used in the right way. Recently the company announced that it would be rolling out a new feature that will notify people if the caption included may be considered offensive. The company says the notification is intended to give users a chance to pause and reconsider their words before posting. The feature still relies on an AI algorithm that can recognize different forms of bullying on the platform even in the comment section. Instagram has lately stepped up its game on fighting…

Spam messages have increasingly become a problem in this digital era. Recent reports from Truecaller have shown that Africa has the three top countries where users receive most spam texts in a month. In Ethiopia, for example, a mobile phone user receives around 120 spam texts in a month, the highest rate globally. South Africa ranks second while Kenya, unsurprisingly, is at number three. Google wants to fight the rise of spam texts through its newly introduced spam protection tools in the proprietary Android Messages app. One of the new features is the Verified SMS feature. Through this feature, Google…

Microsoft has announced new modern icons for over 100 of its products, including Windows. The company first unveiled a design overhaul for its products back in 2018 in what it terms as a Fluent Design. Under the new fluent design aesthetics, all the icons sport soft edges, and color gradients. The icons speak of the same design language, and you can see consistency when you look at them together. John Friedman, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of design and research at Microsoft, says the new icon designs were developed with depth, gradations, vibrant colors, and motion since they discovered that people…

Samsung has officially unveiled two new devices under its popular Galaxy A-series lineup. Both phones sport a similar design with an Infinity-O display and an array of four cameras at the back arranged in an L-shape. However, the whole camera bump is still rectangular. However, there are of course some notable differences under the hood between the two devices. The Samsung Galaxy A51 Starting with the Galaxy A51, this is a 6.5-inch Infinity-O Super AMOLED display phone with FHD+ resolution. It presents itself in a cool 20:9 aspect ratio. A 32MP selfie camera is inside the display placed in a…

2020 is the year when we expect Sony and Microsoft to avail successors of their consoles. The PS5 and the new XBOX are all coming in 2020. In what comes as a surprise, Microsoft has decided to give a sneak peek of what we should expect. Xbox Series X is the name of the company’s next-gen console. The naming is weird, and, yeah, the design too. It looks like a speaker if you ask me, and this was intentionally made to support both vertical and horizontal orientation. Touting it as the fastest, most powerful console yet, the Xbox Series X…

Your Phone app is Microsoft’s plan to bring common ground and seamless integration between Android users and their Windows-powered PCs. You could say it is an imitation to the macOS-iOS experience. But Your Phone supports the iPhone, too. Since the company rolled out the ability to make calls via Your Phone App, it was exceptional to some lucky few using Samsung Galaxy phones and, at the same time, under the Windows Insider program. Calling was first rolled out in August, exclusively for the Galaxy Note 10 at first. But this has been gradually brought on other phones as well, majorly…