Author: Alvin Wanjala

At the Samsung Unpacked Event 2019, Samsung not only unveiled its new flagship series, Galaxy Note 10 but also announced their upcoming “ultra-slim and light-weight” Galaxy Book S laptop. At the same time, the company also announced its partnership with Microsoft aimed to bridge the gap between Windows and your Galaxy phone. As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella noted the partnership marks “a new chapter of our long term commitment to improve productivity and eliminate the gap between mobile devices and the PC.” The new Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus will come pre-installed with Android apps from Microsoft for…

With the Unpacked Event 2019 held yesterday, Samsung unveiled two new Galaxy Note devices, the unusual, and an ARM-based powered Windows laptop dubbed Galaxy Book S. Now the Galaxy Book S is lightweight, slim and promises what anyone who works on the go exactly what they need -portability and more battery life. Speaking of battery life, Samsung Galaxy Book S promises to give you 23 hours of screen time. This could sort out my needs and honestly, not to bash my phone, but this might last longer, in theory. The laptop runs on Qualcomm’s 8cx octa-core processor from ARM clocked…

Even before the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus were launched yesterday, it was already clear that the headphone jack was missing. Galaxy Note 10 is indeed the first Samsung device to launch with no headphone jack. Although this has already been done elsewhere, like for iPhone 7 and its successors, for the South Korean tech giant, this is a new thing. With that said, Samsung had some explaining to do. Samsung stated that ditching the analog jack alone let the company increase the battery capacity in both variants by around 100mAh. With no headphone jack, the Galaxy…

Samsung’s ISOCELL GW1 64MP camera sensor is excellent. Its made of a large 1/1.7″ sensor with a 1.6μm pixel size. The sensor also promises improved color reproduction, Smart ISO and Hybrid 3D HDR. With 64MP sensor, the image size will have a large 9248 x 6936 resolution with a single image occupying as much as 19MB. One problem with Samsung and I’ve said it before; they are busy selling their advanced hardware instead of deploying them into their smartphones first. Oppo’s sub-brand Realme was the first company with keen interest on the 64MP ISOCELL camera which they have merely showcased…

As you all know by now, today is the day when Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy Note 10. However, the company has announced its new chipset a few hours before the Galaxy Unpacked event happens. Samsung’s Exynos 9825 comprises of an eight-core CPU (2 x M4 @ 2.73 GHz 2 x Cortex-A75 @ 2.31 GHz 4 x Cortex-A55 @1.95 GHz) crafted using the 7nm EUV architecture. With the smaller node, the Exynos 9825 SoC straight away takes the lead from its predecessor Exynos 9820 SoC made with 8nm architecture. In addition, the Exynos 9825 is coupled with a…

Windows 7 market share in the desktop market dropped by 3.6% in July, the second-highest figure ever recorded by NET Applications, an analytics firm. With the 3.6% decline, Windows 7 market share now stands at 31.8% with the majority of the shift being channeled on to Windows 10. The current decline is clearly a point that the old windows users are now migrating to the newer version of Microsoft’s OS. Windows 10 market share in July rose by 3.1% in the desktop market, which now boasts a total share of 48.9%. Microsoft plans to pull off its security update support…

YouTube’s Android app has received an update that changes the Up Next screen UI to a new version. The new revamped UI ditches the Up Next screen at the end of videos that showed a circular play button alongside a Play Now option immediately below it. That is now long gone, after four years -what a long time but built for its functionality, the feature worked just fine. Now the Up Next screen displays two buttons, Cancel and Play Now. The preview thumbnail has now been reduced to only cover sort of a quarter of the video playing screen on…

HTC has faced a rough time in the smartphone industry despite them being a pioneer in this sector having launched one of the first Android-powered devices. Not so long ago, the company experienced patent rows with IPCom, a German research and development company over a wireless technology developed for car phones. Despite the agreement reached by the two sides via a court ruling, IPCom now alleges HTC did not “play by the rules” which is seen as a “disregard for the law by contravening a UK court ruling.” The company had agreed only to sell devices which do not violate…

Two years have already passed since the intense fight on whether or not the headphone jack should be permanently removed began. Nobody dared to go the Apple way by then. Little did we know that iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were just pioneers of this trend. Since Apple did it, that definitely means its doable. Other manufacturers cautiously followed the same way and there are now more than 20 devices have been launched with no headphone jack! And it is not for water proofing; of course, it’s merely a decision to do so without any substantial reason. Or maybe…

Facebook Creator studio app now lets you schedule Instagram posts. This is good news to all social media managers who struggle to keep up with Instagram, at times. For social media managers, it is no secret that social media has its own optimal time that posts get maximum impressions and interactions. However, at times life may get busy to keep up with your Instagram page needs that you miss out on the “high hours” of the gram. Here is where post scheduling comes in. Post scheduling has been on Facebook pages for a while, and I never understood why Facebook’s…