Author: Alvin Wanjala

Xiaomi has introduced their new cutesy 3D avatars that are subtle of Apple’s Memoji. The Avatars were announced together with their new sub-brand Mi CC Series that had its first lineage of devices launched on Monday. Mimoji is similar to Apple’s Memoji that was first launched in 2017 with the iPhone X that enabled users to create cute 3D avatars that resemble them. Xiaomi’s Mimoji’s should be exciting to Xiaomi fans; you’ll have the same big-eyed, small tongue avatars like Memoji’s. The only noticeable difference from Apple’s customizable humanoid Animoji characters is the different customizability with different hair styling and…

Google Photos has some exciting new features cooking that will get you excited if you use Google’s gallery application. In a tweet, Google Photos product lead revealed what’s coming in the photos app alongside usual bug improvement updates.  The exec was also interested in obtaining first-hand user feedback about the app and the features that users would like incorporated into the app. Here are some of the upcoming features; Manual face tagging Usually, Google Photos automatically does face tag pictures for respective faces it identifies. However, you cannot add a face tag manually, although the option to remove a wrongly…

The photo and video-driven app, Instagram has been introducing lots of features lately, and soon, an additional feature is also coming. The Facebook-owned app will soon let its users share the Snapchat copycat Stories to other apps as well. It is worth noting that the new feature comes barely a month after Facebook announced its plans to let WhatsApp users share their “Status” in other apps as well. If you’re a big fan of Instagram, then I’m certain you will find this feature exciting. It seems Facebook’s wants to offer its user fan base flexibility across its platforms by performing…

At the end of last month, Xiaomi had teased a new sub-brand that will majorly focus on millennials. It’s no secret that millennials give more priority to photography in smartphones; that’s what the Mi CC Series is all about. Yesterday Xiaomi officially launched three new gadgets under the new series; Mi CC9, Mi CC9e, and CC9 Meitu edition. Besides providing excellent photography hardware, the phones also hold a good amount of battery capacity. Xiaomi MI CC9 Mi CC9 is at the top of the series with a 6.39-inch Super AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution (1080 x 2340). Under the hood,…

When we take a look 15-20 years down the line, smartphones were still a new thing, and most millennials didn’t have access to that. However, just a decade later, things have changed fast. Recent stats indicate on average people spend an entire day in a week glued on their phones. This is twice as much compared to 2008 according to data from the report ‘A decade of Digital Dependency’ released last year. And that’s a reality for many people. However, what will it take to curb your phone addiction? Google and even Apple have stepped up to help (us) with…

Samsung’s next Galaxy Note 10 will be officially unveiled on August 7. We had already tipped you on the speculations about the official launch date of the galaxy note 10, but Samsung has finally confirmed the rumors. In a blog post yesterday, Samsung confirmed the launch date stating, “On August 7, 2019, Samsung Electronics will unveil new devices designed to take the Galaxy ecosystem’s connectivity to the next level.” Still, the launch is dubbed The Galaxy UNPACKED event. The Galaxy Unpacked event will take place at the same location as last year’s event at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center in New York.…

Samsung Galaxy A50, a new device in the revamped Galaxy-A series, has been reported to receive an OTA update over the weekend. Although the update has majorly focused on India, we are yet to see an update rollout to other parts of the world too. The OTA update comes along with some revamped security update for Samsung Knox – Samsung’s device security feature. Majorly in the update, Samsung Galaxy A50 users will have the chance to enjoy new camera features including night mode and super slow-motion video recording capability. Alongside the new A505FDDU2ASF2 firmware, are the usual bug fixes and…

Fuchsia OS has been an secretive project from Google that the company has been working on for some time now. Fuchsia OS is another mobile operating system independently made by Google for mobile platforms. Even though Google already owns two Operating Systems, (Chrome OS and Android OS) I wonder why they should want to have another OS. Android is popular, though there’s still a long way to go in terms of optimization the basis upon which iOS users have all rights to brag about. Recently Google published Fuchsia OS first developer website that has proved it wasn’t a rumor after…

We recently reported about Xiaomi’s decision to shut down its Global MIUI beta test program for all users starting July 1st which was attributed to the unresponsive nature of some testers. Xiaomi stated some users adopted the beta program as a way to get new MIUI updates faster and never bothered to offer feedback despite the use of the MIUI beta ROM’s as their daily driver. Now Xiaomi seeks a closed group of beta testers that will have the chance to try out POCO F1 Android Q update and also Pie Update for Mi 6, RedMi 6 and RedMi 6A.…

Samsung’s next flagship in the Note series is almost here with some rumors suggesting the official launch will be happening on August 7. However, aside from that, we had already come across what could be the features of the Note 10. The device will proposedly feature the Samsung Exynos 9820 SoC or the Snapdragon 855 depending on the region and will run on Samsung’s OneUI. Live images have been surfaced on Twitter already which indicate the Pro version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 will be called Note 10+ and not Pro. From the photos, you can also notice that…