Author: Kaluka wanjala

If you have always admired the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 series but could not buy one because of the price, you may be happy to know that the company has announced the availability of the Galaxy Note 10 Lite in Kenya. Just as the name suggests, this is a lighter version of the flagship Galaxy Note 10 that has been available in Kenya for some time. The Galaxy Note 10 Lite has just been announced in Kenya but is not available in retail stores, for that, we will have to wait till next week. The company says the phone will…

If you actively use Netflix, you may have seen video previews when you are using the app. Some of the videos tend to be very loud and annoying and in some cases embarrassing. Not everyone seems to enjoy the previews and Netflix clearly knows this from the feedback it has gotten. In what comes as a relief to all Netflix users, the company has just announced that you can now be able to disable autoplay previews. It’s normal that “when you browse Netflix, you can automatically play trailers using autoplay to get a preview of a TV show or movie.” …

Twitter will start cracking down on content it considers to have been manipulated deliberately to cause “serious harm”. Instagram announced a similar thing last month saying it was part of its plan to stop the spread of fake news. Twitter will not ban manipulated images, videos and audio outright but the company says it will remove content that has been deceptively altered and is likely to cause users harm. This new rule will come into effect on March 5. As for altered media that is shared on the platform but is not seen as harmful, Twitter says that such content…

Twitter has updated its iOS app to include redefined conversations that are meant to make conversations easier to follow. Twitter began testing this new form of replies a few months ago and the update is ready to roll out to the end users. With these redefined conversations, users will be able to clearly see who is replying to whom. This new design takes inspiration from Reddit. All the replies are connected to the original tweet via a link that makes it easier for people to follow the conversation from the start to the end. If you want to try out…

Huawei had a tough 2019 thanks to the US-China trade war that saw the company slow down the roll out of new smartphones in new markets. Even with that, Huawei seems to have had a good year if the number of smartphones it shipped are anything to go by. During the year, Huawei was the second most popular smartphone brand having shipped 17.6% of all smartphones shipped worldwide. This represents a 16.8% jump compared to the same period the previous year. Quite impressive for a company that faced one of its toughest years. Getting to the second spot, Huawei surpassed…

Samsung was one of the first companies to launch a foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, to the market. This was a big challenge for the company as some of those who got the phone had to return it due to the screen damage after a few days of using the phone. Samsung had to halt the public release of the phone and issue a clarification on this issue and the phone was brought back to the market. The phone is available at an outrageous price of over $ 2,000 but this is expected for a piece of tech that is…

By Muhammad Nabil, Partners and Start-ups Strategy Lead at Microsoft 4Afrika Africa’s technology start-up scene is vibrant – and growing fast. There are currently over 640 active technology hubs across the continent, and according to Partech Africa, start-ups raised $1.163 billion raised in equity funding in 2018 – a 108% year-on-year growth. Topping the list are fintech start-ups, who raised$132.75 million in 2018 – enjoying 39.7 percent of all funding. Despite this momentum, however, there’s a concerning trend: Globally, women-led start-ups only receive two percent of all venture capital (VC) funding – and the picture within enterprise tech is dimmer.…

Huawei is set to open a new Experience Store this weekend at the Sarit Centre. The company will join Xiaomi which opened its Mi Home Store at the same mall late last year. The store is already open at the moment but the official opening is this Saturday from 10am to 7pm. The store is located at the mall’s New Wing. With the opening of the new Experience Store, Huawei will be able to showcase some of its product to potential customers who access that particular mall. The company opened its first retail store in the country back in 2015…

Samsung is finally rolling out Android 10 to the Galaxy S9 series. The Galaxy S9 series was officially unveiled back in 2018 so it is not an old phone and is one of the devices that we expected to get the update at some point. The Samsung Galaxy S9 Series came with Android 8 Oreo out of the box with the Samsung Experience 9.0. The devices in this series got updated with Android 9 Pie layered with One UI. This was the first major update the phone got and was a very crucial one as it introduced Samsung’s new User…

Over the years, some phone manufacturers have tried to go the iOS way by eliminating the app drawer from its custom UIs. Some have done things differently by keeping the app drawer but at the same time having an option to disable it for those who prefer not to have it. Most Chinese manufacturers who try to emulate what Apple does with iOS have done this over time. Xiaomi is one such manufacturer but the company plans to do include an app drawer in the Alpha version of the MIUI Launcher. The company has just released this version which you…