Author: Kaluka wanjala

Samsung is set to launch the Galaxy Tab S6 lite in Kenya next week. This new tablet will be available in retail stores for Ksh 55,000. This is the latest tablet from the Korean manufacturer and I am surprised they decided to launch it in Kenya at this time. I was expecting the company to launch it later this year. The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is the smaller brother to the Tab S6 and it comes with an S Pen and a big 7,040 mAh battery. The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite has the same thick bezels we saw on the…

The Tecno Camon 15 is a camera centric phone just like all the previous Camon devices. The Camon 15 is available in Kenya for Ksh 18,000 and with it you get a great phone with great cameras and a good battery life. I will talk more about all the other things this phone has to offer but in this post we will only be focusing on the cameras. With the camera being one of the top features phone buyers look at, Tecno had to ensure the Camon 15 ticks all the key boxes and that is what we will look…

Telegram is the popular messaging app that some people seem to overlook. The messaging service has revealed that its monthly active users have topped 400 million. This is 100 million more than what the company reported in October 2019, about 6 or so months ago. Telegram also revealed that at the moment they are adding about 1.5 million users every single day and that it is the most downloaded social media app in more that 20 countries. The messaging service plans to add secure video calling to its platform before the end of the year. With the rise in popularity…

Epic Games, the developers behind Fortnite, have finally published this popular game on the Google Play Store. This popular game has not been available on the Play Store as the developers were not willing to part with the 30% cut Google keeps for all in-app purchases. When Epic Games released the Android version of Fortnite, they were vocal about the high percentage fees that are charged by both Apple and Google for having apps and in-app purchases in their app stores. The developers released the mobile game which could be downloaded through its website, a move aimed at bypassing Google…

The desktop browser market is quite competitive, most users want something that is easy to use with the basic features while others want more from their browsers. Opera has known this for years and its browsers have always had a few extra features missing from the likes of Google Chrome and Firefox. The latest changes Opera is doing to its browsers involve the integration of the Instagram app to the desktop browser. This makes sense and is meant to give users access to app-only features that Instagram recently added to its platform. Opera desktop browser version 68 is the one…

HMD Global has kept its promise of updating its devices with the latest versions of Android. The company has done this consistently even for some of its entry level devices. This has been the case the last couple of years and will be the case for years to come. The latest device added to the list of Nokia phones with Android 10 is the Nokia 2.3. The company confirmed last month that this phone was to get this update by the end of Q2 2020. With this update, the Nokia 2.3 becomes the eleventh phone by HMD to get Android…

The sub Ksh 20,000 smartphone market is very competitive. We see a ton of devices in this segment offering different specifications and features. The camera has been one of the features most smartphone manufacturers have been focusing on as they try to win the customers looking for phones within this price range. With smartphone buyers demanding more from their cameras beyond the megapixel count, smartphone markers have to do all they can to ensure the software is optimized for the best results. Huawei knows this too well and its latest smartphone, the Huawei Y7p, is here for those who want…

Netflix is having a very good year thanks partly to the current pandemic. During the first 3 months of the year, the company added 16 million subscribers globally. This is quite a big number considering that Netflix is not the only streaming platform, we do have some that came to the market towards the end of 2019. With the pandemic forcing people to stay home, streaming services have seen a spike in the number of users accessing their platforms. Netflix seems to be one of the winners here attracting more users than it expected. The 16 million new users are…

The most recent flagship from Huawei, the Huawei P40 series, is set to launch in Kenya soon. The company is yet to share the official date or price as it is still early for that. The launch of P40 series in Kenya is expected to bring the Huawei P40 and the Huawei P40 Pro. The company is yet to confirm any of this but this is what we expect. There is also the Huawei P40 Pro+ but I am not sure about its availability in Kenya. The Huawei P40 series builds on the success of the P30 series from last…

With the current pandemic forcing most people to stay home or work remotely, group video calls seem to be winning the hearts of many. Services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc have seen a spike in the number of users. Besides the mentioned services, additional ones like Google Duo and WhatsApp want a share of this pie. Google Duo has already increased the maximum number of participants in video calls and now WhatsApp wants to do the same. WhatsApp has reportedly increased the limit for the number of people who can take part in Group video calls. The previous…