Author: Kaluka wanjala

The Huawei Y6s is launching in Kenya soon and will be the latest in the company’s Y series to launch in Kenya. I do have a unit for review and with that, I had to do an unboxing post and give you my first impressions on this phone. The Huawei Y6s will be available in retail stores for around Ksh 14,000 and is the successor to the Y6 Prime from last year. At this price, it is competing with some good phones from Tecno and Infinix and since these two companies are yet to launch their phones for 2020, the…

Huawei is no doubt in a very tough spot right now. The US government has banned companies like Google from working with the Chinese giant. With this, Huawei is not allowed to pre-install some Google apps and services on its new phones. This means that access to the Play Store is limited and this definitely affects those who buy Huawei phones as most people who buy and use Android phones are used to having access to the Play Store. Huawei has always had a Play Store alternative, App Gallery, but the company hasn’t been aggressively recruiting people to use it…

Pop-up selfie cameras are gaining popularity as more manufacturers look for ways to get rid of the notch on their devices or just to provide a better experience with their phones. We saw this trend last year and we expect it to go mainstream this year. Pop-up selfie cameras have so far been used by some of the top smartphone manufacturers. Players such as Infinix and Tecno who target the low-end segment of the market are yet to release devices with such cameras. Infinix may be the first of the two to release a phone with a pop-up camera this…

Huawei has had a tough time recently as it came under the US government’s ban hammer. With this ban, Huawei was barred from doing business with most US companies. For its mobile division, Huawei has Google as a major partner and this means that the ban affects one of its very core businesses as its phones are powered by Android with some Google services on top. Google still works with Huawei to continue providing security updates to its phones that were released on or before May 16, 2019. All the other smartphones released after this are not getting any guarantees…

Huawei is getting to ready to launch yet another smartphone in the Kenya market. The company is planning to launch the Huawei Y6s that is in the entry level category and most probably succeeds the Huawei Y6 Prime 2019. The Huawei Y6s will be available as from March 4th in retail stores across the country. Before that, you will be able to pre-order it from February 24 all through to March 3rd. The price of the phone has not been revealed yet but that will be happening soon. The company is currently running a price guessing competition for those who…

Opera has announced the installation of its new local servers in Kenya. These new servers will be in Mombasa and the company says will go a long way in increasing browsing speeds by up to 4 times. With these speed improvements, the company says those who use Opera products including the Opera Mini browser should expect better experiences. Opera Mini has a very huge user base in Kenya and Africa and having a local server can go a long way in improving user experience. One of the ways user experience can be improved is by improving connectivity speeds according to…

Earlier today, Safaricom announced the roll out of its new number prefixes. This roll out was a long time coming as we have been expecting it to happen sometime this year. With the roll out of these new prefixes, I thought it is a good idea to summarize some of the things you need to know. The Prefixes The new prefixes rolling out are 0110 and 0111. SIM cards with these new prefixes will be available countrywide at all Safaricom shops and dealer outlets. We are used to the 07x prefixes and the new ones will most definitely confuse some…

With Dark Mode being a favourite feature with most of the apps out there, it is a surprise that Facebook has not been keen to embrace it. The company implemented dark mode on its Messenger app but we never got to see it on the main Facebook applications. Facebook has been testing dark mode for its Android app since last August but the feature is yet to roll out to all users. There was no timeline as to when the feature will roll out to all users and all we have been doing is wait to see what the company…

A few years back, Instagram posts were displayed in a chronological order. With this, you got to see posts from the most recent ones as you scroll down your timeline. In 2016, Instagram decided to shake things up a bit by ditching the chronological appearance of posts for an algorithm-based one. The posts users got to see were not displayed in the order they were posted but they were based on the algorithm. The main aim of this was to get people to see the content they actually want to see and interact with but at the same time this…

Essential, the company behind the infamous Essential PH-1 Phone, has announced that it is shutting down and will cease operations this year. With this, expect no more Essential phones and even the one it was working on will not see the light of day. We expected to see this phone on the market this year but it looks like that is not going to happen. With the shutdown, the Essential PH-1, the company’s only smartphone, will not receive any updates going forward. In addition to this, its Newton Mail app will also stop functioning in April and those who use…