Author: Kaluka wanjala

The Huawei Nova 5T has finally been unveiled in Kenya. Huawei introduced this phone to the market today announcing that it will be available in retail stores for Ksh 42,000. The phone is now available on pre-order up until January 31. Those who pre-order this phone will get a free pair of the Huawei Band 4, the company’s smart band. The Huawei Nova 5T is not a new phone though, it has been available in other markets since late last year and only now is it launching in Kenya. This is the first Nova series phone by Huawei to launch…

Netflix saw its subscriber base grow by 8.8 million during the last quarter of 2019 (Q4). This is better than what the company expected as it had projected a growth of 7.6 million during this period. This was revealed in the company’s latest earning report. Netflix also revealed that it currently has over 167 million paying subscribers with more that 100 million of them outside the United States. This is not strange as Netflix is one of the few platforms with a presence in almost all countries, most of its competitors tend to focus on the key markets in developed…

About a week ago, we shared a few things about Dark Mode on WhatsApp. Back then, this was not the official way of going about things but that is changing today. WhatsApp is adding a dark mode to its Android app with the latest update. Keep in mind that dark mode is currently available in the beta version of the app and I have managed to activate it so it does work. If you have signed up to be in the WhatsApp beta program, you can grab the latest update through the Google Play Store as an update. You can…

The Pocophone F1 smartphone by Xiaomi is finally getting a taste of Android 10. This was one of the popular smartphones the company launched back in 2018 and it’s good to finally see it get the update. With Android 10 update, the Pocophone F1 will be getting MIUI version 11.0.4 that is bundled with the January 1 Android security patch. The update is available to all users who are running MIUI 10 and even those who installed MIUI 11 stable beta. If you have the Pocophone F1 and have the MIUI version mentioned above, you should get a notification of…

Huawei has partnered with TomTom, a deal that will see the Chinese smartphone giant replace Google Maps with TomTom maps in its smartphones. Huawei is in a tight corner at the moment thanks to the US-China trade war. Huawei was blacklisted by the US government and this meant that the company was not free to trade with American companies. One of those companies was Google with its products and services including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps etc. The trade war has not been resolved and Huawei has decided to look for alternatives going forward. The company has partnered with TomTom to…

2019 was a very tough year for Huawei. The US-China trade war slowed the company down and this affected sales to some extent. This was the same year the company unveiled the P30 Pro and the Mate 30 Pro, one of its best flagship smartphones to date. Even with the troubles it has with the US government, Huawei had a good 2019 as the company managed to ship over 240 million smartphones globally. This is a growth of 34 million smartphones compared to 2018 when its shipment numbers rose just a tiny bit above 200 million at 206 million units.…

Not so long ago, we told you that Vivo has plans to launch the Vivo Y19 smartphone in Kenya. This is the latest from the company to launch in the country and you can get it locally for Ksh 27,000. With the launch of the Vivo Y19 in Kenya, the company is expanding its Y series to 5 devices. The other 4 are the Vivo Y12, Y15, Y17 and Y90. This is the company’s entry level series with devices available in different price segments. At Ksh 27,000, the Vivo Y19 is competitively priced and will be head to head with…

Wireless headsets are the trendy new items in the smartphone audio scene. Not just for smartphones but for the audio market in general. We have been seeing quite a number of them over the past year or so and their prices keep coming down by the day. Once available for the top end of the market, we keep seeing them creeping to the other market segments. Even as the tech makes its way to other segments, Apple is still the leader in the True Wireless Headset space according to data shared by Strategy Analytics. True Wireless Headsets are those headsets…

Huawei is set to launch its Nova series in Kenya as early as next week if everything goes as planned. This will be the first official launch of a Nova device in Kenya unless there is one that I missed. Huawei will be launching the Nova 5T in the Kenya next week but I am still not sure about the exact date. The company is clear that the launch of this phone in the country has nothing to do with the US trade ban that has affected some parts of Huawei’s business including its mobile division. With the ban, Huawei’s…

The new Microsoft Edge web browser is finally available to download for Windows and Mac users. Microsoft has finally released this new browser that is based on the Chromium open source project. This browser was announced back in December 2018 and since it is a chromium based one, it is similar to Google Chrome to some extent. Microsoft will be forging ahead with this new Edge browser and it decided to forego any further development of its own browser engine. The new Edge browser has been in development and testing since 2018 and Microsoft is finally ready to share it…