Author: Kaluka wanjala

Samsung Mobile has today officially unveiled its latest flagship series, the Galaxy S20 in Kenya. This series is made up of the standard Samsung Galaxy S20, the Galaxy S20+ and the Galaxy S20 Ultra. They are available for Ksh 92,999, Ksh 103,999 and Ksh 129,999 respectively. Starting from Ksh 93,000, the Galaxy S20 series devices are not cheap. For Samsung, these are its flagship devices that come with the latest tech, hardware and software and this warrants the price.  In Kenya, we have not seen a flagship device from other manufacturers in the recent months so Samsung has as an…

You probably don’t think of Motorola when thinking or talking about smartphones anymore. The company is not doing as well as it did back then and these days we do not get to hear a lot about it as we used to. Even with that, Motorola has a number of devices on the market with one of them being the Moto Z4. The Moto Z4 was launched back in June 2019 so it is a fairly new smartphone. This phone came with Android 9 out of the box but it is finally getting updated with Android 10. The update has…

Netflix is the most popular video streaming service out there. It was one of the pioneers of the streaming business and has reaped big with the expansion of the industry. Netflix Kenya packages are evidence of its global expansion and attempts to localize its offerings. I have been using Netflix for a while even though we do have competitors like Showmax. Having options benefits the end users as they do end up choosing a service that suits their needs. Since the new billing model to support local currency kicked in, Netflix has become cheaper in Kenya. Unlike before, where what…

The itel A56 is the latest smartphone from the company to be launched in Kenya. Itel is known for its affordable smartphones, mostly below Ksh 10,000. This is the first smartphone from Transsion to launch in Kenya this year as we have not seen any devices from Tecno and Infinix in Kenya in 2020 The itel A56 is the successor to the A55 with the company promising everything big with the updated version. We are getting a bigger battery whose capacity stands at 4000 mAh, a bigger 6-inch display, dual camera setup at the back just to name a few.…

Huawei’s App Gallery has a long way to go if it is to catch up with rivals including the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. It is extremely difficult to get people to use a new app store as you need it to have all the apps they need and for that you have to convince developers to publish their apps on the store. Huawei has been trying to get developers to publish they applications on its platform as the US government ban affects its core business. The company is still trying to get some of the popular apps…

After a two week pre-order period, the Huawei Y6s is finally available in retail stores in Kenya for Ksh 13,999. This is the second smartphone Huawei is launching in Kenya in 2020, the first one was the Nova 5T that is doing really well in stores. The Huawei Y6s is the successor to the Y6 Prime from last year. This was a good phone for its price and now it is getting an updated version for 2020. Given that we have not seen most of the top manufacturers launch new devices within this price range this year, the Huawei Y6s…

When it comes to updating its smartphones with the latest Android version, vivo has not been very proactive and has never been among the first manufacturers to roll out updates. With its own custom UI, it takes the company a long time to tweak the OS before pushing out the update. Back in December, vivo unveiled Funtouch OS 10 that is based on Android 10. This was a few months after Google first released the final version of the OS. Even with the release of Funtouch OS 10, its roll out is still at its infancy stages with no visible…

Tecno has been quiet since the beginning of the year with no new devices launched in the local market. The company will be changing that soon as it plans to launch its latest camera-centric series, the Tecno Camon 15, in Kenya. The Tecno Camon 15 takes over from the Camon 12 series from last year. The company skipped some numbers to settle for Camon 15 for reasons known to them. Check out the video below. The Tecno Camon 15 is a camera-focused phone as I have said and is expected to come with a 64 MP Sony sensor. I don’t…

HMD Global had big plans for MWC 2020. The event was cancelled due to the rapid spread of the Coronavirus not just in China but in Europe too. During this event, the company was going to unveil new smartphones to take over from its 2019 devices. With the cancellation of the event, HMD Global was left in the dark as the company has the devices that need to see the light of day. The company never confirmed when these new devices will be unveiled but now we have that information thanks to its Global VP Juho Sarvikas. He shared this…

For companies like OPPO, pushing the boundaries has always been at their core. The Chinese manufacturer has been aggressively trying to differentiate its products from those offered by its competitors. For the longest time now, OPPO has been investing a lot of money on its cameras as it tries to position its products as the perfect option for the youth. The company has just added a new smartphone to its portfolio and as you can guess, the cameras really do stand out. This new phone is the OPPO Reno3 Pro that has a total of six cameras. This is the…