Author: Kaluka wanjala

Truecaller, the caller identification app, is reporting that its daily active users have reached the 150 million mark. This is the global total and comes about a week after the company announced that it now has 1 million paying subscribers using its Premium service. Both these are huge milestones for the company. Truecaller has also announced that its app has been downloaded over 500 million times from the Google Play Store. With this, doing quick math reveals that about 30% of the people who have downloaded the app are using it on a daily basis. Truecaller has gained 50 million…

Yesterday, Android 10 was finally released to the world. As it was revealed recently, Google was ditching the dessert names and that is why the latest version of its mobile OS is going by Android 10. With the formal release of Android 10, you should expect it to start rolling out to some devices anytime from today. Well, that is true but do not hold your breath as the roll out is currently available for select devices and most people will not get it this year. Since most manufacturers tend to be slow when it comes to pushing out the…

Vivo has officially unveiled its Y Series of smartphones in Kenya. The vivo Y series include the Y12, Y15 and Y17. The three smartphones have decent technical profiles that include impressive performance features, Halo FullView Display, AI powered cameras and powerful battery profiles. These are some of the attributes that vivo is confident they will appeal to youth smartphone shoppers in Kenya. “The Y Series is made for the youth. We are bringing our latest photography innovations to many younger consumers through our three fashionable Y Series smartphones,” said Mr. Hosea Liu, General Manager, vivo Kenya. “With ‘Powered by Youth’…

Another week has just come to an end and it is time to recap some of the stories we covered this week. Android 10 For Pixels This week, it was revealed that Android 10 will start rolling out to Pixel devices as early as next week. These will obviously be the first devices to get the update and hopefully this means that we should be seeing the next Pixel devices very soon. September 3rd is the date thrown around for this update but Google has not said which Pixel phones will be getting the update first. We may see it…

Towards the end of last month, we told you that Microsoft was planning to add a Dark Mode feature to the Outlook app for Android and iOS. This is not necessarily a ground breaking achievement but it is some form of achievement nonetheless. Microsoft is done with the beta testing and has rolled out an update for Android and iOS with proper Dark Mode. The Company is not only rolling out this feature to the apps but to Outlook.com too. The roll out was announced on Wednesday this week so you should notice the changes anytime from now. When announcing…

If you have ever shopped around for a gaming laptop or PC, then you know they can be very expensive. This is not even considering how hard it is to get one in Kenya, in most cases, those looking for gaming laptops of PCs had to buy overpriced ones or import them directly from other countries or just build their own rig, this can be very expensive too. With gaming laptops, you have the portability factor and this means that you can use it on the go unlike a desktop computer. One company that has been consistent in the gaming…

SWVL, the shuttle-hailing company, seems optimistic with the Kenyan market as the company has announced that it will be pumping Ksh 1.5 billion into its Kenyan operations. With this cash injection, the company will be able to expand operation to other towns and routes as well as improving current operations. SWVL is one of the two well known shuttle-hailing services in Nairobi with the other one being Little Shuttle. Little was the first service to launch a long distance option, the company did so a few weeks back with rides between Nairobi and Nakuru. This is a very busy route…

If you have ever had a need to scan a document using your phone, you may have come across the CamScanner app. It is one of the popular document scanning applications that I have used a few times. Cam Scanner has always worked as you expect it to but this all changed recently and researchers from Kaspersky Lab said that they found a malicious component within the application. According to Kaspersky, the module has been identified as a Trojan-Dropper that extracts and runs another malicious module from an encrypted file included in the app’s resources. “This ‘dropped’ malware, in turn,…

Truecaller, the caller identification app, has today announced that it has over 1 million paying subscribers using its services. Truecaller Premium was introduced to the market not so long ago and has managed to get 1 million paying subscribers already. With Truecaller Premium, users get an ad-free experience, call recording (not available on Android 9), contact request, a notification when their account is viewed and a premium badge next to their profile. In addition to the existing features, the company has announced a set of new features that paying subscribers can enjoy. These include a new spam-blocking feature that includes…

On Friday, the Tecno Phantom 9 was officially announced for the Kenya market. This is the latest flagship from Tecno to launch in the country and the first one in two years. Given that this is a new phone, there is so much about it that potential buyers should know. That can be overwhelming for anyone who is looking for a new phone. With that in mind, I will highlight the top 5 things that you should know about this phone. In-Display Fingerprint Scanner The Tecno Phantom 9 is the first smartphone from the company to have an in-display fingerprint…