Author: Kaluka wanjala

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…

If you are into call recording, you will soon be able to do that using the official Google Phone App. A teardown of the Google Phone app shows that the new APK has a built-in call recording feature. This feature was found on the latest version of the Phone app that is available for the Pixel 4. From the teardown it is also clear that Google has added a new icon, layout and other resources alongside a new in-call button to initiate a call recording. This is not the first time we will be seeing call recording on the official…

If you are one of the people still using Windows 7, you should know that Microsoft is ending support for this version of its popular operating system. The company is officially ending support for Windows 7 today (January 14 2020). Microsoft announced this a long time ago so it does not come as a surprise to most people. What this means now is that you will still be able to use devices powered by Windows 7 but the devices will no longer receive critical security patches and official software updates. Microsoft will also stop providing technical support to Windows 7…

Samsung officially launched its first foldable smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Fold sometime last year in select markets. The phone has a $2,000 price tag which is not cheap in any way and given that the foldable phone concept was still new, we weren’t sure how the market was going to receive it. The Galaxy Fold did quite well and better than expected to be honest as it sold out is most markets it was available in. Samsung never revealed the actual numbers and there was no easy way to figure that out independently. Last month there was a report from…

Twitter can be a wild jungle for some people with the high number of toxic replies and abuse. Twitter has always said it is against abuse but this has not stopped abusive people from getting to the site. Twitter can ban and suspend users but they will just come back as setting up a new account is very easy. Twitter is still committed to reducing abuse on the site and the company has plans to release a new feature that will make it easier for users to reduce the number of abusive and toxic replies to their tweets. The company…