Author: Kaluka wanjala

Safaricom has today announced the availability of VoLTE (Voice Over LTE) through its network. It becomes the second telco in the country to roll this out after JTL with its Faiba4G product. As long as you have a 4G SIM card and a 4G smartphone that supports VoLTE, you are good to go. Not all smartphones support VoLTE but a good number of them from Nokia, Huawei, Tecno, Samsung e.t.c do. If you meet these requirements, enable VoLTE on your device under settings to get started. Some phones have this option enabled but for others you will have to do…

Every year, financial institutions lose millions of shillings due to fraud. Most of these institutions do not publicly report many of these cases but industry insiders know it is happening and will continue happening for years to come. To address this, Safaricom has today unveiled a new fraud intelligence solution made for financial institutions. Safaricom says banks, insurance firms and micro-finance institutions can use this tooL to reduce fraud incidences targeting their customers. This will be possible as this tool will help determine the authenticity of a financial transaction. “Through the years, we have developed in-house capabilities that have helped…

Telegram is updating its platform to make it easier for individuals to add people to their contact list. The latest update brings version 5.80 of Telegram for Android and iOS. With the update, we get several useful features that you may appreciate. The first major update makes it easier to add people to your contact list by using the People Nearby feature. As the name suggests, you can use this to add people near you and this is a more simplified way to go about that than what was available before. For it to work, both parties have to be…

The Huawei P30 Lite is one of the best smartphones you can get in Kenya for less than Ksh 30,000. I have had this phone for a few months now and have been using it ever since. It does outshine its competitors with its premium design and build quality and amazing cameras. When the Huawei P30 Lite was launched in Kenya, it was available for Ksh 30,000. This was a reasonable price and still is considering what the phone has to offer. Most people I have shown the phone to thought it costs more than it actually does. If you…

Dark mode seems to be the new wave with smartphone apps and mobile OS in general. We have seen a number of apps get dark mode over the years and most popular ones out there have some sort of a dark theme. Even iOS and Android are getting system wide dark mode with the one for Android rolling later this year with the release of Android Q. Google is also adding dark themes to most of its mobile apps and the next one on the list in Gmail. The latest Google apps to get this dark treatment include Google Calendar…

An interesting thing about most third-party UIs made by the Chinese smartphone makers is that they lack an app drawer. This has changed over time but a few years back, most of them did not have an app drawer as the companies behind these launchers wanted to replicate the iOS experience and if you know anything about that, then you know it lacks an app drawer. One of the UIs that has never had an app drawer is Xiaomi’s MIUI. This has been the company’s standard UI on all its phones and it is safe to say its fans have…

Ride hailing apps are the future and we do have a number of them in Kenya. Bolt, formerly Taxify, is one of them and even though it is one of the most hated ones out there, it has survived all this and is expanding to other towns in the country. Bolt has announced its expansion plans today revealing that it will be available in Kisumu, Kakamega and Thika town. Before this expansion, Bolt has been available in Nairobi and Mombasa just like most other ride hailing applications but the company is hoping to see success in the additional towns as…

Most of us have found ourselves in situations with no money to make a call and sending a please call me text is not the ideal solution. In such situations, you may be forced to flash call the person you want to talk to but this is not the solution all the time as your credit balance may not be enough to do this either. Safaricom has today announced the availability of its “Reverse call” feature that will let customers request to transfer the call cost to the receiver. This is not an innovative feature in any way but it…

One of the worst things that can happen to any social media user and Instagram specifically is losing the account to hackers. This has happened far too many times and for those who make money off the platform, this is the last thing they would want to deal with. Instagram is currently testing a new feature that will hopefully make it easier for those who have had their accounts hacked to get them back. We have had of stories of individuals losing their accounts and it is good to see Instagram do something about that. In most cases, the hackers…

The Huawei Y9 2019 was one of the company’s most popular and talked about smartphone of 2018. It was everywhere, online and offline and the sales were good from some of the stats that I have seen. With the success of the Y9 2019, Huawei was definetly going to keep this series exciting. The company is planning a refresh for 2019 that it is calling the Huawei Y9 Prime 2019. This phone is already on its way to Kenya and should be launched in the country next week. The Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 will be the company’s first smartphone with…