Author: Kaluka wanjala

As they say, it is better late than never. This is probably what HMD Global had in mind when it finally decided to push Android Oreo update to the Nokia 2. The Nokia 2 was unveiled in October 2017 and came with Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box. As with other Nokia smartphones, HMD Global promised timely OS updates for this phone. The dynamics of that are more complicated that what we many think as you can see the phone is just getting Android 8.1 Oreo update now (2019), over 15 months since its launch. The Nokia 2 was…

Don’t mind my dramatic headline, I have always wanted to use it. We finally have good news for the lovers of dark themes on their mobile applications. Facebook has finally added Dark Mode to its messaging app, Messenger. The company announced this feature back in October (2018) but we never saw it roll out to users till last weekend. The social networking site made some changes to Messenger by letting a crescent moon(?) emoji usher its users to the dark side (Dark Mode). The company has announced the arrival of this new feature that you can unlock right away. The…

M-Pesa has really evolved over the years. The service has gown so much with significant contributions to the country’s GDP. With the evolution of M-Pesa, it has come to be part of our lives and most people cannot imagine a world without it. The integration of M-Pesa into our lives has made it easier for its customers to make payments and for business and organizations to collect the same. One of the organizations that has decided to embrace M-Pesa is the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). This partnership was announced yesterday and is part of NSSF’s plan to fully adopt…

These days, it seems like we have an app for everything. With this, we are bound to download way more applications that we did a couple of years back. You can always delete some of the apps you are not using but in some cases you need almost all the apps on your phone and uninstalling the ones you use on a regular basis is not an option. Even though there are smartphones with up to 512GB of internal storage space, not everyone is willing or able to afford such. When it comes to smartphones, the bigger the internal storage…

If you are looking for a smartphone between Ksh 15,000 and 20,000, you may have come across the new Huawei Y7 Prime 2019 and the Tecno Camon 11. The Camon 11 was launched in the country late last year and is available from Ksh 15,000. The Huawei Y7 Prime 2019 on the other hand is available for Ksh 17,999. Since these two phones are direct competitors, I have decided to compare them to help you decide which one is perfect for you. The Huawei Y7 Prime and Tecno Camon 11 have almost similar specifications and knowing which of the two…

Xiaomi’s Android Go smartphone, the Redmi Go, is coming to Kenya and will be available exclusively through Jumia. This has been revealed after the two companies, Xiaomi and Jumia, signed a partnership that will see the ecommerce company list Xiaomi products on its platforms. Xiaomi products are already listed on Jumia but the signing of this partnership agreement makes the relationship official. The partnership agreement was signed by the two companies at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As a result of this, Jumia will open the Mi official store on its platforms across 14 countries in the continent. Opening…

If you are on Instagram, you have probably used its story feature and if that is true, you may have looked at the statistics to see who has seen what you have posted. These stats are important as you want to know if people are actually viewing your Stories and in some cases you need to actually know who these people are. Instagram has let people see who has viewed their Stories but the Facebook-owned company is making some big changes. Even though you can still see who has viewed your Stories, you will not longer see the viewer list…

If you use Google Duo and have pictured a world where you can use the service not only through the app but through a web browser, you may be in luck as this option is now available. Google Duo has been around since August 2016 and the search giant has been trying to push it to more users as it competes with Apple FaceTime among other services. Since its release, Google Duo was limited to its mobile app but the company has introduced ability to use it on a web browser. Google did not make a big deal out of…

As appetite for data keeps rising, players in the industry have to try all they can to stay ahead of competition and give their customers what they can’t get from other players. For Safaricom, staying ahead of competition was to deploy a 400G network link and that is what the company has just done. The company has announced this deployment making it one of the first companies to do so globally. With the 400G link, Safaricom will be able to support heavy data usage brought about by increased video consumption as well as demand for higher video quality for its…

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei unveiled the world’s first 5G foldable smartphone. Yes, I know 5G is still not mainstream and we may not really need foldable smartphones at this time but the launch of this phone is all about competition as different manufacturers want to outshine each other. Samsung already unveiled its foldable smartphone last week and now Huawei has joined the party with the Huawei Mate X. The company says this is the fastest 5G foldable smartphone. We have to take their word for this as we have not conducted any tests and we will not…