Author: Kaluka wanjala

Huawei’s latest flagship smartphone, the P30, is coming to Kenya next week. The phone was unveiled in Paris late last month and is on its way to Kenya. Huawei has shared this information through its official Twitter account saying that the phone will be here on April 10, one week from today. It is impressive to see the company launch the P30 series in the country this fast as this is not the case with other manufacturers. Some manufacturers take months before unveiling their latest smartphones in the local market and its good to see that is changing. At this…

WhatsApp is one of the best apps I have on my phone. It makes communication easy and smooth but one thing I hate about it is that people can add you to random groups and there is nothing you can do to prevent that. Even though groups can be useful, you never have control over who can add you to them. You may wake up one day and find yourself in a few WhatsApp groups that you may not want to be in. Anyone can add you to a WhatsApp group and in some cases leaving the group will just…

HMD Global’s most recent Android Go smartphones, the Nokia 1 Plus, is finally available in Kenya. This phone was launched at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 a few weeks back and is finally available in Kenya for Ksh 9,300. Even though HMD is yet to send out the press release confirming the availability of this phone, the company is running ads on social media informing potential buyers about its availability. We have known that this phone was coming to Kenya this month but were never sure about the exact date. Since HMD has not sent out the press release confirming…

The Infinix Hot 7 is the first smartphone from the company to launch in Kenya this year. The phone was officially launched in the country a couple of weeks ago and is available for Ksh 9,999 through Jumia, Infinixmall and most offline shops. This is the successor to the Hot 6 and 6X from last year and since these phones impressed me so much, I was curious to see what the new one has to offer. At its price, the Infinix Hot 7 is competing with the new Huawei Y6 Prime 2019, Tecno Spark 3 Pro, Xiaomi Redmi 6A just…

Dark mode is a feature we have come to see on most of the apps we use on a regular basis. There are some apps with real dark mode while others have something close to that. Twitter’s so called dark mode is not really dark mode as it is just night mode with a darker shade of blue and not a deep black one. Most people who have used this feature do not have a big problem with it but some people who are very picky about this and have never liked it. For those using Twitter for iOS, real…

Unveiled at MWC 2019, the Nokia 1 Plus is finally making its way to Kenya this week. The price is still unknown but it should be available for Ksh 10,000 or somewhere around there. The Nokia 1 Plus is replacing the Nokia 1 from last year that you can get in Kenya for as low as Ksh 5,800. Compared with the original Nokia 1, the Nokia 1 Plus comes with a bigger display and feels much better in my opinion. It has a polycarbonate build that is better than what the Nokia 1 had. It feels much better and its…

The Tecno Spark 3 series has finally been launched in Kenya. The phone comes in two variants, the standard Spark 3 that comes with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage space and the Spark 3 Pro that comes with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage space. The Tecno Spark 3 Pro is the variant that is available in Kenya at the moment and you can get it for Ksh 12,499 from Jumia and most other retail stores. This is the first smartphone from the company to launch in Kenya this year and is replacing the Spark…

Launched towards the end of 2018 by Finserve, Mkey has seen over 2.95 million transactions processed through its app. Finserve is a subsidiary of Equity bank and it shared these figures in its recent financial results for the year 2018. The company also added that the 2.95 million transactions processed are worth over Ksh 1.2 billion. This is impressive for an app that has been around for a little over 6 months. Finserve has also shared that MKey has processed Ksh 147.8 in mobile loans so far. We know that the appetite for mobile loans in Kenya is very high…

With the adoption of cloud services, business should be able to scale operations faster and at a lower cost than before. Microsoft has been talking about this for years as it tries to get as many people as possible to use its cloud services including Azure. With the cloud, businesses do not have to buy physical infrastructure that can be expensive for smaller organizations.   When hosting its Azure event in Nairobi, Microsoft said that in the past five years, cloud adoption in the country has soared but did not give the exact figures to support this. Through such events,…

While at the university during those days, I could not help but feel jealous of my fellow women who walked around in calculated moves with new and state-of-the-art laptops. Those days, without a laptop, studying was a nightmare. You had to literally beg someone, if possible go on your knees so that they could have you use their laptops for assignments and research. Those with cash used to go to the cyber cafes but who can forget the old antiquated desktops in cyber cafes those days? A computer would take ages to turn on and by the time it is…