Author: Kaluka wanjala

OPPO VOOC is the company’s proprietary fast charging technology that has been around since 2014. This technology is not available in all OPPO smartphones and just recently made its way to the F series with the first one being the OPPO F9. Most of the other devices that support VOOC charging are its more expensive ones but the company is taking a different route starting with the F9. Even though VOOC is not available in all its smartphones, OPPO is very proud with the progress it has seen so far and shared on Twitter that so far it has shipped…

Android Go may not be where we hoped it would be but it is reaching more people with each passing month. Android Go is a version of Android that is tweaked to run smoothly on entry-level devices with between 512MB and 1GB of RAM. We have seen a handful of Android Go smartphones launch in Kenya from the Nokia 1 to the most recent one, the Safaricom Neon Kicka 4. Android Go smartphones are designed to give users better performance on entry-level devices. These devices come with entry-level specs and hardware and we are used to seeing them not offering…

Over the last couple of months, I have talked about the mKey app here and also on Twitter. This is the latest app from Finserve that has some of the core financial services you may want and a few lifestyle features that you may find useful. MKey is primarily a financial services app but that is not all it does. It offers more than that as a way to differentiate it from all the other financial services and mobile banking applications you can download. I have been using mKey for the last couple of months and have already done a…

Microsoft will be leading influential discussions at the CIO 100 symposium taking place in Naivasha. The event, which brings together some of the top Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and IT business executives in East Africa, aims to discuss and address not only challenges faced within industry, but also to celebrate its triumphs. With the focus of this year’s event being ‘AI in Africa’, Microsoft, as a partner and sponsor, will be driving the conversation around AI and its potential to solve some of the most pressing challenges that currently impact Sub-Saharan Africa. AI’s ability to drive growth and development within…

If you bought or are planning to buy the new Nokia 7.1 Plus, you may be happy to know that the phone is finally getting Android 9.0 Pie update. This is not a surprise as the Nokia 7.1 Plus is an Android One phone and was scheduled to get timely updates even before most flagship smartphones from other manufacturers. The availability of this update was shared on Twitter by HMD Global’s Chief Product Officer, Juho Sarvikas. Ever since HMD Global brought back the Nokia smartphones, the company has always focused on having a near stock Android experience and promised its…

mKey is the latest financial services app by Finserve. The app was unveiled back in September and so far it has been downloaded over 100,000 times from the Google Play Store. Since mKey is a new app with a lot of features, there are a ton of questions that users may have about it and some of its services. mKey has a dedicated page answering some of these key questions but I thought it is a good idea to highlight some that I have received to make it easier for you guys who may be looking for answers. At this…

 DPO Group has announced a partnership with Aero CRS (an airline customer reservation system) that will see DPO power all the payments at the back-end ensuring all parties receive their payments in real time. In addition, all the payments from the customer side are checked by the DPO fraud prevention team at real time. The announcement was made at the Aero CRS network’s annual customer conference held in Nairobi. The Aero CRS Network, which was launched recently, provides a cloud-based platform to help regional and local airlines get more distribution on Online Travel agents (OTAs), meta-searches and different aggregators all…

Huawei is about to launch its next smartphone, the Huawei P Smart (2019), in a few weeks before the end of the year. This will be the successor to the Huawei P Smart that is currently available in the country from Ksh 19,999. The Huawei P Smart (2019) is based on the Honor 10 Lite that the company launched in China not so long ago. It is not strange for the company to base its international devices over some that it has launched in China as this has been happening for years. The P Smart (2019) will have some variations…

A few weeks back, I told you about the Purple variant of the Huawei Y9 2019 that the company had plans to launch in the country soon. Well, the phone is finally available in Kenya and is currently available on Jumia for Ksh 24,990, the same price as the other Y9 2019 colours. The company says limited units are available and you should hurry to grab one while you can. The Huawei Y9 2019 is the latest device from the company and has received so much publicity and during the pre-order period, over 2,000 units were reserved. The Huawei Y9…

Today (25/11/2018), Safaricom will be refunding its customers all the data they used on Friday and Saturday. The company announced this saying it is part of its 18th anniversary and is dubbing this “Asante Data Sunday”. If you have been using mobile data, you can check how much data you have accumulated by dialing *444*20#. I have checked and so far I have accumulated over 2.8GB which I got back. No matter how much data you get back, you may want to maximize it so that it does not get used on unimportant things. Below are some of the tips…