Author: Kaluka wanjala

The OPPO F9 is the latest flagship smartphone from the company to be launched in Kenya. I use the word flagship loosely to mean the most expensive and I am not counting the OPPO Find X. The OPPO F9 was officially launched in Kenya back in September and is currently available on Jumia starting from Ksh 34,199. At the moment, the only variant available in Kenya is the one with 4GB of RAM. This is the one available starting from 34K but things will change next week as the company is planning to launch a 6GB variant in the country.…

There is no doubt that my favourite smartphone for Ksh 25,000 at the moment is the Huawei Y9 2019. I have been using this smartphone for a few weeks now and I love it. I got the phone to review from Huawei and so far I am impressed. It does a lot of things well compared to most other smartphones I have used this year. I will not dive deep into what it really does as I will get to that in the full review that will be up next week. At the moment, you can get the Huawei Y9…

Yesterday, Safaricom announced its new packages for Home Fibre users. These new packages dubbed Safaricom Home Fibre Plus will combine mobile voice, mobile data, SMS and Home Fibre in one package. These packages come with adjusted rates that you should know about if you are a Safaricom Home Fibre customer. You probably know that the new Finance Bill 2018 affects mobile tariffs and saw them revised upwards. This was the case with Safaricom and may be one of the reasons why the company saw it fit to come up with these new packages just to ensure its customers still get…

Kenya has the highest internet penetration in Africa with over 31 million people having access to the internet, according to a report by Jumia Business Intelligence and GSMA Mobile. With more and more Kenyans connecting to the internet from mobile devices like phones and tablets, also comes the rise of mobile money transactions, access to loans and economic prosperity for the country. But with the acceleration of digitalisation comes insecure consumer habits. This coupled with a lack of coherent legislation and regulatory frameworks, as well as inadequate cybersecurity measures in key sectors, is turning Kenya into a lucrative target for cyber…

Safaricom Home Fibre is now available in more that 213,000 homes countrywide. The company announced this today and revealed that the service is available in Nairobi, Nakuru, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Thika, Bungoma, Kitale, Nyeri and Nanyuki among other towns. About 12 months ago, Safaricom Home Fibre was available in close to 100,000 homes. The company has been aggressively expanding its coverage in areas not covered by other home internet services. This is probably the reason why it was able to add over 100,000 new customers in just 12 months, a small but significant number. In announcing connection to over 213,000…

Do you have some extra Ksh 30,000 to spend on a smartphone? If you do, HMD Global wants you to spend it on the new Nokia 7.1. The company has announced the availability of this phone in the country today. The phone comes into the country a few weeks after the company announced the availability of the Nokia 6.1 Plus (X6) which is available for Ksh 31,990. It seems like HMD brings a new Nokia smartphone in Kenya every single month. We have seen so many smartphones over the past 5 months with the 7.1 being the latest. The Nokia…

There are so many financial apps in Kenya offering different services from mobile loans, mobile banking and a number of services in between. This means that it is difficult to get people to download new apps from the Google Play Store. For people to download your app, you have to offer them something that they really want/need or they will be forced to look elsewhere. mKey is one of the latest apps to be launched in Kenya and it seems to be doing well. mKey is the first keyboard app in Africa that converges social, and financial services into an…

Google officially introduced the latest Android variant, Android 9.0 Pie, back in August. As it is every year, the first devices scheduled to get the update were its own Pixel phones and a handful of other devices from other manufacturers. No Huawei phones were on that lists and I was not expecting them to be as Huawei is never quick when it comes to updating its devices with new Android versions. Well, Huawei seems to be using a different strategy this year and it plans to update a number of its high-end devices with Android Pie from November 10. We…

Earlier today, Safaricom unveiled its new service, M-Pesa Global. This service opens up M-Pesa to the world making it easier for its customers to send and receive money from virtually anyone in the world. M-Pesa Global makes it easier for Safaricom users to send money directly to anyone in the region and across the world. Users can send money to mobile numbers in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. Besides this option, users are also able to send money directly to bank accounts across the world. At the moment, you can only send money to bank accounts in United Arab Emirates, the…

Safaricom has today announced its partnership with Western Union to make it easier for its customers to send money across the globe. The company announced this earlier today saying this is a first for any mobile money service in the world. Customers will be able to send money to virtually anyone in the world through the more than 500,000 Western Union Agents and through bank accounts. All this is part of M-Pesa Global, a new service that Safaricom says opens up M-Pesa to the world. Besides sending money to Western Union, M-Pesa Global will allow anyone from virtually anywhere in…