Author: Kaluka wanjala

Sometime last year, Safaricom introduced us to its AI Chatbot assistant that it is calling Zuri. This chatbot is meant to offer you a different avenue to use to access Safaricom services. The bot does not have that one stand out feature that is exclusive to it as it complements some of the other tools and avenues you are already using to access Safaricom services. Zuri bot is available through Telegram and Facebook Messenger. Choose the one you are comfortable with, I decided to go with Telegram. On Telegram access it through http://bit.ly/SafaricomTelegramBot On Messenger access it through http://bit.ly/SafaricomZuriMessenger Using…

Huawei has confirmed that it will be launching its next Y series smartphones, the Y6 Prime 2019, in Kenya next week. This launch comes about a month after the company introduced the Huawei Y7 Prime 2019 that is available in the country for Ksh 17,999. The Huawei Y6 Prime 2019 will be cheaper than the Y7 Prime 2019 but the exact price is still a mystery. The company has partnered with Kilimall for those who want to guess the price of this phone. Guessing the right price can win you a phone among other goodies. To guess the price and…

When it comes to multinational tech companies, most of them tend to have their hubs and data centres in other parts of the world overlooking Africa for a number of reasons. Even companies that have huge operations in the continent will have their key operations and data centres out of the continent. This is why Microsoft opening its first data centres in Africa is a big deal. The company first revealed that it was going to open its first data centre in Africa more than a year ago and today it is revealing that the first two data centres are…

Sometime last year, OPPO introduced the Find X smartphone to the market. This was a very controversial smartphone and its price, Ksh 100,000, was seen as being way over the top. The price aside, the OPPO Find X stood out thanks to its very thin (almost non-existent) bezels and its pop-up camera. The company used a pop-up camera to avoid having a notch on this phone. Fast forward to 2019 and OPPO is back with the F11 Pro that has a pop-up camera and equally as thin bezels. The phone was unveiled yesterday together with the standard F11 that has…

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…