Author: Kaluka wanjala

If you want the best technology when it comes to TVs, be ready to pay a higher price for that. This is evident with the 2018 Samsung QLED TVs that the company has just launched in Kenya. The recommended retail price for the cheapest model is Ksh 215,000 which is not cheap and is slightly higher when compared with what LG is offering for its cheapest 4K OLED TVs that are also available in Kenya. The new Samsung QLED TVs were announced earlier this year and are in Kenya targeting customers who want the top of the range technology from…

Last week, Instagram added the Nametag feature that should make it easy for you to find people using the app. The official Instagram app can generate a unique nametag for every user and this can be shared with other people. When the nametag is scanned, the user will be directed to the account the nametag was generated from. Before you start sharing your nametag, you will first have to navigate to your profile page to generate a nametag by tapping the button with the three lines at the top-right corner of your profile. When you tap on the three lines,…

Even though it may be hard to believe, Facebook may be releasing a lighter version of its app to iOS users. Facebook Lite, as it is called, has been available to Android users and may be heading to iOS very soon. Facebook Lite helps users save on data as this app gives you the basic features of Facebook, takes less space and consumes less data compared to the official Facebook app. Facebook Lite for iOS has been spotted by analytics firm, SensorTower. Facebook’s Help website also has mentions of the app that is currently being tested. This Facebook Lite app…

Most of the popular apps are guilty of hogging your data. Think of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp of any app you use religiously. If they require and internet connection and you use them on a regular basis, they eat up a significant percentage of your data. Twitter has rolled out an update that it hopes will help you save on data on both Android and iOS. The feature adds an option on the app’s settings section that will prevent videos from autoplaying and loads lower quality images. This will be useful in situations where you want to use the app…

WhatsApp is finally adding picture-in-picture support for third party videos to its official app for Android. This mode has been available on iOS letting users have a floating window with the video playing while they continue scrolling up or down through their chats. Picture-in-picture (PIP) mode is now available on beta version of WhatsApp for Android and supports the major platforms including YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. WhatsApp is currently the most popular messaging platform out there with over 1.5 billion monthly users and it is surprising the company took this long to introduce PIP mode to its Android app. As…

It’s no secret that there are so many fake accounts on Twitter. This has been clear for years from bot accounts that are programmed to do certain tasks, to accounts that impersonate certain individuals to those that misrepresent themselves. This has been the case for years but was very clear last year during the US elections. Ever since then, Twitter has been making some changes to clean its platform and get rid of some of the fake accounts but it hasn’t eliminated all of them. Twitter says that it is expanding the methods it uses to identify fake accounts. Some…

Huawei is never among the top manufacturers when it comes to rolling out the latest Android updates. The company usually takes time to push put updates and in some cases it just doesn’t update some devices, especially the low end ones. Well, it looks like the company is taking a different route this year and has started rolling out Android Pie update to some Mate 10 Pro owners. This is a surprise as we are expecting the company to launch the Huawei mate 20 later this month and were hoping to see Android Pie on this device first. It’s not…

Back in August, Google officially released the stable build for Android 9.0 Pie. When the company announced this, it said that the update was to roll out to those who were part of the beta program first before other users. After this initial rollout, this update was then scheduled to roll out to those who own the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones. Besides the Pixel phones, the new Nokia phones made by HMD Global were also in line to get Android Pie but we were just not sure when that was to happen. We knew…

OLED technology is the latest trend sweeping the television industry. We have seen a number of OLED TVs on the market and LG is one of the main players here. When OLED displays first came into the market, they were pricey compared to LCD displays but their prices have come down over the years to reasonable levels that put them within ranges that most people can afford. When compared to LCD displays, OLED displays have 5 areas where they outshine the former and this makes them the better panels for regular television viewing, gaming and home cinema. Sharper and Cleaner…

The Safaricom Neon Smart Kicka 4, quite a mouthful, is currently the most affordable Android Go smartphone in Kenya. The phone has been on the market for a few weeks and is available online through Masoko, Jumia and offline through Safaricom retail shops. At Ksh 3,499, the Safaricom Neon Kicka 4 is the perfect device for those who are looking for their first smartphone without spending so much on it. In a market like Kenya, the Safaricom Neon Kicka 4 is seen as the perfect first smartphone for those coming from feature phones. Since the Neon Kicka 4 is an…