Author: Kaluka wanjala

The latest smartphone brand to make its way to Kenya is Lava. Lava is an Indian smartphone manufacturer that officially launched its devices in the country a couple of week ago. Its devices are available online through Jumia and you can get them through offline stores too. I have the Lava Z81 and thought I should unbox it for you guys just to show you what to expect if you are planning to buy this phone. This phone is available in two variants, a 2GB and a 3GB models. The 2GB variant is available for Ksh 12,000 while the 3GB…

For years, software developers yearned for ways to integrate M-Pesa to their products in a more efficient way. When Safaricom introduced the M-Pesa G2 API, this was seen as a step in the right direction but not all developers were happy with it as most of them could not integrate their applications with it. With the not so smooth path developers have had with M-Pesa API’s, the introduction of the new Daraja API got their attention and got them interested. Daraja API brought all the good that the G2 API had and added some extra features that developers could use…

IGTV has not picked up as much as Instagram thought it would when it launched it. This feature lets users create and post longer videos than they normally would in a normal Instagram post. To make sure more people see IGTV videos and hopefully use the feature themselves, Instagram is planning to add the videos to users’ timelines. The company plans to start doing this from Thursday this week. You should start seeing IGTV videos from the people you follow on your timeline and since the update will be pushed on the server side, you will not have to update…

Last week, Safaricom introduced its new “All in One Monthly Bundles”. With these bundles, the company says customers will be able to enjoy discounted data and calling rates in one package. To help you understand this new package better, here are a few things you need to know about these new bundles. Data and Voice Packages Available You can choose the package based on your needs. If you are an average data user, you can get the data only package where you dedicate all your cash on data. There is also a data-heavy package for heavy users who want to…

Back in 2018, the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 was unveiled in the country. This is one of the company’s mid-range smartphones from last year. When it was launched, the Y7 Prime 2018 was competing with the Infinix Hot 6 Pro among other devices. Fast forward almost a year later and the company is back with its successor, the Huawei Y7 Prime 2019. The phone was officially unveiled in the country last week and will be available through retail stores later this week. The big question you may be asking is, should you go for this phone and should you pick…

Have you ever hit the send button on Facebook Messenger and instantly regret your action? Most of us have been there and depending on the situation. Of course you can try to explain yourself but the best option of all is being able to unsend the message. If you have ever been in such a situation, you may want to know that Facebook is finally rolling out the feature to Messenger. We have seen something similar on WhatsApp, a Facebook owned company, so it is not strange to see it on Messenger. We first heard of this feature sometime last…

We all hate those websites with audio or video clips that automatically start playing as soon as the web page loads. I seriously do not understand how this is still a thing but it is and we have to find ways of dealing with it. For Mozilla, it plans to mute automatically playing audio clips or videos with the upcoming Firefox 66 release. This change will only apply to media that plays sound and will be on by default for all users. Users will also have the option of enabling auto-playing audible content if they wish to do so. This…

If you want your conversation to be private, then they should be private. This is key in this day and age where we use all kinds of apps for our personal and professional lives. For WhatsApp, the best way to do this is to deploy Touch ID and Face ID. WhatsApp has pushed out an update for its iOS app with biometric authentication that will allow users to lock the messaging app on their phones using native Face ID or Touch ID. You will be able to use biometric authentication on WhatsApp if you have version 2.19.20 of the app…

There was a time when we used to highlight our top apps every Monday and then we stopped. I loved this segment as we were able to share some apps with you that you could download to your phones. The good news is that I have brought back this segment. Every Monday, I will share my top app for the week from well known apps that I think people should check out to less known ones that are still worth checking out. There was a time when we used to highlight our top apps every Monday and then we stopped.…

Late last year, a number of Safaricom Home Fibre customers started experiencing slow speeds on the network. Most people reported having problems using Home Fibre if a device in their network was downloading something. This should not happen in my opinion as we download things from the internet regularly and this does not mean that when this is happening, no one in our network should be able to use it. This is something you expect in 2014 but not 2018 or 19. The weird bit about all this was that sometimes you could be updating an app on your phone…