Author: Kaluka wanjala

 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…

Have you ever noticed that most households and organizations around Nairobi have LG televisions displayed? This is because the company has been very successful when it comes incorporating the efficient OLED display technology. Actually, this year LG has received a very high rating when it comes to OLED televisions’. The company had a humble beginning and grew from a chemical supplier and to being, one of the biggest electronic manufacturer worldwide. The OLED display has been one of the technologies that LG has been putting much focus on in order to produce the best for their consumers. At the CES…

It is 2018 and televisions are more advanced and better than ever. Televisions have rapidly evolved over the last couple of years.  Not long ago, terms like 4K and Ultra HD sounded like technology that was only suited to wealthy early adopters. Fast forward to the present times and Ultra HD is slowly becoming the new standard when it comes to televisions in the country. A few years ago, the idea of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TVs was taken with a pinch of salt but barely a decade after; OLED TVs are transforming our viewing experiences in our homes.…

The Tecno Camon 11 is the latest smartphone from the company that has made its way to Kenya. The phone is available in retail stores for Ksh 14,999, a reasonable price and one that competes directly with what Huawei is offering with the Y7 Prime 2018 and OPPO with the A3S. The Tecno Camon 11 is the third Camon device the company has launched in Kenya this year. The phone’s key selling points are its three cameras, two at the back and one in front and the display. For the cameras at the back, Tecno has used a 13MP and…

Black Friday is a tradition that we have started embracing in Kenya and even though we do not have some crazy deals like the ones we see in other countries, there are still some good deals that may be worth checking out. If you happen to go to most of these sites, don’t be fooled by some of their claims, they may tell you a particular product is discounted but in actual sense the price it is retailing for is the same one it has been retailing at for the last 3 months. I have been looking for good deals…

It seems like Ksh 24,000 is a sweet spot for most smartphone manufacturers. We have been seeing some good devices within this price launch in Kenya the last few weeks and the latest one is the Nokia 5.1 Plus. This Nokia 5.1 Plus joins the Huawei Y9 2019 and the recently announced Tecno Camon 11 Pro. The Nokia 5.1 Plus is available for Ksh 24,000 in select retail stores in the country and is one of the few smartphones from HMD Global we have seen launch in Kenya the last couple of months. Some of the others include the Nokia…

This Sunday, Safaricom will refund all the data its customers use on Friday and Sunday. The company has announced this saying this is part of its 18-Year Celebrations and is dubbing it “Asante Data Sunday”. Among the other goodies for its 18th anniversary include free 1 GB data bundle and a special KES. 1 per minute call rate for customers during their birthdays. With the “Asante Data Sunday” promotion, you get back all the data you use on Friday and Saturday to use on Sunday till 11:59 PM. If you are planning to use a lot of data on Sunday,…