Author: Kaluka wanjala

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…

LG TVs have a unique OLED technology that simplifies the OLED production, improves viewing experience and lowers the manufacturing cost. LG is one of the leading OLED TV manufacturers and its technology separates it from what is being offered by other manufacturers. Picture Modes LG OLED TVs come with 6 different picture modes to choose from. These include Vivid, Standard, Eco, Game, ISF Expert and THX Cinema.  The THX Cinema mode has no user adjustable controls or options, including brightness, and is designed for viewing under specified low ambient light viewing conditions. You get enough adjustments options with the ISF…

Earlier this month, Finserve unveiled its latest product, the mKey App. This is a keyboard application that integrates a number of financial and social services. The app is available on the Google Play Store and you can download it here. The mKey app seeks to offer more than just financial services. The developers want it to be a key part of your life from using it to keep up with the latest news to use it as a shopping portal. We have not seen this done here until now. I have been using the mKey app ever since and it…

When it comes to Android smartphones, it looks like manufacturers are using the RAM capacity to convince customers that their phones are the best. At the moment, we have 6GB and even 8GB RAM on some smartphones out there. A few years ago, having a smartphone with 3GB of RAM was what many people wanted but now we are looking at smartphones with twice the RAM. Most of the times the people buying the smartphones with 8GB of RAM may not take advantage of all that RAM and may end up using a fraction of that. OPPO’s current flagship, the…