Author: Kaluka wanjala

Cisco announce the convergence of Cisco Spark ™ and Webex platforms. The result is a new Webex Meetings application for your meetings and a new seamless team collaboration application called Webex Teams (formerly Cisco Spark). Cisco is putting their award-winning video devices onto this newly converged platform adding a new hardware device that turns any workspace with a TV into a Webex room. Cisco is making everything easier to buy and continuing to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence that will dramatically improve meetings, as we know them today. Launch of an all-new version of Webex meetings. The first thing…

Have you ever wanted to add more than one piece of media to your Instagram Story? I know I haven’t but active users of the platform have and now Instagram is making it easier to do so. If you are one of those people who have been looking for this option, you are in luck as Instagram is finally making that possible. From today, you will be able to add up to 10 different items to your Instagram Story at a go. This will work the same way it does when you are trying to post multiple photos or videos…

Infinix is getting ready to launch its first smartphones in Kenya this year (2018). These are the Infinix Hot 6 and Infinix Hot 6 Pro that the company is saying will be launched soon. The company is already teasing the HOT 6 Pro on its social media pages. With this, I expect the Hot 6 line to be launched in Kenya within the next two months. The one standing feature that we can make out from what the company has shared is that the Infinix Hot 6 Pro will have an 18:9 aspect ratio. This will not be the company’s…

Earlier today, HMD Global launched three new smartphones in the Kenyan market. These are the Nokia 1, Nokia 6 (2018) and the Nokia 7 Plus. Missing from this list is the Nokia 8 Sirocco and given the fact that the company said nothing about this, my guess is that we will not be getting it in Kenya anytime soon. We have already told you about the Nokia 1 which is available for Ksh 9,500, you can read about that here. The other two smartphones are the Nokia 6 (2018) and the Nokia 7 Plus that are available for Ksh 29,000…

HMD Global has just expanded its budget portfolio in Kenya with the launch of the Nokia 1 in Kenya. The phone has a recommended retail price of Ksh 9,500 across the country. This is currently the cheapest Nokia smartphone in the country and joins the Nokia 2 that has been around since 2017. At Ksh 9,500, the Nokia 1 is competitively priced as it is one of the cheapest smartphones in the Android One program. Speaking of Android, the Nokia 1 comes with Android Oreo (Go Edition). This is the version of Android that is specifically made for devices with…

Equity Bank’s EazzyBanking App just got an update that makes it easier for users to send and receive money from any mobile money wallet or any account in other banks. This update comes less than two weeks after Mobile Money interoperability went live in Kenya. With Mobile Money interoperability, it is now easier for users of one network to send money to those of the other networks. Airtel was one of the company’s excited with this move since this means that anyone with an Airtel Money account can send money to those on Safaricom’s M-Pesa without the hassle that was…

Jumia is one of the well-known e-commerce platforms in Kenya and even in Africa. The company may not be profitable just yet but almost everyone who spends a significant time online knows about it. Over the years, Jumia has built a name for itself to become the “Amazon of Africa”. The company is yet to achieve this status but it is still the most popular ecommerce platform here. If you are a business person and have been looking for ways to expand your business to target customers online, getting started on Jumia is something you ought to consider. The company…

Tecno’s latest smartphone, the Camon X, is finally available in Kenya. The phone was officially unveiled in Nigeria a couple of weeks back and is now available in Kenya through Jumia. As for price, Jumia is selling the Tecno Camon X in Kenya for Ksh 19,000. We expected the price to be around Ksh 20,000 this is not far off from our expectations. The Tecno Camon X is primarily a camera phone with a 20MP selfie camera and a 16MP main camera at the back. I have compared the cameras of the Tecno Camon X to those on the OPPO…

Truecaller today announced that it has reached over 100 million active users. In less than a year, the app has leapfrogged from 100 million monthly active users (MAUs) per month to 100 million daily active users (DAUs), and is growing faster than ever. With more than 20% of its user base in Africa, Truecaller app service identifies more than half a billion calls a monthly in the region, and 50 percent of SMS received are spam. In Kenya the application blocks and filters more than 4.4 million calls and 14 million spam SMSes per month. The world has come a…

Tecno’s most recent camera centric smartphone is the Camon X that was officially unveiled a couple of weeks ago. This phone is competing directly with the OPPO F5 that we have had on the market for a few months now. Given that these phones are marketed as having superior cameras, I decided to take a few shots just to see what they have to offer. The Tecno Camon X is not yet available in Kenya but its price should be around Ksh 20,000 while the OPPO F5 is already available in the country for Ksh 30,000. This is not a…