Author: Kaluka wanjala

I have been using the Infinix Zero 5 Pro for sometime now. This is the fifth smartphone in the Infinix Zero series, a line up made of camera-centric devices from the company. This was the main goal but given that consumers want high quality cameras in all price-points, that line has been blurred. The Infinix Zero 5 Pro is available in Kenya through Jumia for Ksh 30,000. You can also get the phone offline for the same price or a bit lower. At this price, this is the most expensive device from the company to date. We are used to…

If you know about the history of Nokia smartphones, then you know that the company did not go with Android from the get go. As other manufacturers embraced Android, Nokia chose to go with Windows Phone but that was not that good of a decision. The company had a good run with the Lumia phones but low sales forced it to abandon the ship and almost get out of the smartphone market. This is when HMD Global decided to bring back the Nokia smartphones but with a twist. The company decided to bring back this iconic smartphone brand but instead…

Google Assistant has been available to select Android users ever since it was first released. In the beginning, it was available exclusively to those with the original Google Pixel phones before expanding to other devices. After the initial run on the Pixel phones, Google Assistant was rolled out to every device running Android Marshmallow and above. This has been the case since then but things are changing going forward. Google has announced that its digital Assistant is expanding to even more devices. Google is bringing the Assistant to even older Android phones, devices running Android Lollipop to be exact. The…

Last year, Facebook unveiled the Messenger Lite app for Android targeting users who find the main Messenger app heavy and data hungry. This is one of the many ‘Lite’ apps we have been seeing recently as developers try and target users in emerging and developing markets where internet costs may be high and the use of smartphones with low specs is common. For the 12 months Facebook Messenger Lite has been on the market, it has been downloaded over 100 million times from the Google Play Store. This is impressive for any applications but shows you the number of people…

Good news Nokia 6 owners, you now have a chance to beta test Android Oreo before it is publicly available to all users. Nokia 5 owners are already part of the Beta Labs program and those who chose to take part are currently testing Android Oreo on their devices. With Nokia 5 already part of it, HMD has announced that Nokia 6 is now joining Beta Labs. To be part of the program, users will have to sign up for Beta Labs here. If you join the beta program, you will be part of the group that tests the pre-released…

Not so long ago, Google announced that YouTube Go, the light version of the YouTube app for Android, is out of beta. This app was originally launched in September 2016 but in beta and was only available in India. In February this year, the app was available unofficially through the play store and still in beta mode. Fast forward to August this year and YouTube Go was launched in Indonesia as part of Google’s plan to take the app to more users in developing countries. At this time, the app was still in beta until November when it came out…

Put your data to work These days, organizations collect more data than a human brain could possibly process in a lifetime. (Or even several.) So we’re using artificial intelligence and machine learning to gather and analyze data from everywhere. All with the goal of helping you make smarter decisions. We already see this trend in action. Hospitals can track if doctors and nurses wash their hands at the right times. Banks can find and fix issues with their mobile apps before users have to call in. Museums can see which attractions people visit most frequently. The list goes on. In…

OPPO has been on the headlines so much the last few weeks. The company’s latest device, the F5, launched in the country recently and this is why we have been talking about the brand so much. After the F5, the company unveiled the F5 Youth, a variant with a smaller RAM and available for Ksh 5,000 less than the standard F5. Well, if you thought OPPO is done for the year then you are wrong. The company has just announced that the third variant of its latest device is now available in the country. This latest one is the OPPO…

Redington Kenya Ltd has finally introduced the Apple iPhone x in the Kenyan market. “This amazing device has an all-screen display that precisely follows the curve of the device with no border allowance. The entire face of the phone is a screen, and now here we have iPhone X,” said Sajan Thomas, Regional Business Head East Africa for Redington during the unveiling of the device. Apple iPhone X comes in silver and space grey colors, all-glass front and back featuring the most durable glass ever in a Smartphone with a highly polished, surgical-grade stainless steel band seamlessly wraps around and…

A few weeks ago, Safaricom announced that it had plans to add M-Shwari loan and saving services to the mySafaricom app. This was during the M-Shwari 5th anniversary celebration where it was announced that there are between 250,000 and 300,000 M-Shwari loan applications per day and about 70,000 of those get approved. Even though M-Shwari applications are so many, the option to use the service on the mySafaricom app has been missing. This has been the case even though users could still access some basic M-Pesa services through the same app. I prefer using the app as it is much…