Author: Kaluka wanjala

Yesterday, Apple introduced a new smartphone to the world, the iPhone X. The iPhone X was an additional device besides the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus that the company unveiled yesterday. The iPhone X (iPhone 10) comes to the market on the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone and from the look of things, it is an amazing device, even better than the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus in my opinion. Apple sees the iPhone X as the device paving way for the next smartphone revolution. The biggest change that you can see with the iPhone X is the removal…

Every year, Huawei comes out with a new phablet under its ‘Mate series’. We normally see these devices towards the end of the year, mostly during November. This year will be a bit different as the company will be unveiling the next phablet, the Huawei Mate 10 on October 16. From what we have heard so far, the Huawei Mate 10 is codenamed ‘Marcel’ and there is also a Pro model that is codenamed ‘Blanc’. These are the two devices were have known about all along but it looks like there is another device that is codenamed Alps. This is…

The third season of Mr. Robot premieres on Showmax first across Africa on Thursday, 12 October 2017, with fresh episodes launching weekly within 24 hours of their broadcast in the US. Mr. Robot stars Egyptian-American actor Rami Malek as Elliot, a troubled hacker at the center of the cyberwar between the conglomerate E Corp and fsociety, a group of hacktivists led by Mr Robot, an anarchist played by Christian Slater. We wrote that spoiler-free description with a lot of self-control and it’s deliberately not entirely accurate, because nothing is ever quite what it seems in this show. Malek won the…

A couple of days ago, Xiaomi revealed the last of its devices that will be getting MIUI 9 Global ROM. This is the third batch of its smartphones that will be getting the update and this means that if your device is not listed here, you will not be getting the update. Earlier this year, Xiaomi said that it had plans to update some of its smartphones to Android Nougat and said that this will happen in three stages over time. MIUI 9 is based on Android 7.0 Nougat and even though it is late, it’s not that big of…

Earlier today, Xiaomi introduced its latest bezel-less phablet, the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2. This phone is replacing the Mi Mix that was announced back in 2016 and was known for its gigantic size and very thin bezels. The Mi Mix 2 comes with a 5.99-inch display that is slightly smaller than the 6.4 inch one on the Mi Mix. The display on the Mi Mix 2 has a FullHD+ resolution of 2160x1080pixels with an 18:9 aspect ratio. With this aspect ratio, the display is not very big as its overall footprint is smaller and so is its screen-to-body ratio. Both…

Xiaomi has always had products inspired by what Apple has on the market. This is not new and it looks like the company is sticking to this strategy going forward. The company already has the Mi Notebook Air that was clearly a clone of the Apple MacBook Air. The Mi Notebook Air has been on the market for a while and now Xiaomi is back at it again with the Mi Notebook Pro that is clearly inspired by the MacBook Pro. The company has unveiled this laptop today and says that this laptop is targeting those who want a high-performance…

Anyone out there still using a BlackBerry smartphone? You may not be but I know there are a few people who are still fans of BlackBerry and its devices. BlackBerry jumped into the Android ecosystem with the hopes of reviving its dying brand but this has not happened so far. The company has a few Android devices on the market including the BlackBerry Priv, DTEK60 and DTEK50. Those using the BlackBerry Priv have enjoyed timely updates but unfortunately it looks like they will not be getting the next major one, Android 8.0 Oreo. This was revealed by Alex Thurber who…

WhatsApp has just released a stable version of its Android app that introduces a number of new features that have been available on its beta app. One of this is picture-in-picture support and text only status messages. Text-only status messages have been available to most users who have the beta version of WhatsApp for Android. Since we have already talked about text only status messages, let us now look at the picture-in-picture mode abbreviated as PiP. This is an Android Oreo feature that lets you continue viewing a video even if the main app is minimized. This means that you…

Direct Pay Online Group (DPO) is the first payment service provider (PSP) in Africa to receive the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 1 certification in 12 African countries. This comes after the successful completion of comprehensive audits in the Group’s global headquarters and all its other markets which include Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Botswana, Ghana, Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe. In Africa, the Direct Pay Online Group headquarters is in Kenya and the team on ground runs all other markets with the support of local branches & teams. PCI DSS is the highest privacy…

One Plus has finally pushed out a new OTA update for users enrolled in the OnePlus 3 closed beta group. The update is about 800MB in size and brings the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 8.0 Oreo, to OnePlus owners. As indicated in the title, this update is available for the OnePlus 3 closed beta group, if you are not part of this group, you will have to wait a while longer. OnePlus will be pushing out a public beta for the 3, 3T and 5 very soon. No date has been given as of now but the…