Author: Kaluka wanjala

LG has just unveiled its latest smartphone, the LG V30. The V30 does not have the secondary display we have seen on devices in the V-series and this is a good thing to be honest. You only get a display that you need with no gimmicks. The display used on the LG V30 is a 6-inch P-OLED one that the company says occupies about 82% of the front panel. The LG V30 is HDR10 enabled and also supports Always on Display. With the secondary display out of the way, LG has replaced that with a floating bar and the Always…

Cab hailing service Little has announced the launch of a driver online verification feature on its app, using face recognition technology provided by Microsoft Cognitive Face API. The app is a homegrown solution and first of its kind in the continent, with 200 000 downloads, and is the first in the market to offer the security feature. When put into action, the new security offering is simple. Drivers goes online to the platform, and are prompted to take a selfie, which is the vn compared to images on Little’s records. This ensures that riders on this platform have improved peace…

Last week, Samsung unveiled its latest flagship device, the Galaxy Note 8. This is a very important device for the company given the disaster that was the Galaxy Note 7 last year. The Galaxy Note 8 is an improvement compared to the Note 7 but its price is one thing that will prevent some people from getting it. In Kenya, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will be sold at Ksh 100,000 according to Android Kenya. This is not cheap but is not as expensive as I had expected it to be. I was expecting it to be above Ksh 110,000.…

A couple of weeks ago, I told you about the latest smartphone series from Tecno, the Spark. I also told you that the first smartphone in this series will be the Tecno Spark K7. This phone is finally available in Kenya for Ksh 9,999. The Tecno Spark K7 went on sale last Friday through online and offline channels. Online, the phone is available exclusively on Kilimall while offline it is available in most Tecno-branded retail shops. At a price of Ksh 9,999, this is one of the cheapest smartphones from the company you can get in the country at the…

Video streaming services such as ShowMax give you the luxury of watching your favourite TV Shows or Movies anytime you want. If you are a regular visitor here, you may see some of our content on ShowMax as we have tried to highlight some of its key features giving you an idea of what it offers. Most people tend to think that you can only watch ShowMax on one device at a time, this is not true as you can watch your favourite shows or movies on multiple devices at the same time. This can be helpful if you have…

Android One was Google’s ambitious plan to replicate its Nexus line to the entry level market. This was the plan but Android One never really took off and some of the devices in this program including the Infinix Hot 2 were very disappointing device. Even with that said, I was still hopeful that Android One was a much needed program but unfortunately it hasn’t been as successful as I had thought. It has been long since we heard any news about Android One. The program is not dead but we just do not get any devices that blow our minds.…

The Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones are almost a year old and this means that we should be getting their successors very soon. According to Evan Blass, Google may launch the Pixel 2 smartphone in less than 2 months, October 5 to be exact. The Google Pixel and Pixel XL phones were unveiled on the 4th of October last year so October 5 sounds about right. Evan Blass has also revealed that the Pixel 2 smartphone will come with the Snapdragon 836 processor. If this turns out to be true, the Pixel 2 smartphone will be the first one…

Last year, Twitter mobile apps got the night mode option that make it easier to use the apps in dark or low lit environments. When turned on, it turns your display from the white background to a deep navy tone while turning all the text to white. This makes it easier for you to look at your screen if you are in a dark room by avoiding eye strains that you would have experienced when looking at the screen with no lights turned on. The only way to use Night mode on Twitter is to use it mobile apps. Those…

Samsung unveiled its latest device, the Galaxy Note 8, yesterday at an event in New York. The company decided to unveil this device at this event but also plans to showcase it next week at the IFA trade show in Berlin. Besides the Note 8, Samsung will also unveil its new Gear S smartwatch at the same event. This was revealed yesterday by Samsung’s head of mobile division, DJ Koh. Over the years, Samsung has used the IFA trade show as a platform to launch its new Gear S devices and this year will not be any different. The new…

The Galaxy Note 7 is a device Samsung hopes we will all forget about. This phone was launched back in 2016 but had to be pulled off the market as some units caught fire when being used/charged. With the disaster that was the Note 7, we were all keen to see what Samsung will do with the Galaxy Note 8 that was unveiled today. Samsung is describing the Galaxy Note 8 as the “next level Note “. You will agree with this phrase if you look at the Note 8 from the design point of view, it looks quite good…