Author: Kaluka wanjala

OPPO has finally introduced its latest smartphone, the OPPO F5, to the Kenyan market. The company made the announcement today saying that pre-orders will be accepted as from tomorrow, November 21, and the device will officially be available in retail stores as from November 28 as the pro-order period comes to an end. You can pre-order the OPPO F5 in Kenya from any of the OPPO branded shops you see around. The OPPO F5 is yet another camera phone from the company but its says that it comes with a twist. The selfie camera is a 20MP unit with A.I…

The latest smartphone to be launched in Kenya is the Tecno Phantom 8. Officially, this phone was unveiled in Dubai about three weeks ago and we just got the official Kenyan launch a couple of days ago. With its launch in the country, I got my hands on this new flagship from Tecno and this is my initial post on it. The Tecno Phantom 8 takes over from the Phantom 6 and 6 Plus from 2016. Its recommended retail price is Ksh 37,000, not cheap I have to say. This is the company’s latest flagship and comes with some premium…

In the smartphone world, we have been accustomed to using displays with 16:9 aspect ratio. This has been the norm and just recently we saw manufacturers moving to 18:9 aspect ratio for Samsung and the likes and 18.5:9 for the iPhone X and the Nokia 8. With such displays you have to live with black bars at the very top and bottom when watching videos. Up until this point, the solution has been to take advantage of a feature that makes it easier to change the aspect ration of the app to get rid of the black bars. This was…

HTC is finally updating the U11 smartphones with Android Oreo. This update comes after we saw the release of the HTC U11 Life and U11+ both of which come with Android Oreo out of the box. The HTC U11 will be the first smartphone from the company that will be getting the Oreo update and at this point there is no information if the other devices by the company will be getting it anytime soon. Android Oreo for the HTC U11 has been spotted in Taiwan and is expected to get to users in other countries very soon. The update…

Google’s latest digital assistant, Google Assistant, has been around for a little over a year. The company introduced it in May 2016 at its developer conference in May 2016. When it first came to the market, Google Assistant was available exclusively for those using the new Pixel smartphones from Google. Google Assistant has been available on Android phones for awhile but not tablets. You could not use the assistant on your tablet if you have one and this made no sense whatsoever. If you have a tablet and this bothered you, the good news is that Google Assistant will be…

Tecno’s latest flagship smartphone, the Phantom 8, has officially been launched in Kenya. The phone was launched earlier today and should be available in retail stores for Ksh 37,000. The phone was officially launched in Dubai towards the end of October and has been available in some retail stores even though Tecno had not officially confirmed its availability. One of the big selling points of the Tecno Phantom 8 is in the camera department. The device comes two cameras at the back, one has a 12MP sensor while the other one is a 13MP one. The selfie camera is a…

Sony Corporation reported strong sales and operating revenue performance for the second quarter of 2017, with a year-on-year increase of 22.1 per cent compared to the same quarter of the previous fiscal year. Ending 30 September 2017, the US$18.25 billion increase was primarily attributed to the impact of foreign exchange rates and a 15 per cent increase in Game & Network Services (G&NS) segment sales, on a constant currency basis. The operating income for this quarter increased to US$1.40 billion year-on-year to US$1.8 billion, a 346.4 per cent rise. Contributing to the income growth was the increasing sales of Imaging…

The latest smartphone from Infinix has officially been launched. This is the Infinix Zero 5 Pro that was launched in Dubai last night and I am lucky to have the review unit already. I have had the phone for a couple of days and in this post I will be pointing out what you should expect in the box when you buy this phone and my first thoughts about it. Besides the Infinix Zero 5 Pro, the company also unveiled the Infinix Zero 5 with toned down specs. These two devices replace the Infinix Zero 4 and Zero 4 Plus…

We are halfway through the month of November and Google has released the latest Android Distribution numbers. These figures show us what percentage each version of Android has. If you are a developer, these numbers are very important as you need to know what versions of Android to target when developing your apps. If you are not a developer, it is still good to know which version of Android is popular and how the most recent version is performing. With the latest Android Distribution figures, we can see that Android Oreo didn’t grow that much from last month. It currently…

Google has plans to axe all applications that it says do not comply with its “Permissions policy and Prominent Disclosure requirements.” Some of the developers who are using a special API that is meant for creation of apps for users with disabilities to create their own apps that have other purposes have been contacted by Google to make changes to their apps as soon as possible. There are quite a number of applications that use this API including LastPass and these are the ones Google is targeting. Google is not happy with these developers as they use the API to…