Author: Kaluka wanjala

Earlier today, Huawei officially unveiled its latest flagship phablet, the Huawei Mate 10, in Kenya. The company did this in partnership with E-commerce platform, Jumia. The phone is available for Ksh 80,000 through the platform but may be higher or lower if you get it from other sources. At the moment, the phone is exclusively available on Jumia and this will be the case for the next two weeks before you can get it on other retail stores. The Huawei Mate 10’s main selling point is the Artificial Intelligence processor that the company says is the first in the world.…

OnePlus has announced that it is currently pushing out the new Android Oreo update to a some OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T users. The company made the announcement through is official forums saying that it has pushed out OxygenOS 5.0 to a small number of users. This update comes less than a week after the company unveiled its latest smartphone, the OnePlus 5T. The interesting thing is, the OnePlus 5T comes with Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box and not Android Oreo. There is still no confirmation as to when this device will be getting the Oreo update but…

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…