Author: Kaluka wanjala

If you know anything about Nokia smartphones from back in the day, then you probably know about Carl Zeiss. Most of the premium Nokia Lumia smartphones were know for their superior camera performance and the Carl Zeiss lenses they had played a part in ensuring this was possible. Fast forward to 2017 and Nokia is back in the smartphone market thanks to HMD Global. HMD currently owns the rights to the Nokia name and the company already has three devices on the market, these include the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and the Nokia 6. None of these devices has Carl…

A couple of week ago, I published the comprehensive review of the Infinix Note 4. This is the latest phablet from the company whose selling point is the battery. The Note 4 comes with a 4300 mAh battery that served me well during my review period. During this period, I used the phone like I normally would and this means I did not push it to the extreme just to see how many hours the battery could last. With the review out of the way, I have decided to take a closer look at the battery of the Note 4.…

Instagram is making changes to its platform that will make it easier for you to interact with other users. The company announced that it will be introducing comment threads that will make conversations easy to follow. We have seen these on Facebook and when a user hits the reply underneath any comment, the response will automatically be grouped right underneath it in a thread. This is a long overdue addition to Instagram as most of the comments that exist on Instagram tend to be all over the place and following a specific conversation with one person or a group of…

Opera has announced that it will be discontinuing its data-saving app for Android, Opera Max, that it unveiled back in 2014. The company has even removed that app from the Google Play Store but those who already have it on their devices can still use it for now. If you are among these people, you should be looking for alternatives as the company will end support anytime from today, not exact date is known as of writing this but the company will give you a heads-up before it does that. Opera Max was a useful product for those who wanted…

In September 2016, Snap (the company behind Snapchat) introduced a pair of sunglasses it called Spectacles. This was the first product Snap introduced and was very strategic as it was announced on the same day the company changed its name from Snapchat to Snap. The company said that this was necessary as the Snapchat app was not the only product it was offering anymore. Snapchat Spectacles came with a built-in video camera that can record 10 second videos. These spectacles can be synced with the Snapchat app to make it possible to users to post what they record directly to…

Yesterday, Google announced that it has added support for 30 new languages and dialects to voice search. This the company says is to make it easier for people around the world to search and even translate using their voice. Out of the 30 languages added, Swahili is the one that stands out for me as it is widely used in Kenya. Google hopes that this will get more people who use Swahili (and the 29 other languages) will use voice more than they do now. In a statement, Google said, “today we’re bringing voice typing (aka talking to your phone…

The one thing the Pixel smartphones are known for are their cameras. This is thanks to the software behind the Google Pixel Camera and specifically the HDR+ mode that is exceptional when taking high dynamic range photos. This mode reduces the blur you may see when taking HDR shots and in the end you get outstanding photos that have really made the Pixel and Pixel XL phones stand out and very appealing to photography enthusiasts. The only issue so far has been that you had to either buy the Pixel or Pixel XL smartphone to enjoy what HDR+ has to…

Late last month, Google released the fourth and final developer preview of Android O. With this, it was clear that the public release of Android O was imminent. Even though Google is yet to confirm the exact date, multiple sources have confirmed that Google will finally reveal what the “O” stands for and will be releasing the public version of Android 8.0 later this month. Google will supposedly launch Android O on August 21st to be exact. The first smartphones that will be getting this update are the Pixel phones. The Pixel phones were released last year and are meant…

Since June 2007, Apple has managed to sell over 1.2 billion iPhone handsets. This was revealed a couple of days ago by Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, in a conference call after the announcement of the company’s third fiscal quarter earnings. Last year at a time like this, Apple reported that it had sold 1 billion iPhones since 2007. What this means is that the company has sold over 200 million units within the last 12 months if the total number of units it has sold since 2007 till now is 1.2 billion. 200 million units in just a year is…

If you own either the Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8+, you should be happy to know that Android 7.1 update is headed your way. The Galaxy S8/S8+ launched with Android 7.0 Nougat but it looks like they will finally be getting the update a couple of months before Android O is released. The information about Android 7.1 for the S8/S8+ has been revealed by Vodafone Australia through its website. The company says that the update has been submitted for review and this is the last stage before the roll out begins. Given that this was revealed by Vodafone Australia, we…