Author: Kaluka wanjala

Last year, Samsung released the Galaxy Note 7 that was later pulled off the market since some of them caught fire when charging. This was a big issue for Samsung as this was the company’s flagship phablet that was to compete with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. Samsung did not just stop producing the Galaxy Note 7, the company asked users to stop using it as the device was not considered safe. Even with this, some people still continued using the device. To counter this, Samsung pushed out an update that stopped some Note 7 units from connecting to…

Out of the many messaging applications out there, there are a couple that have managed to attract millions of users with the remaining ones attracting a certain group of people only. Google Hangouts is one applications that has just not cracked the mainstream market. Hangouts is not the only messaging application from Google, the company has a few of them but not a single one has rivalled platforms such as WhatsApp. Google Hangouts is a handy application as it supports chat, video, voice and SMS. With SMS support, Google wanted users to ditch the SMS applications they were using on…

Mara Social Media, an African multi-channel platform of online and mobile tech innovations that are designed to connect people across emerging markets, has announced this week that it has acquired global platform Nimbuzz Assets. Nimbuzz, initially released in May 2008 is a powerful cross-platform mobile calling and messaging app. The app can be installed on computers, mobile phones, smartphones, and tablets. Nimbuzz offers its users the ability to make voice and video calls, enable chat and file sharing worldwide. The app has over 200 million users and is available for Android, iPhone, and Symbian, MIDP, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and PC…

Instagram is about to implement some changes to its platform that will make sure sensitive content does not make it to your newsfeed. The company has just announced this saying this is meant to make its platform a ‘safe environment’ for those who may not want to see offensive and disturbing content on their newsfeeds. According to Instagram, the blurring effect will not be applied immediately, users will have to flag the photo for this to happen. This means that the filters blur photos that have been reported by the community and confirmed by a member of Instagram’s review team.…

Safaricom Introduces A New Dynamic Bundle Dubbed ‘FLEX’ Yesterday, Safaricom officially introduced the FLEX bundle that will allow users freedom to choose how they allocate airtime for calls, SMS or data services. Safaricom says this product is flexible and is meant to be in line with customer feedback. As we have mentioned above, FLEX is a dynamic bundle so it works differently from what we have right now. Currently, Safaricom customers purchase bundles or airtime in fixed amounts, which are mostly pre-determined. What is Safaricom FLEX According to Safaricom, with FLEX, users will be able to convert their regular Safaricom…

Tecno’s latest camera-centric smartphone, the Camon CX, has finally been launched in Kenya. The Camon CX was launched earlier today together with the Camon CX Air. The main selling point of the Tecno Camon CX is its 16MP front facing camera with dual LED flash. The Camon CX takes over from the Camon C9 that was launched last year. The launch event was held at the Safari Park Hotel where Tecno spent a significant amount of time talking about the front facing camera and how its stands out from that of many smartphones on the market. With this, the company…

For the last couple of months, we have heard so much about Samsung’s 2017 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, that we forgot about its mid-range devices. One of the devices Samsung plans to launch this year to fill join its mid-range family is the Galaxy J5 (2017). The Samsung Galaxy J5 (2017) has been spotted on GFXBench listing revealing some of the key specs it will come with. One of those is the 12MP camera on the front and back.  Besides this, the listing also confirms that the base model will have 16GB of internal storage space. The GFXBench listing…

Google has just released the first Android O developer preview. Android O will be the next major release of its mobile operating system which will be released to the public later this year. The preview is available for the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player, Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones. As you can see, the Nexus 6 is not included on the list and this is the same thing the company did a couple of days back when it rolled out Android 7.1.2 beta. Android O developer preview is not available over the air, you will have to download…

Even as people have started talking about the next Android iteration, Google is still focused on improving Android Nougat as we know it. The company is currently pushing out Android 7.1.2 to Nexus and Pixel devices that are supported by Android 7.1. This is the second beta build of Android 7.1.2 as the first one was rolled out in January this year. Android 7.1.2 beta build 2 is rolling out over the air to those who are enrolled in the Android Beta Program. Some of the supported devices that the update is available for include the Google Pixel, Pixel XL,…

When it comes to 4G LTE connectivity, we have always associated that with smartphones and not feature phones. If you owned a feature phone, you were stuck with 3G internet and that was enough since 4G LTE is not something people who buy such smartphones look out for. With 4G now available in most parts of the world, we may start seeing feature phones that support that. Qualcomm is one company keen to see that happen and the company has just unveiled Snapdragon 205 platform that brings LTE category 4 capabilities to feature phones. Keep in mind that this refers…