Author: Kaluka wanjala

We are about 4 weeks away till we see the 2017 flagship from Huawei, the P10. The Huawei P9 was an amazing device and the company has to make sure it can top its success in terms of features and sales. We have already reviewed the P9 which you can check out here. Back to the P10, We have seen a couple of specs Huawei plans to include in the phone but they do not reveal much about it. Some of the things we have heard about the P10 is that it will have a refined design, a QHD display…

Airtel is one of the biggest telecommunication companies in the world but the company has not had a smooth ride in Africa, especially in Kenya. The company has been struggling to compete with Safaricom but the latter has always ahead and made billions of shillings in profit while Airtel swims in losses. Even with the loses the company has recorded over the years, it is still committed and has no plans of exiting the African market. There have been reports recently that indicated that the company may leave the African market to concentrate on markets where it is making money.…

Microsoft seems to be having a hard time attracting new users to its Office 365 platform if the latest report by IT World is to be believed. The report reveals that new subscriptions to Office 365 dropped by 62% in 2016 compared to 2015. The report said, “In each of the last three quarters, Office 365 grew by about 900,000 subscribers – the smallest quarterly increase since early 2014.” According to Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, the total subscriptions for the office software had reached just under 25 million. He also went ahead to say that in 2016, only 4.3 million…

BlackBerry is one of the well-known smartphone manufacturers out there. Even with that said, the company has struggled in this space as competition from other established brands have pushed BlackBerry OS out of the market. The company acknowledged this and that is why it decided to embrace Android to try and see if it can regain its lost market share. We have already seen a couple of Android devices from the company and more will be released this year. We already know the company plans to unveil BlackBerry Mercury at MWC 2017 (Mobile World Congress) next month but this will…

If you love music, you have probably used Shazam at some point in your life. This is the app that helps you identify songs without the need of typing the lyrics on Google. The app has been used by millions of people and it is getting even better with the latest update. Both the Android and iOS versions of the app have been updated with new features designed to make it easier for users to identify songs. The android version of the app just got a new shortcut that is designed to reduce the time and taps you have to…

LG is currently working on its flagship smartphone for 2017, the LG G6, that it plans to unveil next month at Mobile World Congress 2017. With the G6, LG wants to ensure that it builds a smartphone that people will want to buy. This will be different from devices such as the G5 that was not very successful. We have already told you that the company has plans to ditch the modular design with the G6 as it tries to make the phone more appealing to those who want a simple flagship device that they can use on a daily…

Sony is one of the best smartphone manufacturers in my opinion. The company makes some premium devices but it has struggled in the smartphone space the last few years even as its rivals (Huawei and Samsung) have seen their market share grow. Even though Sony has had a rough run, the company is still committed and it has plans to launch new devices at Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona. According to reports from Japan, Sony is planning to launch 5 different smartphones at the event. The report does not reveal anything about these smartphones but 5 is a…

Late last year, Infinix launched its flagship smartphone, the Zero 4, in the country. In addition to the standard Infinix Zero 4, the company also launched a bigger version of this phone, the Infinix Zero 4 Plus. Just like the Zero 4, the Zero 4 Plus is a camera-centric smartphone designed for those looking for exceptional camera performance from their devices. I have had the Infinix Zero 4 Plus for more than a week and having used it for that long, I have decided to do my first impressions on it. The phone is a lot more like the smaller…

Less than a week after leaving Xiaomi, Hugo Barra is heading to Facebook to be the new head of Oculus VR. At Xiaomi, he was the Global VP since 2013 but he unexpectedly announced that he was leaving the post a few days ago. With this announcement, we were left wondering where he would go but now we know that he is going to Facebook. Before joining Xiaomi, Barra previously worked at Google where he was a VP and product spokesperson. He was one of the most notable people in Google’s Android team and we saw him in many Google…

Microsoft, the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of pan-African banking group Ecobank today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to complement African governments’ efforts to modernise and raise the standards of the continent’s major cities through state of the art digital solutions. The MOU will see the modernisation of sectors that will have the most immediate and significant impact for African countries. These sectors will include bursary disbursements and school fee collections in the education sector; market shop and small vendor municipality collections, vehicle and driving licensing as well…