Author: Kaluka wanjala

Infinix is currently working on its 2016 flagship smartphone that will come in two models, the standard Zero 4 and the Zero 4 Plus. The standard Zero 4 will be smaller and have premium specs but not as high end as those found on the bigger Zero 4 Plus smartphone. With the Zero 4 Plus, Infinix may also bring two models, one with 4GB or RAM and another one with 6GB of RAM. I got wind of this today but keep in mind that the phone is still in production and that the company may decide to axe the model…

A few months ago, we told you that Infinix will be launching its flagship smartphone, the Zero 4, before the end of the year. We told you that the phone was to come with a dual camera setup but it looks like we were wrong about that. That aside, we are getting information that the company will be launching the Zero 4 very soon, later this month or early December. A little birdy told me the phone will be launched during Jumia’s Black Friday campaign that ends on November 25th, this has not been confirmed as the launch date so…

If you haven’t set the reminder for Black Friday yet, you need to do it now. Jumia Market will be offering early deals this November for dedicated bargain hunters. This annual shopping bonanza will begin from 14th Nov to 25th November. Two excellent weeks to snap up the best discounts. “We want to create yet another magical shopping experience by offering customers even more deals and broadening the products categories on offer compared to last year” Said Jean-Jacques Maikere, Managing Director Jumia Market. “We are kicking off early to help consumers get their holiday shopping done and over with.” 2015…

YouTube is making some changes to its site to give creators more control on some of the comments posted on their videos. The company is doing this by adding new comment features that will allow content creators to refine conversations on the videos they upload. With these new features, creators will be able to favorite the comments to make it easier for other people viewing their videos to see the comments that are worth reading. This means that people who watch your videos will not be forced to scroll down to find relevant comments that they may want to read.…

After months of waiting, Huawei has finally unveiled its flagship phablet, the Huawei Mate 9. The device was unveiled at an exclusive event in Germany and is everything we had expected. The company says that the unveiling of the Mate 9 sees the arrival of the “new smartphone era”. The Huawei Mate 9 comes in two different designs, there is the standard one and a Porsche Design version. As you probably have guessed already, the Porsche version comes with slightly better specs and a higher price tag. This is Huawei’s flagship phablet so the company has gone all out to…

Samsung Electronics East Africa has today opened its latest state of the art store in Africa, with a new concept of improving customer experience through the offering of device convergence. The new Samsung Experience Store, situated at Garden City Mall, along Thika Road is an upgrade to the previous store that was opened last year. “The Kenyan retail sector has been growing rapidly. Retail outlets are looking into getting into shopping malls and as a result, we are seeing more of these retail malls are coming up,” said Jung Hyun Park, Samsung Electronics East Africa Vice President and Managing Director.…

The one challenge Video on Demand sites face in emerging economies is the high cost of data. This means that even if people want to subscribe to their services, they will not be able to stream movies or videos as they wish since doing so will drive their data costs up. High data costs are especially seen in emerging and developing economies and this represents most countries in Africa. ShowMax is one streaming service that figured this a long time ago and has had a feature that allows users to download videos when they have a reliable internet connection so…

Almost everyone out there knows that Android is the widely used mobile operating system in the world. The OS can be found on devices within all price ranges from the affordable ones to the most expensive ones. With that said, the latest statistics from market research firm, Strategy Analytics, reveal that Android’s global market share currently stands at 88%. This is for Q3 of 2016 and is up from 84.1% that was recorded during the same period last year. This means that out of every 10 smartphones in use, about 8 of them are running on Android. In second place…

If you are an Apple fan and you have signed up to be part of the beta program, you may be happy to know that iOS 10.2 beta is finally available for you to download. Apple pushed out this update two days ago bringing some much-needed changes to the platform. The one big addition is the ‘Preserve Camera Setting’ that allows users to keep the camera mode, live photo settings and photo filter where they were set the last time even if the camera app was shut down. This helpful as you will not be forced to keep adjusting your…

Since people already spend time on social networks, it makes sense for these companies try and get companies on these platforms and hence make money through ads. Instagram is one such company and the social networking platform is currently testing a new product-tagging feature that will let companies advertise and sell their products through its platform. Instagram is planning to introduce tags that will allow companies to tag their products inside images. This is exactly how you can tag a user right now on the social networking platform. When companies tag their products, users will be able to purchase the…