Author: Kaluka wanjala

A few weeks ago, we told you that Samsung is planning to launch the Galaxy A7 (2017) anytime soon, probably before the end of 2016. We told you this as we have seen almost every relevant authority certify the device and the only thing that is remaining is for Samsung to launch it. Well, Samsung is yet to officially launch the device but we have the first images of the device thanks to the product training materials that have leaked online. The training materials show two variants of the phone, a black one and a gold one. The design of…

Dropbox is one useful app but can be frustrating to use if you do not have an active internet connection. This is all changing today as long as you have a premium account. The company has just announced that those with such accounts are getting offline folder support that will allow them to work on the go. In a statement, the company said, “This feature has been a top request from users, so we’re excited to bring it…With mobile offline folders, you can tag an entire folder to have its contents automatically synced to your phone or tablet—no need to…

Taking a look into the future, Ericsson Consumer Lab presents the sixth edition of its annual trend report The 10 Hot Consumer Trends for 2017 and beyond. Artificial Intelligence is an important theme this year and consumers see it playing a much more prominent role than before – both in society and at work. In fact, 35 percent of advanced internet users want an AI advisor at work, and one in four would like an AI as their manager. These are the 10 trends for 2017 and beyond: AI Everywhere: 35 percent of advanced internet users want an AI advisor at work, and…

If you own the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier or the S3 Classic, sit tight as you may be getting an update soon. The company has just started rolling out the first OTA firmware update to the two devices. Given that it is an OTA update, all you have to do is sit and wait for the notification of the same on your device. The update is quite small, about 14MB in size, and has already rolled out to some users in Europe and the United States. Since it has already rolled out to some users, it won’t take long before…

A new month has just started and with that Google has released the latest Android distribution numbers that are meant to show us which Android versions are popular and which ones aren’t. The latest numbers released by Google show that Android 5.0 and 5.1 Lollipop are the most popular variants at the moment. They have a combined market share of 34%, this is a drop of 0.1% from the same period last month but is still quite a huge percentage for an OS that was first released in November 2014. Android 6.0 Marshmallow comes in second with a 26.3% market…

BlackBerry isn’t done with smartphones just yet. The company has released a couple of smartphones running on Android and thus ditched its own platform, BB10 OS, that doesn’t seem to gain any traction on the market. Even with Android, BlackBerry hasn’t had a smooth ride as its Android powered devices are not selling as many units as we expected. The next device we expect from the company is the BlackBerry ‘Mercury’ that will be powered by Android. We have been hearing about this device since October and since the company has said that it had plans to release 3 Android…

We live in a tech fuelled-world that and this means that we must do all we can to ensure the kids (future generation) have the skills that can help them navigate this world when they grow up. This is what Microsoft is planning to do this week with the ‘Hour of Code’ workshop that helps young kids learn basic coding skills. Hour of Code is a weeklong event that is taking place during the 2016 Computer Science Education Week from December 5th to the 11th. The first workshop was held yesterday at Kangemi Resource Centre yesterday and saw kids as…

Even before half of the smartphone manufacturers update their existing devices with Android 7.0 Nougat, Google is coming out with another minor update that introduces Android 7.1.1. The company says that this update “showcases more ways to express yourself, along with a handful of other sweet features and improvements to stability and performance.” This update has just been pushed out and is available to a few devices including the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus Player and Pixel C. This is an over the air update that users of these devices can get as…

If you own an old smartphone running an old operating system, it is high time you consider updating the OS or buy a new device if you want to continue getting support from WhatsApp in 2017. Earlier in the year, WhatsApp came and revealed that it will stop supporting some devices by the end of the year. The company said that BlackBerry devices (including those running BlackBerry 10), Nokia S40 and Symbian S60 devices, Android 2.2 and 2.1, iOS 6 as well as Windows 7.1 devices will not be supported come 2017. When making the announcement, WhatsApp said that it…

When LG launched the V20 smartphone a few months ago, the company wanted everyone to know that this was the first smartphone to come with Android Nougat. Unfortunately, these bragging rights were only reserved to those who bought the V20, those who own older devices were stuck with older Android iterations until recently. The company started testing out Android Nougat for its 2016 flagship, the LG G5 a few weeks ago. The company started with its home country of South Korea before expanding to the United states and is now expanding to even more countries. According to GSMArena, some users…