Author: Kaluka wanjala

Google has been very successful with most of its ventures but the one area the company is still struggling is with messaging and especially with Google Hangouts. Hangouts app has been around for a while and even though it has over 1 billion installs on the Play Store, very few people use it. Most people who use it are techies as the other people prefer the other simple-to-use messaging apps such as WhatsApp. For those who use Google Hangouts for Android, there is a new update coming your way that will allow you to send video messages to your buddies.…

For those who use GIFs on Twitter, you will be happy to know that the company has bumped up the size limit from 5MB to 15MB. This is a huge update for those who prefer to use GIFs instead of texts as you get 3 times the size you have had before. At the moment, you can only share the 15MB GIFs on Twitter’s web platform and not its mobile apps. Twitter is yet to confirm when support for larger GIFs will be available on its mobile platforms, or if that will happen at all. It is not clear why…

Samsung has finally confirmed that it will launch the Galaxy Note 7 on August 2. This confirmation also reveals that Samsung will skip the ‘Galaxy Note 6’. We still aren’t sure why the company skipped the Note 6 but it probably wants to match its flagship smartphone (Galaxy S) and flagship phablet (the Galaxy Note) series. The current flagship smartphone from Samsung is the Galaxy S7 and it looks like the company wants the Note 7 to match with that. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will be unveiled at an event in New York according to the company. If the…

At the beginning of every month, Google releases the latest Android distribution numbers showing us the most and least popular versions. These numbers keep changing every months as more devices come into the market and some of the existing ones get updated. Unlike iOS, the latest Android versions do not enjoy a bigger market share since manufacturers are not always willing to update all their existing devices at the same time. This means some users, especially those with entry level devices, are stuck with older Android versions. For July, Google is reporting that Android Marshmallow is installed in 13.3% of…

When Qualcomm announced its latest processor, the Snapdragon 821, we were all expecting to see it on the Galaxy Note 7 which will be unveiled a few months from now. It looks like Samsung has lost the bragging right of being the first manufacturer to have this processor as Asus has just launched its first smartphone with the processor. The Asus ZenFone 3 Deluxe is the first smartphone in the world to come with the Snapdragon 821 processor. As you may have guessed it, this is the same ZenFone 3 Deluxe the company launched back in May and the only…

For a few months now, we have been hearing a lot about the Huawei Honor 8 smartphone. The Huawei Honor series is made up of affordable devices with better specs when you compare them to devices offered by other manufacturers. The Honor 8 takes over from the Honor 7 that was unveiled in 2015 and will be the premium device in the Honor series. The Huawei Honor 8 has finally been launched and from its specs, it is clear that it borrows a lot from its big brother, the Huawei P9. Starting with the display, it comes with the same…

A few days after launching the Galaxy J2, Samsung has launched yet another affordable smartphone, the galaxy J1 Ace Neo. This phone is a variant of the Galaxy J1 and comes with entry level specs that will reflect that. Given that this is an entry level smartphone, there was no huge launch event as the phone was posted directly to Samsung’s website. As for specs, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Ace Neo comes with a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. This is a very small display for a smartphone in 2016 considering that…

Security is one of the things most people care about when online. For the last 12 months, we have seen many platforms up their security to give users the peace of mind when using them. Security is particularly important when it comes to messaging apps. Out of the may messaging apps, Telegram is probably the only one that showed it cared about user security even before other apps such as WhatsApp joined the party. WhatsApp introduced end-to-end encryption back in April and this was one of the main steps it took this year to ensure security and privacy of users…

Xiaomi is undoubtedly one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers out there. last year, the company sold over 70.8 million smartphones and it controls about 5% of the global smartphone market share. This is impressive considering that it has been around for about 6 years. Xiaomi is known for its slightly affordable devices that come with premium specs and this is what has helped it grow so fast. Xiaomi has two main smartphone lineups, the Mi series and the Redmi series. The Mi series is made of its premium devices that costs a fraction of what premium devices from other manufactures…

For the past few months, we have seen high-profile individuals get their different online accounts hacked. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had his Quora profile hacked while Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, saw his LinkedIn, Twitter, and Pinterest breached. The latest high profile individual to have his account breached in Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey. His official Twitter account was hacked briefly over the weekend. He is the CEO of Twitter and no one expected him to be hacked on his own platform. The hackers that hacked Jack Dorsey are going by the name “OurMine”. They are the same ones who hacked Mark…