Author: Kaluka wanjala

Windows Phone (Mobile) has had a very bumpy ride the last couple of years. Its market share has been dropping as people prefer to go with either Android or iOS. As people ditch the platform, developers have also been pulling their apps off the platform as it just does not make sense to keep making the apps if people are not using the platform. Rovio, which is considered to be one of the best mobile gaming companies, has announced that it will no longer release its games to the Windows Phone platform. The company is known for making the very…

Samsung has confirmed that it will be releasing the Galaxy Note 7 on August 2. Even with this confirmation, the company is still now revealing to us what specs the phablet will come with and we are left to deal with the leaks and rumors that we can never be sure are 100% correct. We have heard a ton of rumors about the Galaxy Note 7 and the most recent one suggested that it will come with a newer display technology that will make it possible for Samsung to make the Note 7 thinner than the Note 5. To add…

A few weeks ago, Xiaomi officially launched the global version of MIUI 8 as it unveiled the Mi Max in India. When launching MIUI 8, Xiaomi said that the beta version will be available to users on July 11 before it releases the stable version sometime in August. July 11 came and passed and Xiaomi did not disappoint as it released the global beta ROM of MIUI 8. This release will not be available for all Xiaomi customers as the company says that it will be rolling it out to select devices before the other get it at a later…

Smartphone cameras have improved the last couple of years as consumers keep demanding the best of the best from manufacturers. This has forced manufacturers to try different things as they set themselves apart from other players and convince the customers that they are the best. HTC tried it with the dual 4MP camera on the One M8 but this was not very convincing. Then Huawei came with a dual camera setup on its 2016 flagship, the P9. The Huawei P9 sort of made the dual camera setup mainstream and we expect to see these on other manufacturers this year. One…

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…