Author: Kaluka wanjala

Physical keyboards are not things we expect to see on smartphones these days. Even with that, BlackBerry seems to be the only company that sees the relevance of physical keyboards and will continue producing smartphones with these keyboards going forward. Even as BlackBerry plans to jump ship into Android, the company will not be ditching its signature look, the physical keyboard. Alex Thurber, Senior Vice President for BlackBerry Global Device Sales confirmed this through Twitter saying, “In response to some recent press reports, I want to be clear that BlackBerry users have nothing to fear – the keyboard is here…

At WWDC last month, Apple announced that it will release the public betas for iOS 10 and macOS Sierra later this month. For those who have been waiting for these, you will be happy to know that the public betas are finally out. Apple announced this yesterday and you are free to update your device if you want to be one of the first people to try it. iOS 10 beta is available for the iPhone and iPad but I do not recommend you download it to your primary device just yet. This is because the OS comes with a…

In march this year, Samsung officially unveiled its 2016 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S7. When unveiled, the Samsung Galaxy S7 was said to be the next generation smartphone and its reception on the market was very good. With the good reception, the Galaxy S7 was expected to do well in terms of sales. When the Galaxy S7 hit retail stores, it did not disappoint as demand was high and this pushed sales above the roof. Samsung even expected sales of the S7 to reach 25 million units by the end of June. This is a huge figure for any manufacturer…

Avast is one of the most popular antivirus solution out there used by millions of people around the world. I have been using Avast for as long as I can remember and I can honestly say that it is one of the best, if not the best antivirus solution on the market. Besides Avast, AVG is also another popular antivirus software that is also used by millions of people. Seeing how fast AVG has grown, Avast wants to buy it out for $1.3 billion, the company made this unexpected announcement yesterday. AVG and Avast target slightly different users and we…

Last month, OnePlus officially launched its latest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 3. A few days after the launch of the OnePlus 3, the company announced that it will no longer manufacture cheaper devices under the OnePlus X family to concentrate on the high end devices such as the OnePlus 3. When making the announcement, we did not expect the company to stop producing the OnePlus X immediately. I expected to see the OnePlus X around for at least 6 months before the company decided to stop producing it anymore. It looks like I may have been way too optimistic as…

Apple has always made iPhones with 16GB of storage space as the affordable options for those who didn’t want to spend more money on the 64GB models. For some reason, Apple always thought that iPhones with 32GB of storage space did not make sense and therefore users who saw the 16GB models as being too small had no option but to go with the 64GB model which was more expensive. With the iPhone 7, Apple will be ditching the 16GB model as it finally re-introduces the 32GB model. Am sure there are some users who had hoped to have this…

The Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) is still in production but that has not stopped us from getting some information about the device. The latest leak reveals that the J2 (2016) will come with an alternative to the notification LED that will be an upgrade and something we did not expect to see on a Galaxy J smartphone which is considered a low end smartphone. The new notification feature is referred to as Smart Glow and will be made of an illuminated ring around the back camera. We have seen such notification lights before and as expected, it will light up…

2014 saw BlackBerry re-introduce the Classic smartphone taking us back to the early days when the company ruled the smartphone market. The introduction of the BlackBerry Classic was seen as a move by the company to try and recapture its lost market share but things did not work out as expected. The company still struggled with sales as platforms such as Android and iOS continued growing. With the BlackBerry Classic not doing so well, the company has decided to stop producing it. This was announced by Ralph Pini who is BlackBerry’s Chief Operating Officer and General Manger for Devices. He…

A few years ago, Samsung was known for the many smartphones it had on the market. At some point, the company changed its strategy and streamlined its smartphone lineup to focus on a few devices and maximize on those as competition got tougher. Fast forward a few years later and Samsung seems to be going back to doing what it used to. The company has been introducing new smartphone lineups expanding from the usual Galaxy J, Galaxy A and Galaxy S devices. This year, the company introduced the Galaxy C series that saw the introduction of the Galaxy C5 and…

Samsung seems to be one of the few manufacturers that is actively trying to update as many of its devices with Android Marshmallow as possible. The company has updated a good number of its 2015 devices and some of them such as the Galaxy J5 are not high end ones. This is good move for Samsung considering that there are some manufacturers out there who keep releasing new devices but have not updated their existing ones. The company is keen to update even more devices including the Galaxy A8. This update has just started rolling out to some users of…