Author: Kaluka wanjala

Huawei is one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers in terms of market share. The company has a huge market share in its home country of china and most other international markets. The company’s market presence can only be rivalled by manufacturers such as Samsung, Apple and Xiaomi. Last year, the company sold over 108 million devices globally. This is not a small figure and it expects even better figures this year. The company expects to sell over 120 million units by the end of the year which is an increase of 12 million from 2015 figures. Initially, the company had…

Dropbox is updating its mobile apps with new productivity tools. One of the main additions this update is bringing is the ability to scan documents by using the mobile app and save it directly within Dropbox. With this update, the company is positioning its app as the go to productivity solution out there. In a video posted online, the company is teasing improved productivity features for its platform. The ability to scan documents is the biggest and best addition so far. To be able to use the mobile app to scan documents, just open the app and take a picture…

For most people, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are the two most reliable browsers out there. Even though most Windows PCs and laptops come with Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer preinstalled, most people prefer to download Chrome, Firefox or Opera instead. Microsoft on the other hand thinks that you should not be using any of the other browsers and instead use Edge browser. According to the company, browsing the web using Edge instead of the other browsers gives you more battery life. Edge browser is available on Windows 10 so this means that you will get the extra battery life…

Last week, we told you that 95% of all OLED displays shipped during Q1 of 2016 came from Samsung. We even told you about the new deal between Samsung and Apple that will see the former supply OLED displays to be used on some iPhone models to be released in 2017. This deal has not been announced officially but industry insiders say the two have already reached an agreement. Back to Samsung, the company has bumped up production of OLED displays by 50% as it gets ready to supply some of them to Apple come 2017. Apple is said to…

Photo and video sharing is the new trend across all social networking sites. This means that every social networking site that wants to keep users engaged has to make it easy for them to share photos and videos with their friends/followers. Twitter is one such social networking site and it is implementing some changes in regards to the videos shared on its site. From now on, users will be able to share videos that are between 30 and 140 seconds long. 140 seconds is a whole 2 minutes and 20 seconds so users will be able to share more meaningful…

Instagram is one of the fastest growing social networking sites out there and that is why we (TechArena) joined the site a few week ago, you can go and follow us here. The number of people signing up to use Instagram has been on the rise and now stands at 500 million active monthly users. The total number of users who have signed up to use Instagram is way higher and the last time I checked it was at 800 million.  The 500 million active monthly users number was revealed by Instagram yesterday and comes a few weeks after the…

In April this year, Huawei officially unveiled its 2016 flagship smartphone, the Huawei P9. The Huawei P9 has a dual camera setup at the back and this is its main selling point. The phone was officially launched in Kenya earlier this month and you can get it for Ksh 55,000. I got my hands on this device and thought I should give you a preview of what it’s all about before the full review. What is in the box The Huawei P9 is a flagship device so you get everything in the box, nothing was axed from the list to…

Back in April when Tecno officially unveiled the Boom J8 smartphone, it also unveiled its new custom User Interface (UI), HiOS. THE Boom J8 was the first smartphone from the company to come with HiOS out of the box. Having a custom UI is not anything new in the smartphone market, most other manufacturers have had their own custom UIs for years. Samsung has Touchwiz, Huawei has Emotion UI, Xiaomi has MiUI, HTC has Sense UI. There are many other custom UIs on the market and the next one that we will be seeing a lot will be from Infinix.…

The Samsung Galaxy J7 was one of the most popular smartphones of 2015. This phone is known for its superior camera performance especially the front facing camera that will put to shame some high end smartphone out there. If you own the Galaxy J7, you will be happy to know that Samsung has started rolling out the Marshmallow update to your device. The phone launched with Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box and it looks like Samsung is ready to update it to Marshmallow. The update has started rolling out to some users in Russia so we should expect…

When you look at most smartphones on the market, you will notice that most of these devices tend to offer the same thing. There are some manufacturers out there that try their best to differentiate their smartphones from what you can get on the market. This strategy has worked perfectly in most other markets but in Kenya we have not seen many manufacturers trying to be different and we are stuck with devices that share a lot of similarities even though they come from different manufacturers. Wileyfox is one company that plans to bring some changes to the Kenyan smartphone…