Author: Kaluka wanjala

Back in October 2015, Huawei unveiled the Honor 5X to its customers in China. This phone came with an interesting spec combination including a 5.5 inch display, a Snapdragon 616 processor, 2 or 3GB of RAM, a 13MP camera at the back and a 3000 mAh battery. All these specs and the phone retails for Ksh 28,000 here in Kenya as the Huawei GR5. Back to the Honor 5X, it is being reported that over 8 million units have been sold since launch. This is according to Zhao Ming who heads the Honor brand and he revealed this when unveiling…

Towards the end of every year, Samsung usually updates its Galaxy Note family with a new device. This year will not be different and we expect the company to unveil the Galaxy Note 7 in about 2 months from now. The current Note device is the Galaxy Note 5 and it looks like Samsung will be skipping the Note 6 as it goes directly to the Note 7. We have been seeing a lot of information about this device with the most recent one being that it will come with Android Marshmallow and not Android N. As we get close…

WhatsApp is making some changes on its platform to improve your experience when using its app. The company is introducing quoted messages that will allow you to reply to specific messages whether chatting to one person in a one on one conversation or in a group conversation. This feature will be very important in group settings as you will be able to reply to one person even if there are several messages from other group member. It makes it easier for the other parties in the group to know what you are replying to. This feature has been rolling out…

Lenovo’s Tech World conference took place yesterday and took the opportunity to introduce the new Phab2 Pro smartphone that has been in production for a while. The Lenovo Phab2 Pro smartphone stands out as being the first Project Tango phone. If you don’t know, Project Tango (or just Tango) is Google’s camera system that is able to detect physical objects in 3D. Launching this smartphone may be part of Lenovo’s plan to break into the American market. The company has had a tough time breaking into the US mobile market and hopefully this new smartphone may help things out a…

Tinder is one of the apps that no one will admit to have used. It has its own controversies that have accompanied it ever since it launched. Tinder, if you don’t know, is a location based dating service that has grown in popularity and is one of the fastest growing and popular dating apps out there. Tinder is making some changes to its platform in regards to the age policy. Ever since it launched, the age limit for you to be able to use Tinder was 13 years old but the company wants to change this. It is planning to…

In the new Ericsson ConsumerLab report, “Wearable technology and the internet of things”, six in 10 smartphone users state that wearables have uses beyond health and wellness. Devices related to personal safety and security, such as panic buttons and personal locators, attract most interest: Top five most-wanted wearables across five markets surveyed (% interested & willing to buy): 1. Panic/SOS button – 32% 2. Smartwatch – 28% 3. Wearable Location Tracker   – 27% 4. Identity Authenticator – 25% 5. Wearable Water Purifier – 24% The report captures the opinions of 5,000 smartphone users (of which 2,500 are wearable users)…

Lenovo has announced the Lenovo Smart Meeting Room Solution – a collaboration with Intel featuring the ThinkCentre Tiny desktop and Intel Unite technology which will transform meeting room spaces, change the way employees collaborate and provide a valuable boost to productivity. The ThinkCentre Tiny desktop with Intel vPro will leverage the new Intel Unite technology which allows devices to connect wirelessly to new or existing displays, projectors, or interactive whiteboards — no cables needed. Meeting attendees can view and present up to four presentations at the same time, while also sharing and annotating content. According to two separate studies, meetings…

Even as Google is getting ready to launch Android N later in the year, there are some devices out there that are still running on old Android iterations. This was clear in the latest Android distribution numbers that revealed that the latest public Android version, Marshmallow is still not the most popular one and is installed in just 10.1% of all devices. Going forward, Alcatel wants to change things and the way it rolls out the latest Android updates. The company is finally updating one its 2015 flagship, the Alcatel Idol 3 with Android Marshmallow. If you have this device,…

Back in March, Google officially released the first Android N preview for developers. We were not expecting to see it this early as the company usually unveils new Android iterations at its annual Google I/O event. When Google was releasing the developer preview, the company did not reveal the final name and this left us guessing as to which name the company will pick. The official release of Android N and the next Nexus devices will be happening in the next few months and Google plans to unveil the official Android N name way before that. The company has confirmed…

Samsung has been launching a new Galaxy Note device during the third quarter of every year and this year will not be different. We expect to see this device a few months from today. The 2016 iteration of the company’s phablet series is confusing at this point as some people are saying that Samsung will call it the Galaxy Note 7 and not the Note 6. We are still not sure why but this is what the rumours are suggesting. We don’t care so much about the name at this point, all we want to see is the device itself.…