Author: Kaluka wanjala

When BlackBerry decided to release its first Android smartphone, the Priv, not many people knew what to make of that as we had never expected to see BlackBerry venture out of its own OS to embrace Android. Well, BlackBerry proved us wrong and decided to go with Android even as it continued supporting its own OS. Launching an Android phone was not the only thing BlackBerry was to do as the company promised that it was going to support this device with regular updates. Since the BlackBerry Priv was launched with Android Lollipop, we were expecting it to be updated…

A few weeks ago, we told you that Sony had started pushing out Android Marshmallow update to some Xperia devices including the Xperia Z2, Z3, Z3 Dual, and Z3 Compact phones. Missing from this list was the Xperia Z3 tablet and Sony did not say when or if it was to get updated. This angered some people who own the tablet as they felt like the tablet is part of the Xperia Z3 family and should have been updated with the others. If you have the Xperia Z3 tablet, you may be happy to know that you can now update…

Barley a month after unveiling its 2016 flagship, HTC has announced the One S9 smartphone to take care of the upper mid-range market segment. Unlike the HTC 10, the One S9 looks a lot more like the previous HTC models and include features such as the two front facing speakers. The interesting thing about this phone is that we did not see leaks about it and all our attention was towards the HTC 10 and when it was announced, we all forgot about HTC. It is finally good to see HTC refresh its mid-range lineup with a new device. And…

A few days ago, we told you about the beta version of Microsoft’s Word Flow keyboard for iOS. With the beta app being tested, we knew that its official launch on the App Store was to happen very soon but Microsoft had not confirmed this so all we heard were speculations. Fast forward about two weeks later and Word Flow keyboard for iOS is now available for the public to download. At the moment it is only available to users in the US and Microsoft has not said if it will be rolling it out to users in other markets.…

MIUI is one of the best Custom ROMs to land on the Android ecosystem. The ROM comes pre-installed on every Xiaomi phone you buy and you probably know about it if you have used any of their devices. The current MIUI version out there is version 7.2 and Xiaomi will be releasing an update to this early next month. The company has confirmed that it will be releasing MIUI 8 on May 10. Xiaomi went ahead to say that MIUI 8 will be bringing a number of new features that users have always been asking for. Xiaomi did not reveal…

Samsung will be releasing its next smartwatch, the Gear S3 in September this year. According to the Korea Herald, Samsung will be announcing the Gear S3 at IFA 2016 in Berlin an event that will be taking place between September 2 – 7. This smartwatch will be taking over from the Gear S2 that the company launched last year. We still don’t know anything about this smartwatch or which OS between Android Wear and Tizen it will be coming with. Right now my guess is that it will be coming with Tizen as Samsung has been trying to push this…

A few weeks ago, we told you that Xiaomi had plans to officially enter the Kenyan market through its distributor, Mobile in Africa. The first two Xiaomi devices that Mobile in Africa will be bringing to Kenya are the Xiaomi Redmi 2 PRO and Redmi Note 2. I have been using the Redmi Note 2 for a while now and I believe I have a better understanding of what it offers. Read More: The Xiaomi Redmi 2 PRO and Redmi Note 2 Will Go On Sale in Kenya This Week The recommended retail price for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2…

Huawei has never been a huge fan of QHD displays and its CEO Richard Yu once said that it is not easy for the naked eye to tell the difference between QHD displays and Full HD displays and that is why the company did not adopt such displays. Even the company’s latest flagship, the Huawei P9, has a Full HD display (1920×1080 pixels) as other manufacturers are using higher resolutions. Not very many people have complained about the Full HD displays on Huawei phones but there are those who saw this as a deal breaker. It looks like Huawei will…

E-commerce in Kenya is still growing and some of the key players in the industry such as Jumia are noticing this. As you expect, most people using e-commerce platform, Jumia, are in Urban areas but surprising enough, people in rural Kenya are also using the service a lot. Jumia recently conducted an internal survey on how people are using its site and the company realized that deliveries to people in rural Kenya had gone up significantly. The company compared its latest figures to where it was a few years ago and clearly things have changed. Back in 2014, urban traffic…

Tecno is about to launch its fourth tablet, the Tecno DroiPad 8II, in two consecutive years. The other three tablets from the company are the DroiPad 7Cs, DroiPad 8H, WinPad10. Tecno seems to be one of the few manufacturers that is serious about tablets. The tablet market in Kenya is still very small as this is probably why you do not see as many tablets as there are smartphones. Even with that, there are still companies such as Tecno that are really trying to capture this market.  As I have mentioned above, Tecno will soon be launching the DroiPad 8II…