Author: Kaluka wanjala

If you have been waiting for HTC’s smartphone for 2016, the wait is finally over as the company has finally unveiled the HTC 10. Yes, the company has dropped the ‘One M’ branding it has been using the last couple of year. The HTC 10 is truly made to perfection and any Android enthusiast (and some iOS) fans will appreciate that. HTC has always built beautiful smartphones and the 10 is no different. From the very first photos, you realize this is truly a flagship device. As for the specs, the HTC 10 has a 5.2 inch display with a…

By 2025, jobs which were common place in 2015 will no longer exist. Students graduating in 2016, will have obsolete qualifications for which there will no longer be a profession by 2025. Front-line military personnel will be replaced with robots Private bankers and wealth managers will be replaced with algorithms Telemarketers, data entry capturers, tax preparers, lawyers, accountants, actuaries, statisticians and consulting engineers will be replaced with Artificial Intelligence (AI). New business models, like those of Uber and Alibaba, are already industry-shaping disruptors, and each day, new Digital innovators are emerging to cause disintermediation and disruption across every industry imaginable.…

Tecno is set to launch a new 8-inch tablet in Kenya in about a week or two. This will be the fourth tablet from the company to be launched in Kenya in two consecutive years. The other three tablets by the company include the DroiPad 7Cs, DroiPad 8H, WinPad10 all of which were launched in 2015. The DroiPad 8II will be available in retail stores before the end of this month but the company is yet to give a specific date on that. Unlike previous tablets from the company which were sold through Safaricom retail stores, the DroiPad 8II will…

Samsung has pushed out an update for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones to fix some bugs and improve some features. The new firmware update is addressing one main issue that some users have been having for a while. The issue users have reported is that one-handed use is not so smooth on the Galaxy S7 Edge. According to the changelog, this update brings minor bug fixes, device stability improvements, further improvements in performance and shape correction for skewed photos. Revising palm rejection is perhaps the main thing the update is fixing. This update has just started rolling out…

BlackBerry will be switching focus to mid-range smartphones this year and plans to release two smartphones in the category by the end of the year. The company’s CEO John Chen said yesterday that its first Android smartphone was set too high for customers. This was the BlackBerry Priv which was launched a while back and was received well by consumers. The BlackBerry Priv was a flagship smartphone with a $700 price tag and this may have stopped some people from buying the phone even though it has some premium specs you expect on high end smartphone. BlackBerry knows this and…

Back in October 2015, Sony promised that it would be updating some of its older Xperia devices to the latest Android iteration, Marshmallow. The company kept its promise and is currently updating the Xperia Z2, Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact smartphones to the latest update, Marshmallow. The Sony Xperia Z2 was launched back in February 2014 while the Z3 and Z3 Compact were launched in September of the same year (2014). As you can see these are pretty old devices and it is a good thing to see that Sony is still supporting them. The update that Sony is…

HTC is yet to unveil its 2016 flagship smartphone and from the leaks we have seen online the past few weeks, we know that the phone is about to be launched. HTC has an event on Tuesday next week (April 12) and this is where we expect to see this smartphone. The company has previously teased some of the features this phone will come with but as with every teaser, we never get the full picture until the phone is launched. We have heard about the audio system of the HTC 10 and now we are getting new information that…

If you own the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 you may be happy to know that you will be getting the Android Marshmallow update very soon. The Update has started seeding to the Exynos version of the Galaxy Note 4 in some countries. Some users in the US, India and Poland are reporting having gotten the updates for their devices. This is believed to be a controlled roll out and we expect a full OTA update to start rolling out in the next few weeks or months. Samsung has been very active in getting some of its recent devices to Android…

Facebook rolled out Messenger app as a standalone messaging app a while back and its growth has been tremendous so far. The messaging app now has over 900 million active monthly users which makes it one of the biggest messaging apps out there in terms of Active user base. This was revealed yesterday and shows that the user base has grown by over 100 million the past three months. Even through Messenger is a standalone app, it is still linked to the official Facebook app which has a user base of over 1 billion. All About Business As it announced…

Reddit finally has its own Android App. This was one of the things most users have been requesting and it is finally here. There have been other apps of the Play Store but none of them were officially made by Reddit. They were all from fans who wanted a better smartphone experience when using Reddit. Since these were third party apps, they do not offer the best experience and functionality that users wanted. Reddit is one of the most popular websites out there and for it not to have an official app is very strange and considering that most people…