Author: Kaluka wanjala

Have you heard of LeEco? Probably not. You may not have heard about the company but trust me it is one of the fastest rising manufacturers out of china. The company has some amazing devices most of which have almost bezel-less designs and other flagship features at affordable prices. Here in Kenya, you can get LeEco phones from Avechi. LeEco has today unveiled three new smartphones which are the Le Max 2, Le 2 and Le 2 Pro. All these smartphones are missing earphone jacks something we expect to find on every smartphone. The earphone jacks have been replaced with…

Samsung is believed to be testing a new sensor that it will include in all its future flagship devices. To be specific, the company is rumored to be working on a 1/1.7″ CMOS sensor for smartphones according to PhotoRumors. Just to put it into perspective, the company’s current flagship, the Galaxy S7, is using a 1/2.6″ sensor size. According to PhotoRumors, the new sensor that Samsung is working on may have an aperture as wide as f/1.4 from the f/1.7 used on the Galaxy S7. With this new sensor that Samsung is working on, PhotoRumors concludes that Samsung wants to…

Last month, Samsung started updating its 2014 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5 with Android marshmallow. At that time, this update was only available for only one model of the S5, the SM-G900L variant. Samsung did not say when users with other models should expect the update on their devices are we were all kept waiting. If you own the Galaxy S5 with model number SM-G900F, you may be happy to know that you can now update your device to Android Marshmallow. This is the most widely used model of the S5 and it makes sense for Samsung to update it…

Back in February, Sony announced a new smartphone lineup, the Xperia X series. This new lineup was announced as a replacement to the company’s current Z line. Some of the first devices in this new series that Sony announced include Xperia X, Xperia X Performance, and Xperia XA. It looks like these are not the only Xperia X devices that Sony will be launching this year as we are hearing that the company is also working on the Xperia X Premium which is believed to the successor to the company’s 2015 flagship, the Xperia Z5. The Xperia X Premium as…

According to a research firm statista, Android users download quite a huge number of apps from the app store last quarter. The research firm is reporting that the Google play store saw 11.1 billion downloads during the first quarter of 2016. This is a very big number no matter how you look at it. There are over 2 million apps on the Google play store and for total downloads to reach 11 billion in just 3 months is just impressive. This is a new record for the play store and represents a growth of 6.7% from the same period last…

Last week, we told you that Sony had started updating some Xperia Z2, Z3 and Z3 Compact in select markets to Android Marshmallow. This was sort of a test roll out and that is why it was not available to all users back then. The good news about this is that the testing was successful and the company is ready to update all the remaining Xperia Z2 and Z3 smartphones. It is being reported that Sony is now updating the remaining Xperia Z2, Z3, Z3 Dual, and Z3 Compact phones that were not included in the initial beta program. The…

Xiaomi has been breaking records ever since it started operations about 6 years ago. The company has been reaching new heights that some other manufacturers can only dream of. If you thought that Xiaomi has reached its peak, you have to think otherwise as we are getting reports that the company managed to ship over 14.8 million handsets during the first three months of 2016. Read: 4 Million Xiaomi Mi 5 Units Were Sold in Its First Flash Sale This is according to IHS Technology analyst Kevin Wang and from that it shows that Xiaomi ships close to 5 million…

Yesterday, we told you that Samsung is about to introduce a new smartphone lineup, the Galaxy C series, to target the mid-range market segment. We even told you about the Galaxy C5 which is supposed to be the first device in this lineup. The Galaxy C5 is said to have a 5.2 inch Full HD display with 4GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 617 processor and will be unveiled before the second half of the year. The Galaxy C5 will not be the only device in this series that Samsung is working on as we know that the company may…

We all know that Google is currently working on the next Android iteration, Android N. The first developer preview is already out months ahead of Google annual I/O event and this means that we should expect the public release later in the year. One new thing that Android N will bring to the platform is support for pressure-sensitive displays. This is similar to what Apple has done with 3D Touch feature on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Including this feature in the OS will make it easier and more affordable for manufacturer to include this feature on their devices.…

Back in the day, Samsung was known for its many devices on the market. The company had a device for every market segment and this is one of the things that helped the company rise above the rest of the manufacturers. The company scaled down a bit on this and reduced the number of devices it has and this is clear in the low end market segment where you can only find a few Galaxy J devices which is very different from the many entry level devices the company had a few years ago. Samsung is planning to change things…