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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…

Huawei Officially unveiled the P9 and P9 Plus smartphones as its flagship devices for 2016. These were the only two smartphones the company introduced to us unlike last year where there was a smaller version of the flagship, the Huawei P8 Lite. The rumors that were there before the company officially announced the P9 and P9 Plus had indicated that there was to be a smaller and affordable version of the P9 to be called the Huawei P9 Lite. This never happened but it looks like it will be happening very soon. We are getting information that Huawei is planning…

Huawei officially unveiled its 2016 flagship smartphone, the Huawei P9 yesterday at an event in London. The first wave of the global launch of this phone will be later this month on April 29 and Kenya is not on the list for this. The good news is that the Huawei P9 will be launched in Kenya sometime next month (May). Huawei has not revealed the exact date when the P9 will be launched in the country but it’s a good thing to see the company bring its flagship device in the country within a month after its global launch. Of…

Oracle is gearing up on hosting a one-of-a-kind Oracle Cloud Day event next week, to showcase the firm’s fully integrated stack of cloud applications, platform services, and engineered systems. Set to be held on April 14, 2016, the Oracle Cloud Day will be implemented by connecting more than 30 countries from the East to the West of Africa, live across 4 time zones. This event will be rolled-out by using Oracle’s superior Cloud technology, reaching over more than 30 locations and using webinar technology to engage regions simultaneously. The event will bring together over 1100 people including Oracle employees and…

Huawei has finally unveiled its 2016 flagship smartphones that we have been hearing about for the past few months. These smartphones that include the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus were unveiled yesterday in London. The new ‘Plus’ branding represents a name change from the ‘Max’ branding we have seen on devices such as the Huawei P8 Max. The Huawei P9 The main flagship from the company this year is the Huawei P9. This device has a 5.2 inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. This display may seem small by the current market standards but…