Author: Kaluka wanjala

LG will be unveiling its latest smartphone, the LG G5, later this month at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016. LG has already sent out invitations for an event it has on February 21st. This will be the same day that Samsung has set to unveil its latest flagship, the Galaxy S7. Read More: Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S7 on February 21 LG has confirmed that the G5 will be at the event and right now it looks like it will be the first flagship smartphone from a major manufacturer this year. This is if Samsung doesn’t jump ahead of…

Microsoft has shown interest in both Android and iOS but not with devices but rather with apps. Most of the company’s popular and unpopular apps have been making their way into these different platforms and the company has been offering them free to users. The company’s latest move in the apps market is its acquisition of SwiftKey, the popular Android and iOS keyboard. Microsoft has paid $250 million for the company behind this popular third party keyboard that has been downloaded over 300 million times from the Apple App store and Google Play store combined. As I have mentioned above,…

The future of Microsoft Lumia devices is unknown at this point. We have heard the Microsoft was planning to introduce new ‘Surface smartphones’ and that the soon to be launched Lumia 650 will be the last Lumia smartphone. This may or may not be true but we are getting even more confused as new images of what is believed to be the Lumia 850 have just surfaced online. We have heard of the Lumia 850 before but never saw its actual photos before. Since the photos do not come with any Lumia 850 branding, this phone may just turn out…

Alcatel is set to announce two new smartphones later this month at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016). These two smartphones are the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4 and 4S. Alcatel has of course not said anything about these smartphones but their specs have already leaked online raising our expectations. From the leaked specs, these two smartphones really look attractive and worth looking into. The Alcatel Idol 4S Starting with the Alcatel Idol 4S, it has a 5.5 inch QHD AMOLED display. Underneath, it is powered by a 1.8GHz + 1.4GHz octa-core CPU with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal…

Uber is not new to controversy, almost everything the company has done has always been met with obstruction. This was the case yesterday when the Taxi hailing app changed its logo and decided to share the good news with its fans. You would have thought that people will be excited with this new logo but this was not the case. The Dailydot said this logo is Ugly while the DailyMail said it is bizarre. Of course there were other publications that had some nice words for this new logo. Check out the logo below. The above shared Logo is what…

Android’s latest iteration, Android Marshmallow is installed in just 1.2% of all Android devices on the market. This is according to the most recent Android distribution numbers that Google has released. This is a slight jump from a market share of 0.7% that Marshmallow had last month. Android Marshmallow has been around for months and it is strange to see reach a market share of 1.2%. You can blame the OEMs for not rolling out this update to their devices, this is one of the few ways for this number to go up very fast. The other way is for…

Yesterday, I told you about WhatsApp reaching a new milestone of over 1 billion active monthly users. Well, it looks like WhatsApp is not the only company that has reached this milestone. When announcing its earnings call, Alphabet (the company that owns Google) said that Gmail currently has over 1 billion monthly active users. It has taken Gmail over a decade to cross the 1 billion mark but either way this is impressive. Gmail launched back in 2004 and has revolutionized the market and is the most popular email client out there. https://twitter.com/gmail/status/694290964559429632 Back in 2013, Gmail became the most…

A few days ago, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared some usage stats for the different platforms the company owns. These were Facebook itself, Messenger app, WhatsApp and Instagram. Back then, he revealed that WhatsApp has 900 million monthly users but it looks like the real figure is well over 1 billion. Read More: Mark Zuckerberg Shows How Big Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Are in The Social Media Space In a statement, the company said, “WhatsApp began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing…

For a while now, Apple has been the world’s most valuable company. The company has just been dethroned from this post with Alphabet, an Umbrella company that Google falls under. This company has been around for about 6 months and owns a bunch of other companies out there. Read More: Why Google Is Restructuring Under a New Umbrella Company Called Alphabet Alphabet released its Q4 2015 earnings yesterday which were positive and these helped the company’s stock price to shoot up. The stock price rose so much and the overall value of the company surpassed Apple’s value. Apple seems to…

Yesterday, we told you that the Samsung Galaxy S7 will be unveiled later this month on February 21 a day before MWC 2016 officially begins. This will be the company’s flagship device for 2016 and comes into the market before any other big manufacturer. Read More: Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S7 on February 21 As we get closer to the launch date, expect to see leaks that give us a clue as to what to expect from this smartphone. The latest information we have comes from @evleaks (on Twitter) and shows us the official design of both the Samsung…