Author: Kaluka wanjala

At this point, there is no end in sight in the US-China trade war. We are just not sure what will come out of this or if this will be the new normal. Huawei is one company caught in the middle of all this and the company has seen slight decline in sales in some markets. American companies are banned from doing business with Huawei and this means that Google, one of the key players in the Android ecosystem, is not allowed to continue doing business with the Chinese manufacturer. With the ban, new Huawei smartphones do not come with…

WhatsApp has been adding dark mode to its Android and iOS apps to keep up with this latest trend. The company introduced dark mode for Android a while back and just recently introduced the same to beta version for WhatsApp for iOS. For Android, dark mode for WhatsApp is available on version 2.20.13 beta. With WhatsApp for Android, dark mode brings with it a range of colour options including black, dark brown, dark navy, dark olive, dark purple, and dark velvet. With its two main mobile applications out of the way, the Facebook-owned company is working on a dark theme…

The Huawei Y6s is launching in Kenya soon and will be the latest in the company’s Y series to launch in Kenya. I do have a unit for review and with that, I had to do an unboxing post and give you my first impressions on this phone. The Huawei Y6s will be available in retail stores for around Ksh 14,000 and is the successor to the Y6 Prime from last year. At this price, it is competing with some good phones from Tecno and Infinix and since these two companies are yet to launch their phones for 2020, the…

Huawei is no doubt in a very tough spot right now. The US government has banned companies like Google from working with the Chinese giant. With this, Huawei is not allowed to pre-install some Google apps and services on its new phones. This means that access to the Play Store is limited and this definitely affects those who buy Huawei phones as most people who buy and use Android phones are used to having access to the Play Store. Huawei has always had a Play Store alternative, App Gallery, but the company hasn’t been aggressively recruiting people to use it…

Pop-up selfie cameras are gaining popularity as more manufacturers look for ways to get rid of the notch on their devices or just to provide a better experience with their phones. We saw this trend last year and we expect it to go mainstream this year. Pop-up selfie cameras have so far been used by some of the top smartphone manufacturers. Players such as Infinix and Tecno who target the low-end segment of the market are yet to release devices with such cameras. Infinix may be the first of the two to release a phone with a pop-up camera this…

Huawei has had a tough time recently as it came under the US government’s ban hammer. With this ban, Huawei was barred from doing business with most US companies. For its mobile division, Huawei has Google as a major partner and this means that the ban affects one of its very core businesses as its phones are powered by Android with some Google services on top. Google still works with Huawei to continue providing security updates to its phones that were released on or before May 16, 2019. All the other smartphones released after this are not getting any guarantees…

Huawei is getting to ready to launch yet another smartphone in the Kenya market. The company is planning to launch the Huawei Y6s that is in the entry level category and most probably succeeds the Huawei Y6 Prime 2019. The Huawei Y6s will be available as from March 4th in retail stores across the country. Before that, you will be able to pre-order it from February 24 all through to March 3rd. The price of the phone has not been revealed yet but that will be happening soon. The company is currently running a price guessing competition for those who…

Opera has announced the installation of its new local servers in Kenya. These new servers will be in Mombasa and the company says will go a long way in increasing browsing speeds by up to 4 times. With these speed improvements, the company says those who use Opera products including the Opera Mini browser should expect better experiences. Opera Mini has a very huge user base in Kenya and Africa and having a local server can go a long way in improving user experience. One of the ways user experience can be improved is by improving connectivity speeds according to…

Earlier today, Safaricom announced the roll out of its new number prefixes. This roll out was a long time coming as we have been expecting it to happen sometime this year. With the roll out of these new prefixes, I thought it is a good idea to summarize some of the things you need to know. The Prefixes The new prefixes rolling out are 0110 and 0111. SIM cards with these new prefixes will be available countrywide at all Safaricom shops and dealer outlets. We are used to the 07x prefixes and the new ones will most definitely confuse some…

With Dark Mode being a favourite feature with most of the apps out there, it is a surprise that Facebook has not been keen to embrace it. The company implemented dark mode on its Messenger app but we never got to see it on the main Facebook applications. Facebook has been testing dark mode for its Android app since last August but the feature is yet to roll out to all users. There was no timeline as to when the feature will roll out to all users and all we have been doing is wait to see what the company…