Author: Kaluka wanjala

Apple Music is one of the many music streaming services available for music lovers. The service now has 60 million users, both paying subscribers and those using the free option. Apple Music has reached this milestone in the past four years and this is not that bad. Apple Music is available on multiple platforms including Android and it does have some loyal fans on Google’s Mobile OS. In April last year, Apple reported that Apple Music had 40 million subscribers and this means that the platform has added 20 million users in just over a year. This is quite good…

If for some reason you have wanted to share your WhatsApp Status to your Facebook Story, you may be in luck as the company is currently testing this feature. The feature is available on the latest beta build of WhatsApp and this means that we will be seeing it on the public version of the app very soon. WhatsApp has insisted that when using this feature, you will not be linking your WhatsApp ID with your Facebook account. The company says that it is using the standard Android and iOS data sharing APIs so those who were worried about this…

The Huawei P30 series was introduced to the global audience a few months ago and seems to be doing well. The company has reported that sales of the P30 series have reached 10 million in just 85 days. This is a new 3-month sales record for Huawei and is better than what the company recorded with the P20 phones. The P30 series is made up of the Huawei P30, the P30 Pro and the P30 Lite that I reviewed a few weeks ago. All these phone are available in Kenya with the P30 Lite recently discounted to Ksh 23,500 on…

A couple of hours ago, I told you that Tecno was preparing to launch its next flagship smartphone, the Tecno Phantom 9 in Kenya in July. At that point, the company had not confirmed this but we now have the officially confirmation. Tecno has confirmed that the Phantom 9 will be launched in Kenya in the 2nd week of July. “After taking a brief hiatus, the Phantom series is back. It’s now bigger and better and ready to exceed the complex demands of our customers. We love it when our customers challenge us, and the next Phantom is all about…

Last year, we reported that Tecno was not considering having a mew Phantom series as it focused on its Camon series and other devices. The had no plans of releasing a Phantom smartphone in 2018 but that will change in 2019. We do have information that the next Tecno Phantom device will be unveiled in the country next month. At this point I do not have information about its specifications but what I have heard is that it will have a triple camera setup at the back. This is not new in the smartphone space but will be a first…

Even though not many people have seen or used Goole Go, it is a well-known application for those who use Android Go devices. Google Go is a trimmed down version of the Google app that you get pre-installed on any Android phone. Google Go is pre-installed on Android Go devices, all of which are made for the low-end market segment. If you peep at the Google Go download numbers on the Google Play Store, you will notice that it has crossed the 100 million downloads mark. This is significant and shows the progress of Android Go as this app comes…

Huawei’s latest smartphone, the Y9 Prime 2019 is up on pre-order in Kenya through e-commerce platform, Jumia. You can get this phone for Ksh 25,000 and those who pre-order it get a free Bluetooth headphone. The Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 is not to be confused with the Y9 2019 from last year, this new one is the Prime version. The one unique feature of the Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 is the pop-up selfie camera. This is not the only smartphone with a pop-up selfie, there is also the OPPO F11 Pro that is available for a much higher price of…

Safaricom has today announced the availability of VoLTE (Voice Over LTE) through its network. It becomes the second telco in the country to roll this out after JTL with its Faiba4G product. As long as you have a 4G SIM card and a 4G smartphone that supports VoLTE, you are good to go. Not all smartphones support VoLTE but a good number of them from Nokia, Huawei, Tecno, Samsung e.t.c do. If you meet these requirements, enable VoLTE on your device under settings to get started. Some phones have this option enabled but for others you will have to do…

Every year, financial institutions lose millions of shillings due to fraud. Most of these institutions do not publicly report many of these cases but industry insiders know it is happening and will continue happening for years to come. To address this, Safaricom has today unveiled a new fraud intelligence solution made for financial institutions. Safaricom says banks, insurance firms and micro-finance institutions can use this tooL to reduce fraud incidences targeting their customers. This will be possible as this tool will help determine the authenticity of a financial transaction. “Through the years, we have developed in-house capabilities that have helped…

Telegram is updating its platform to make it easier for individuals to add people to their contact list. The latest update brings version 5.80 of Telegram for Android and iOS. With the update, we get several useful features that you may appreciate. The first major update makes it easier to add people to your contact list by using the People Nearby feature. As the name suggests, you can use this to add people near you and this is a more simplified way to go about that than what was available before. For it to work, both parties have to be…