Author: Kaluka wanjala

Earlier today, OPPO introduced its latest smartphone, the A71, in Kenya. The company partnered with Safaricom to do this and this means that you will find this phone in all Safaricom shops countrywide for Ksh 20,000. OPPO is branding the A71 as a ‘mid-tier 4G device ‘ and it says that it will use it to expand its footprint across the country. This is clearly evident with its partnership with Safaricom. OPPO desperately needs this as its devices haven’t been as well received as those of its competitors and you can argue that price is the reason. For a new…

Apple officially unveiled its latest smartphones, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X two weeks ago. The iPhone X was the star of the show but unfortunately we will have to wait about a month or so before it is available in retail stores. With that said, those who wanted to upgrade to the iPhone 8 or 8 Plus are in luck as the phone is available in retail stores in Kenya. Phone Place Kenya is one of the retailers selling the iPhone 8 for Ksh 96,000. Besides the 64GB iPhone 8, Phone Place Kenya is also…

GOtv will this coming Sunday introduce a new package called GOtv MAX . GOtv MAX will provide families with a broader choice than ever before on GOtv – with four new channels of the hottest local and international programming featuring anything and everything from the series, music and sport to the latest in fashion reality, celebrity and kiddies programming. The GOtv MAX package will become the most economical way to get access to the latest and best content straight from Hollywood and around the world. “Great entertainment has always been a key focus of GOtv – and we are excited…

Earlier this year, HMD Global re-introduced the iconic Nokia 3310 mobile phone to the world. This was one of the company’s new Nokia devices, the other ones are the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and the Nokia 6. The new Nokia 3310 was a nice addition but unfortunately did not have 3G support. In a world where 4G connections are almost everywhere, having a phone that does not support 3G connections isn’t that exciting. HMD knows that having a 2G smartphone isn’t ideal and that is why the company has unveiled a new variant of the phone that supports 3G connections.…

If you are using ShowMax and are a DStv premium subscriber, there is a way to add ShowMax to your DStv subscription for free. ShowMax has over 35 000 series episodes, movies, kids’ shows and documentaries. Adding ShowMax to your DStv subscription is very easy as you will see below, the process has about three steps. 1. To get started, you will need to have an active ShowMax subscription (obviously). If you don’t, sign up for an account at showmax.com. When you sign up, login to your account and choose DStv as your method of payment. 2. You will be…

Over the last couple of years, we have seen an increase in the number of cyber attacks targeting organizations. Just recently, we saw the Petya and WannaCry ransomware attacks that showed us how vulnerable individuals and organizations are to cyber attacks. Not many people are prepared for these and other cyber attacks and may end up losing valuable information and data as a result. You may not see this as a big deal if you have never experienced such an attack but for an organization, losing data can spell doom. To address this, AON yesterday announced its Cyber Enterprise Solution…

Twitter has made a huge change for the first time in eleven years. The company has just increased the character count of tweets from 140 to 280 characters. This is the first time the company is doing so since it debuted its services back in 2006. Twitter says that the change is rolling out to a small group of users but it plans to expand it to everyone very soon. I already have it on my end and almost everyone I know does too. You should have it on your end by now as it started rolling out earlier today,…

Instagram is one of the fastest growing social networking sites out there. The Facebook-owned platform has seen its user base grow so fast compared to others such as Twitter. Instagram is now reporting that it currently has 800 million active users, 100 million more than the number of users it had in April this year. This is impressive for Instagram as it inches closer to 1 billion active monthly users. Not very many apps enjoy such numbers and most that do are owned by Facebook or Google. Besides the active monthly users, Instagram has also seen impressive growth in the…

Nokia re-entered the smartphone market earlier this year through HMD Global. The company has already unveiled the Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6 and just recently, the Nokia 8. These are not expensive devices but they are not the cheapest on the market either. The Nokia 3 is reasonable priced and in Kenya you can get it for as low as Ksh 13,000, quite reasonable if you ask me. If you are interested you can get it here. It looks like HMD Global is ready to update Nokia’s line-up very soon with an affordable device. The device will be the…

If you own the Huawei Mate 9, I have some good news for you. The device may be getting the Oreo update very soon if all goes as planned. The Huawei Mate 9 is the company’s 2016 flagship phablet and I expected it to get updated at some point, I just did not expect us to start talking about that this early. So, what has brought us to the conclusion that this update is coming to the Mate 9? Well, the device running Android 8.0 Oreo has been spotted on benchmarking website Geekbench. With this, we can safely say that…