Author: Kaluka wanjala

HMD promised us that all the new Nokia smartphones will be getting Android Oreo update before the end of the year. The company also said that these will be among the first Android smartphones to get the update when it is available. HMD is able to promise this because these phones come with near stock Android. Given that Android Oreo is already out, HMD has been hard at work finalizing the update before it pushes it out to its devices. HMD has actually released the first beta version of Android Oreo for the Nokia 8. HMD has launched a new…

Samsung is currently working on Android Oreo update for some of its devices. This update will get to select Samsung devices in the end but it will take time. According to Samsung Turkey, the update will start rolling out in early 2018. No exact date or month has been given but my guess is that we will see the update get to the Galaxy Note 8 and the S8 family before the Galaxy S9 is unveiled. Keep in mind that information about Android Oreo has so far been shared by Samsung Turkey. It published that on a blog post and…

Vivo is a smartphone brand not many people in Kenya know about. Vivo is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer that was founded in 2009 and has focused on India and South East Asia markets. It has some notable device on the market but given the fact that it has never focused on this part of the world, we haven’t heard so much about its devices. Vivo is owned by the same company that own OPPO, the smartphone manufacturer that has been aggressively marketing its latest smartphones, the A71 and the F3. BBK Electronics is the company that owns Vivo and OPPO…

Tecno’s latest flagship smartphone, the Phantom 8 has finally been unveiled. The company unveiled the device yesterday at an event in Dubai. The Tecno Phantom 8 takes over from the Phantom 6 and 6 Plus that we saw last year. As you have probably figured out, the company has skipped the number ‘7’ to go straight with the ‘8’ probably to align itself with some of the other manufacturers such as Samsung with the Galaxy S8 and Note 8 and Apple with the iPhone 8. If you thought the 8 in the name means the Phantom 8 is coming with…

HMD Global has added another smartphone to its 2017 lineup. The new smartphone is the Nokia 7 that was unveiled in China and is the device sitting between the current flagship, the Nokia 8 and the Nokia 6. The Nokia 7 is the first smartphone from the company to come with a glass body. It has Corning Gorilla Glass finish on both the front and the back. The chassis on the other hand is made using 7000-series aluminium. We have been seeing other smartphone manufacturers embracing the glass on the front and back design and HMD does not want to…

Xiaomi has undoubtedly curved a niche for itself in the competitive smartphone market. The success the company has had is something most other smartphone manufacturers can only dream about. The company has even bigger targets this year as it plans to ship 90 million smartphones by the end of the year. Last year, Xiaomi shipped 58 million smartphones so 90 million is almost double that. The company announced that it shipped over 10 million smartphones last month (September) so getting to 98 million isn’t far-fetched. This will be higher than the company’s best year (2015) when it shipped over 70…

The latest public available version of Google’s mobile OS is Android 8.0 Oreo which was released to the public not so long ago. manufacturers are yet to push the update to their devices and so far only those who have it are those who own the most recent Nexus devices and the Pixel smartphones. Even with that said, most of the top smartphone manufacturers have promised that they will update their devices by the end of the year. For Google, having the latest update on its Nexus and Pixel devices is definitely a plus. The company has promised to make…

WhatsApp is finally adding Live location sharing to its Android and iOS apps. With this feature, users will be able to share the location with their contacts in real time. This is helpful if you want your friends and/or family members to know where you are especially at night or when you just want them to know where you are at a specific time like when you are meeting someone for the first time. WhatsApp is calling this feature Live Location and users can get in within a chat right under the ‘Location’ option. To use it, open a chat…

OnePlus was one of the first companies that promised that it will be updating some of its existing devices with Android Oreo before the end of the year. The company was not very specific about the dates as to when this was going to happen and all we had to do is sit around and wait for that to happen. OnePlus is hard a work finalizing the Oreo update to be available for download very soon. The company has just pushed out the first beta versions of its Android Oreo build for the OnePlus 3 and 3T. This is good…

Yesterday, Huawei announced its 2017 flagship phablets, the Huawei Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro and the Mate 10 Porsche Design. All these smartphones comes with EMUI 8.0, the company s Custom overlay that is based on Android 8.0 Oreo. The three devices announced yesterday are the first ones from the company to come with Android Oreo pre-installed. With that, Huawei took the opportunity to assure its customers that the update was coming to some of its other devices. The company said that EMUI 8.0 will be rolling out to the Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro, P10 and the P10 Plus.…