Author: Kaluka wanjala

Back in April when Tecno officially unveiled the Boom J8 smartphone, it also unveiled its new custom User Interface (UI), HiOS. THE Boom J8 was the first smartphone from the company to come with HiOS out of the box. Having a custom UI is not anything new in the smartphone market, most other manufacturers have had their own custom UIs for years. Samsung has Touchwiz, Huawei has Emotion UI, Xiaomi has MiUI, HTC has Sense UI. There are many other custom UIs on the market and the next one that we will be seeing a lot will be from Infinix.…

The Samsung Galaxy J7 was one of the most popular smartphones of 2015. This phone is known for its superior camera performance especially the front facing camera that will put to shame some high end smartphone out there. If you own the Galaxy J7, you will be happy to know that Samsung has started rolling out the Marshmallow update to your device. The phone launched with Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box and it looks like Samsung is ready to update it to Marshmallow. The update has started rolling out to some users in Russia so we should expect…

When you look at most smartphones on the market, you will notice that most of these devices tend to offer the same thing. There are some manufacturers out there that try their best to differentiate their smartphones from what you can get on the market. This strategy has worked perfectly in most other markets but in Kenya we have not seen many manufacturers trying to be different and we are stuck with devices that share a lot of similarities even though they come from different manufacturers. Wileyfox is one company that plans to bring some changes to the Kenyan smartphone…

Back in February this year, Samsung officially unveiled its 2016 flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. A few months after launching the standard S7 variant, Samsung went ahead to launch the Galaxy S7 edge Injustice Edition Inspired by the Iconic DC Super Hero Batman. If you have been waiting for this variant, you will be happy to know that it is finally coming to Kenya. This is a limited edition device that you can preorder right now till June 24th 2016. Its recommended retail price is Ksh 119,999 so it’s clearly not that cheap and not for everyone.…

If you have used Uber or have interacted with anyone of their partner drivers, you probably know that the company does not accept older cars. Drivers with older cars can never partner with the company. This is all good to the customers as they get newer cars every time they use the app but is bad news for some drivers who are locked out and cannot partner with the company. Other taxi hailing apps out there tend to be more welcoming and they accept older cars. One such app is Mondo Ride that has been operating in Kenya for a…

It is not doubt that the Kenyan smartphone market is not an easy one to crack. Many have tried and some have succeeded while the rest give up along the way. There are a few manufacturers such as Infinix who seem to have understood the market but a few others seem not to get what consumers want. One company that has not had a smooth ride in Kenya is Obi Worldphone. The company was founded in 2014 and a year later, its CEO John Sculley came into the country (Kenya) to officially launch its brand. The company banked on the…

Lenovo has been making some foldable tablets that have been quite popular with consumers. Besides these tablets, the company also has the 2-in-1 laptops that can be used as tablets and can also be transformed to full-featured tablets. One of those is the Lenovo Yoga 710. The Lenovo Yoga 710 is a premium and ultrathin convertible laptop that was officially launched in the country a few weeks ago. This laptop is not that cheap and retails for about Ksh 110,000. With that, you get an 11.6 inch display with a resolution of 1920X1080 pixels, 8GB of RAM, 256GB Solid state…

In 2014, Samsung released two variants of the Galaxy Note 5. One came with a flat display as expected while the other one came with a curved display (the Galaxy Note edge). We were expecting to see both the curved and flat models in 2016 as part of the Galaxy Note 7 family. yes, it will be the Note 7, Samsung has decided to skip 6, this is a story for another day so we will not get into it right now. With the Galaxy Note 7, there might not only be the one with the curved display so we…

LG has today announced the addition of four new smartphones to join its X family. These devices are the LG X mach, X style, X max and X Power. These four devices join the already existing X devices, the X cam and the X screen. According to LG, the X power, X mach, X style and X max have some of the specs you can find on the company’s flagship, G and V series. This shows you that the company is targeting those who wish to have the flagship devices but may not be able to get them for one…

Besides being one of the top smartphone manufacturers out there, Samsung also supplies some smartphone components to other manufacturers. OLED smartphone displays are just some of the components the company supplies to other OEMs and the company is dominating that subsector. According to industry statistics, 91.3 million OLED displays were shipped during the first three months of 2016. This is quite a huge figure and even though there are some displays that went to TV manufacturers, most of them were used on smartphones. Out of the over 91.3 million OLED displays shipped, Samsung Display shipped 86.7 million of those. Samsung…