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Transsion understands this predicament the market faces and also acknowledges that smartphones are the future. As such, the company has multiple devices to cater to the entry-level segment of the market. The iTel A56 is the company’s latest attempt to dominate the entry level smartphone segment. For its price, this device packs quite a bit. Below is the iTel A56 specsheet. Read More: itel A56 Review: A Huge 4000 mAh Battery and a Few Surprises Some of the halo features that this smartphone boasts of include a Face Unlock feature....

The online payment solution JumiaPay is a first for e­-commerce Jumia and will most certainly be decisive in facilitating online payments across the 23 African countries where it operates, encouraging the progressive change to cashless societies. If the majority of payments performed on Jumia’s platforms is cash on delivery (between 70 to 90%), JumiaPay comes as a major milestone for improving customers’ online experience for the coming months and years, following in the footsteps of Chinese e­-commerce Alibaba and its online payment platform AliPay....

According to an interview with Reuters, Jumia co-founder Sacha Poignonnec said that Jumia Uganda had been relying on its Kenyan sister for most of its goods but it will now have its own. That means a warehouse has been set up on ground and stocked with goods and not just offices since its earlier launch. Undeniably, Rocket Internet’s partnerships with high stake investors such as MTN , Millicom and Sweden’s Kinnevik have leveled ground for it to push as many startups as deemed fit — which is a great advantage it has....

We are listing down for you the Samsung smartphones available in Uganda, their specifications and their prices. Note that these are retail price recommendations, which can change once the product is on market. Galaxy J1 Mini Prime Screen Size: 4.0″ ROM: 8GB RAM: 1GB Camera: 5 MP Price: UGX 290,000 Galaxy J1 Ace Screen Size: 4.3″ ROM: 4 GB RAM: 1GB Camera: 5 MP Price: About UGX 350,000 Galaxy J2 Screen Size: 4....

MTN says the baseline rule is that competitors must create solutions that leverage mobile money to accelerate financial inclusion and digitize payments in a bid to drive MTN MoMo as a universal payment method. Developers must ensure that proposed solutions target consumers, merchants, or businesses and are user-friendly and relevant to use cases beyond payments. Developers will then have about two weeks to develop their ideas with demos/prototypes of their applications....

While the Galaxy S4 has already started arriving on the doorsteps for those who had pre-ordered it, it is still not available for immediate purchase. Those who have already started taking advantage of this smart phone have reported that the Galaxy S4 is a tempting smart phone which boasts amazing features. The Samsung Galaxy S4 features a 4.99-inch full HD Super AMOLED 1,920 x 1080 display with a pixel density of 441ppi while the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 comes with an S-AMOLED capacitive touch screen display of 5....

Not that I am saying that South Africans have no need for mobile money services. They actually do and with enough elbow grease, MTN should have made it work. But no, they just had to copy and paste the square Kenyan model on the roundabout South African regulatory system. Inevitably, it was bound to fail. Mobile money has had a far-reaching impact on the people in Africa straight from the grassroots to the cities....

The new app named E-pass (Electronic pass) is intended to help the Ministry of Health truck and geo-fence the movement of COVID 19 patients under home based care thus reducing the number of non-critical patients that get admitted in hospitals. At the height of the pandemic, many people would be rushed to health centers, even those that were not in critical conditions, a situation that overwhelmed health centers and also stretched the limited resources in hospitals....

I have subscribed to both services for months actively switching between them to compare and contrast what one service has over the other. And I have tried to be as objective as possible. But as we all know, content is a matter of tastes and preferences. Mine can’t speak for everyone. But I have also looked at other more rational comparisons between the two services such as subscription plans, payment methods, supported video formats, features, supported devices, and geographic support....

But how did it get here? What is really going on? That is a hard question. It is kinda like trying to understand the conflict in Yemen but here is the gist of it all. I apologize in advance, I am about to simplify this whole thing down to a fault so I’m going to leave out many bits of the story. Qualcomm vs Apple briefly explained. So, in the past, Apple often used Qualcomm chips in iPhone models....

All this plays out in favor of the consumer as there is no shortage of options for every given metric; feature set, budget, brand preference, and more. Oppo’s siblings, Vivo and Realme are eyeing a piece of the cake in Kenya and we’ve recently seen Vivo further bolster its position with the launch of the Vivo Y20. Not to be left behind, Realme is also introducing two new devices into its Kenyan catalog....

Remix OS is by no means a half-baked work-around to get Android on your PC, say, like BlueStacks which we found to be buggy and RAM intensive. Considering that Remix was built by ex-Googlers should give you an inkling on the level of refinement this Android hybrid has been subjected to before it hit the market. Traditionally owning a PC has meant putting aside hundreds of dollars which is well and good in countries where the average consumer can afford it, but not all people are financially equal and it goes to reason that some people are less equal than others....

Perhaps, this is why Samsung decided to go left-field with the design of its latest earbud, dubbed the Samsung Galaxy Buds Live. This earbud was unveiled at the 2020 Samsung Unpacked event. Here are 5 things you should know about the new Samsung Galaxy Buds Live. 1. Eccentric Design The design of this earbud is really striking and eye-catching. Samsung designed the buds to look like a kidney bean. This, to me, is the most innovative new true wireless earbuds this year....

Android Pie for the Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, and Galaxy Note 9 will be available in January. This is according to Samsung’s Developer Conference keynote which confirmed that indeed, One UI is expected to land next January. Samsung will also have an open beta for One UI starting this month. One UI looks exactly how we expected, i.e it is not widely different from what we saw in Grace UI that we all shamelessly still call TouchWiz....

Running on Andrroid v. 6.0, and a reliable battery of 1500 mAh, the Simi S301 3G smartphone has been announced by Jumia Uganda as part of the exclusive deals to surface on the Mobile Week menu, and it will be costing one not more than UGX 100,000 to acquire it. Whereas we are yet to get further details about it, we can tell that Jumia is up to its initiative of offering Ugandans the best prices during the promotional week....

Microsoft is reportedly testing a new “Screen Sharing” feature that will allow users of Skype on mobile (Android and iOS) share their display with other participants in a video call. Albeit the screen sharing feature has been available for desktop users for years, Skype is bringing it to Android and iOS users. The feature is currently available to beta testers only but will roll out globally in a month or less....

We can see that since Snapchap was launched in 2011, other social network giant such as Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are trying introduce their own features of disappearing stories such as those of Snapchat, starting with with Instagram Stories in 2016 and also recently facebook added a feature on messenger app similar to Snapchat Stories that allow users to share their stories disappearing after 24 hours. This new feature lets Snapchat users interact with the surroundings....

The music streaming giant has been a laggard when it comes to the African market but that might change soon. Spotify is a Freemium service, meaning it has a free, ad-supported plan and a few more plans for individuals, families, and students. Today, the company is adding yet another plan in a bid to further diversify its tariffs and accommodate a rather popular demographic today, couples. Unlike the Spotify Family Plan that supports up to 6 different profiles on the same account, Spotify Duo will support just two....

Judging by the previous launches, we are now very familiar with what the two devices have to offer. The CAMON 12 will continue with the great selfie history set by previous models. However, it promises new tech that will upgrade image quality. Our sources from Kenya and Nigeria informed us that the CAMON 12 is upgraded with AI Max Triple Camera to enable super wide-angle photography, surpassing CAMON series’ DNA of the clear selfie, to let you capture the beauty around you from a broader perspective....

Almost a year later, Tecno has now unveiled the next iteration of the Tecno Spark series, Tecno Spark 9 Pro in Nigeria. And as expected, the new Spark 9 Pro also comes with new updates. First, there’s a new refreshed design (it features the trendy right-angled edge build). The major highlight of this smartphone, however, has to be its selfie camera. In this article, we will be comparing the Tecno Spark 8 and the new Tecno Spark 9 Pro; their specs, features, price, etc....