During my college days, I managed to make one friend who, as he would humorously put it, grew up in a struggling family and situation. The one thing that kept him going and yearning for a better life was...
We've been rambling on and on about music streaming services. Apple Music. Spotify. MixRadio. Except Apple's Music which will be coming to over 100 countries when it is eventually live later in the month, the other two and...
When people think of watching videos online, they tend to login to gravitate towards one site: YouTube. YouTube is Google's video sharing website and is currently the number one video sharing website. According to statistics, it has over 1 billion...
Mobile banking apps are the new norm in the Kenyan market now because people want to keep track of their money and transactions in real-time. One of the apps that pioneered the boom and transition of banking services to...
You can get a smartphone from basically any price bracket. Cheaper phones usually have basic specs and expensive phones have relatively better specifications. However, hanks to the law of diminishing returns, the value of what you're paying for decreases...
This belies an underlying assumption that without the competition of foreign-owned, local ICT firms, locally owned ICT firms would proliferate and flourish.
Huawei unveiled the Y9 Prime 2019 recently and it is a really good phone for the price. However, you might have known from reading our articles or peeked at the store that they also have the Y9 2019. The question would then be:...
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to work from home, which means they have to use video chat to collaborate with their workmates. Setting aside the need for Wi-Fi in your house or the type of video conferencing software to...
Last week, Apple announced the long rumored iPhone SE 2ND Generation and it was quite the surprise. This was a sequel to the much loved iPhone SE from 2016 which was geared for those Ios users that love small phones....
This past week Justice Mary Kasango delivered a  Copyright Infringement decision on a case regarding Safaricom’s Okoa Jahazi product. The case is Christopher N. Omare and Michael Otachi t/a Omare and Partners v Safaricom Limited available on Kenya Law Reports online. https://twitter.com/JuneOkal/status/1260956902692962305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1260956902692962305&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechweez.com%2F%3Fp%3D98681 This...
Accessing services provided by the government has become the norm rather than the exception. In the last few years, we have seen the Kenyan government move some of the services it renders to its citizens online. This has made...
It's a rush to sell at the retail stores and most small smartphone brands invest only at the retail stores focusing on converting walk-in customers.
In about a month, this new law will be in place and may change how you deal with your customers’ data or how you use your social media platforms. If you’ve noticed, you probably have several emails from your...
vivo recently entered the Kenyan market and already have some of their smartphones on shelves in their retail stores. Their Y series and V series are available locally but the focus of this article is on the potential that...
Here are the differences between Twitter Lite and Twitter for Android
We are living in strange times. Apple does not have the most expensive phone on the mass market. That honour goes to the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra which starts at $1,400 and can go as high as $1600! That is...
I am a customer of Safaricom’s ever-growing Home Fibre product, which has, until to date, been hugely reliable. The service is insanely popular among its customers in Nairobi and Central Kenya for one key reason: reliability. Lately, however, the...
It is not a secret that your phone no longer feels as fast as it used to when you first got your hands on it, well, unless you just bought one. But everything in life experiences wears and tear...
If you thought the price wars between Kenyan telcos was over, you thought wrong. After Airtel announced their "Tubonge Bundles" targetted at offering cheap calls to its subscribers, Telkom Kenya (Orange) announced their "Amkia MBundle" which offers subscribers of...
I've said before that the iPhone SE 2020 is a big problem to Android smartphone manufacturers. However, not all is lost since they have time to catch up and they can do that easily if they wanted to. Samsung is...
Here are a few parties who I believe are big winners from the Kenya ICT policy 2016.
Kenya as a country has a big problem. I'm not talking about the kind of political or economic problems you're thinking of. When it comes to getting the devices and gadgets we truly desire, the furthest we can do...
  The changing landscape of the global economy has inadvertently changed the traditional business organization. Now more than ever, business organizations are inter networked and knowledge driven, with businesses grappling on how to master this shift. This dynamism is especially...
A couple of weeks ago, telco Safaricom released an overdraft facility referred to as Fuliza. Owing to the carrier’s vast reach and robust marketing power, the product has been adopted by many (we do not have the number yet,...
With the ever-growing technology day by day, we have seen various advanced email client applications. Lotus Notes and MS Outlook are two most advanced and widely used email platforms across various organizations today. Lotus Notes is a product from...
All hail the dark mode. I look at screens all the time from browsing the web, social media and video-centric platforms both on my laptop and on my smartphone. This goes on from the moment I wake up till...
A couple of days ago, it emerged that many loan apps were running their trade normally, with their tools live in Google Play Store many months after Alphabet detailed a set of regulations for financial apps. The rules tasked...
As early as 2012, hardly any major smartphone manufacturer had a phone with a fingerprint scanner, save for the Motorola Atrix. The fingerprint scanner was a great addition to the smartphone arsenal since it provided another layer of security...
Instagram has become a popular platform for sharing photos, videos, stories and had had very useful features it has copied from rival social media apps such as Stories from Snapchat. There are more features the app could have or...
The debate on whether telcos should really expire data bundles or not has been going on for a while now, especially in Africa, where it is clear that data bundles have become a pain-point for most mobile internet users....
Safaricom’s utility app mySafaricom is an excellent tool when it works. The app was launched more than two years and over time, it has been imparted with key additions to make it the go-to utility for folks that do...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster to many people, communities and businesses, and countries as a whole. Kenya, in particular, has been hit, and in an effort to sustain itself, some organizations have been forced to let some...
Before the smartphone age, people bought tickets to concerts, met their friends and came back later with memories that were firmly engrained in their minds. Fast forward to the current age we are living in, concerts have a different look....
Gmail has gotten better especially with new additional features. Here are some tweaks you can play around with to get that minimalist look and make your inbox more efficient. To achieve that simple view, you’ll have to remove most of...
If there's anything the last few weeks have shown us here at Techweez then it is that budget smartphones are the kings of the Kenyan mobile market. We have every brand imaginable angling for a share of the pie....

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