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Samsung Galaxy S III TV commercial [plus a Beckham Teaser]

Martin Gicheru — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:58:34 +0000

Samsung galaxy S III, launched on the 3rd of this month, will be in the hands of consumers before the month ends, precisely the 29th of May for UK preorder customers, and the next day for the other masses. This phone that has another record of the most preorders at 9 million will be available in Russia on June 6th, again for preorders. I have also gotten wind of info that it’s available for pre-order in India. Sad that we dont have that Pre-order vocabulary in this part of the globe. But not to worry, we will have it early, trends have been we get Samsung devices also early, judging by Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note where we got them before the US and Canada. That’s some hope right there.

Now just in-case you have not been convinced of why there is so much buzz around this super-phone made for Homo-Sapiens, here is the TV commercial to have you going about the features. I actually like it and the way you can get to understand what the device can do to you. Mostly that part where the device sleeps as soon as you doze off in bed in case you were watching a movie.

What do you think, worth the hype?

And I just stumbled upon this David Beckham Samsung Galaxy Note teaser for David Beckham, who will have something with Samsung on the 22nd of May, that’s next week. But its related to the coming Olympics where Samsung will have a huge presence with their new devices, mostly the Galaxy S III.

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AccessKenya Deploys New Email Authentication System to bolster Internet Security

Martin Gicheru — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:44:49 +0000

AccessKenya Group has announced deployment of a new email authentication system aimed at securing client emails as well as enabling them (clients) use the service while abroad (roaming). The system, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Authentication (SMTP AUTH), is touted as the most secure authentication system and the company says it’s a necessary deployment in the wake increased internet security concerns worldwide.

“Internet security remains of paramount importance and for us as the market leader in Internet Services, protecting our customers using practical solutions remains our core business,” said AccessKenya Managing Director Mr. Kris Senanu.“Email hacking and phishing are a global problem and the deployment of this technology protects our clients and other users on our network,” Mr. Senanu added.

Increased cyber attacks and hacking are ‘a real threat’ to national security and therefore service providers have the responsibility of protecting clients as well as collaborating with authorities to curb the menace, which has been on the rise since the arrival of the undersea fiber optic cable.

AccessKenya Systems Engineer Mr. Sam Oduor said the SMTP AUTH system guarantees email security thence enabling clients to safeguard their information on through the AccessKenya network.

“Communication on this authentication system comes through a secure socket layer. This improves customer privacy since conversations cannot be intercepted,” said Mr. Oduor. Clients using this service on through the AccessKenya network will be provided with unique and secure username and passwords with which they will access servers using this authentication system. According to Mr. Oduor, the service also allows clients to send emails on through AccessKenya

network while abroad. “This is primarily targeted at customers who are not using AccessKenya network both locally

abroad,”

The deployment will also see the company save costs on overheads associated with support services for traveling clients.

The authentication comes a few months after the company adopted the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) with a view of enhancing security on the network. Kenya has in the recent months experienced a myriad of cyber attacks with over 100 government websites hacked.

Experts have blamed poor internet standards for the rampant hacking incidents.

Img Credits: fulcrumtech.net

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One month offer: Free Unlimited data for University students from Orange Kenya

Martin Gicheru — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:38:35 +0000

Starting today Orange has introduced a one month long offer for free unlimited data access for University and College students. This will be achieved via the Orange internet everywhere modem for new purchases. Orange will be touring various Universities and campuses in the next 30 days to create awareness of the offer and engage students.

The 3G Campus Offer also seeks to increase the adoption and use of Orange data services through the firm’s high speed 3G modems, as institutions of higher learning re-open for another semester this month. Students will be able to purchase these modems and data packages in the promotional caravans. For those who will miss out on it they can purchase a max of two modems per students as long as they present a valid student ID.

“Students can now enjoy reliable and affordable data bundles as well as fast speeds from Orange, as we seek to bring these much needed services to them, conscious of the value they will get as they head back to campus,” Orange Kenya CEO, Mickael Ghossein, said, adding that internet penetration among the youth is set to spur the uptake of e-learning as well as other ICT learning related tools.

For a student to qualify for the month-long offer they will need to purchase one month’s unlimited bundle which will then enable them get the first month free. Orange unlimited bundles are currently Kshs 39 daily, Kshs 249 weekly and Kshs 990 monthly for mobile handset access and Kshs 990 weekly, Kshs 2990 monthly on the Orange modem which costs Kshs. 1999.

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Want to invite wedding guests online on a social site? Try Weduary

Martin Gicheru — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:50:40 +0000

The web is making things easier and easier, annd you dont have to create a mobile app to make an impact on the webs. Weduary did that in the world of weddings by recently launching a web app that allows a couple to create a custom web page, complete with customisations and invite their guests into the social-network-like site. Joining the site is via Facebook, so it will fetch your user information and as a guest you can tell which of your friends are invited. The information the site provides is date, time, location, hotel info and couple’s registry. Users get their own profile
It gets even juicier since here is a flirt section where lone guests can see the other singles attending the wedding. And you can flirrrrt all the way. See below the website launch video. So who is doing a wedding?

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And the fight for entry level Android devices has gone bare knuckles

Martin Gicheru — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:08:11 +0000

Entry level Android device of the times title has always gone to the Huawei Ideos U8150 which made the smartphone numbers skyrocket in Kenya with over 200,000 pieces sold in the Kenyan market. Others were buying them from the Kenyan market for use in other countries due to the subsidized status of the phones. Close nearby was the Samsung Galaxy mini which offered an upgrade option to the Ideos user at a difference of Kes. 5000 bob(Ideos was selling at Kes 8000 or $10 while Galaxy mini was selling at Kes 13,000, both at a subsidized price by mobile service providers). There are other devices competing for this market that doesnt want to stick with feature phones but have a meager budget for a phone.

In comes Samsung Galaxy pocket, a budget smartphone with almost premium features on a price point of Kes 10,000 at Safaricom shops. There is something I can foretell, yes, quote me on being a prophet, but these devices will sell out FAST! Just like the Galaxy Y pro Duos is.

Take a moment to peruse through the phone specs:

Network	HSDPA 3.6UMTS 900/2100 EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900
Processor	832MHz Processor
Display	2.8” QVGA(240×320) TN LCD
OS	Android 2.3(Gingerbread)
Camera	Main(Rear): 2 Megapixel Fixed Focus Camera
Video	Video: MPEG4, H.263, H.264 Playback: WVGA@30fps Recording: QVGA@15pfs
Audio	Codec: MP3, OGG, AAC, AAC＋, eAAC＋, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WAV, MID, IMY 3.5mm Ear Jack , Stereo FM Radio with RDS
Value-added Features	Samsung TouchWiz UX
	Samsung Apps
	Samsung Kies
	Social Hub -Integrated Messaging(Email, SNS), Contacts, Calendar Sync
	Samsung ChatON mobile communication service (Downloadable via Samsung Apps)
	Google™ Mobile Services - Android Market™, Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Maps™, Syncing with Google Calendar™, Google Search, Google ＋
	A-GPS
Connectivity	Bluetooth® technology v 3.0 USB 2.0 Wi-Fi b/g/n
Sensor	Accelerometer, Digital Compass
Memory	3GB User memory microSD (up to 32GB)
Size	103.7 x 57.5 x 12 mm, 97g
Battery	Standard battery, Li-ion 1,200 mAh

With this you get Samsung’s trusted brand with a phone which offers better battery life(800htalktime), better processor(832Mhz), more memory(3GB), Capacitive multi-touch and a better OS(Android 2.3 Gingerbread) albeit on a similar screen size as the Ideos, on a price point of 10,000 bob. The other device that would offer similar specs is the LG L3 who’se price point is abit higher. Samsung Galaxy pocket is a small, light droid at just 2.8″ and 97 grams and the fact that it will give budget conscious consumers a taste of Android 2.3(most of previous entry level devices run Android 2.2 Froyo). This makes it at a very unique position to capture the mass market, add the fact that its selling subsidized by Safaricom, which has availability in major towns and is also the largest mobile service provider in the country by far. Even with the impending introduction of a new model Huawei device by Safaricom. It always pays to be there first. Couple that with the yet to be launched Safaricom Online shop that will be available in three Kenyan Cities very soon and you have a winner there.

What’s your take?

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Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 added to Nokia’s dual sim portfolio

Martin Gicheru — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:51:30 +0000

Nokia is still connecting the next billion, with the introduction of two other Series 40 devices, the Nokia 110 and Nokia 112, both dual sim phones. These two devices who’se selling point is the good battery life and data compression promise to appeal to young, urban consumers with a need for fast data and affordability on the same breath. They have direct access to Facebook and Twitter directly on the homescreen. They also come bundled with an offer from EA Games for freebies worth EUR 75, these are upto 40 games, some of them being Bejeweled, Tetris, Bejeweled, Need for Speed The Run, Monopoly Here &Now and Sim City Deluxe. These Games are downloadable by clicking on the Games Gift EA icon placed on the homescreen which is a link to the downloads in Nokia Store. Having clicked that you have 60 days to download them (you know there is no backing up apps on Nokia Store).

Nokia 110 Specifications:

Data: GPRS?EDGE
OS: Series 40
Dimensions” 110 x 46 x 14.8mm
Weight: 80g
Screen: 1.8″ TFT Display (128 x 160 pix)
Memory: 10MB user memory with micsoSD support of upto 32GB
2.0mm Charger, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm jack
1020mAh Battery
Standby upto 26.5 days
Talktime upto 10.5 hours
Colours: Black, Magenta, Lime Green and Cyan
Availability: India, China, Indonesia and Nigeria

Nokia 112 Specifications:

Data: GPRS?EDGE
OS: Series 40
Dimensions” 110.4 x 46.9 x 15.4mm
Weight: 85.5g
Screen: 1.8″ TFT Display (128 x 160 pix)
Memory: 16MB user memory with micsoSD support of upto 32GB
2.0mm Charger, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm jack
Visual User Guide
1400mAh Battery
Standby upto 35 days
Talktime upto 14 hours
Colours: Dark Grey, White, Red and Cyan(availability is market based)
Availability: India, China, Indonesia and Nigeria

There will be single sim versions of these two, the Nokia 111 and Nokia 113 coming later, with the 113 only going to be available for Europe and Eurasia only. Price points for the Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 will be EUR 35(Approx: Kes 3800) and Eur 38(Approx: Kes 4100) respectively, and availability is in third quarter.

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Samsung Omnia M (GT-I8350), another windows phone by Samsung

Martin Gicheru — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:50:21 +0000

Samsung Omnia M will be the next Windows phone from Samsung selling, starting with Europe. Other regions get it soon thereafter. The Omnia is model number GT-I8350 and will rock a 4 inch SuperAMOLED display and a 1GHz processor. Samsung Omnia M is targeted to users who like social networking and multitasking and has optimizations for that. The outward appearance is a smooth edge, contoured casing to ensure comfort when holding the phone.

Other specs are:

Windows 7.5 mango
5Mp rear camera, Autofocus with Flash, VGA front camera for video call
Video recording VGA @30fps WVGA @30fps
Samsung ChatON
People Hub
Photo Share
Samsung Allshare
Windows Live SkyDrive with ~~25GB~~ 7GB free storage
XBox Live
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Bluetooth 2.1
A-GPS
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Proximity Sensor
4GB User Memory=384Mb (RAM)
Dimensions of 121 x 64 x 10.5mm and weight of 119g
Battery of 1500mAh Li-ion

So there you have it, Samsung AllShare allows one to share media or games direct with your TV, laptop, camera and mobile phone either wirelessly or via cable. Music Hub has Smart DJ which automatically generates a playlist to suit your mood. Windows phone device makers have been striving to make most of the features an ordinary smartphone user would require out of the box, to cover the hole left by lack of apps on windows platform. This has made most windows phone users feel their device as sufficient without any addons.

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Samsung answers #letsqwerty with a 3G feature phone for 6900 bob

Martin Gicheru — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:41:24 +0000

Its cut-throat out there! You have to agree with me. Samsung, from ousting Nokia from their 14 year throne as King of mobile device shipments globally, to making Nokia’s Series 40 phones look like childplay, is not joking on this front. Samsung also went ahead in becoming smartphone shipments lead for first quarter, a position attributed mostly to the much loved Samsung Galaxy S II. So after stealing the lead in the smartphone sector from Apple, total device shipments, you would think that Samsung would assume the feature phone market and let Nokia try regaining numbers from that end, you are wrong. Even thought there is competition still from Chinese device manufacturers with the numerous dual sim phones.

Samsung launched the Samsung Ch@t range, that gave dual-sim, dual standby capabilities, and added chatting features only previously available on smartphones. These were to tackle the Chinese dual-sim market, the grey market. Nokia on the other hand have the Asha phones which are Series 40 devices, with a promise to deliver a semi-smartphone experience. Well, there is progress there. But would they fit in where the average young internet user had already tasted the ideos? Thats where the likes of Galaxy mini, LG L3, Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y pro duos, fit in THE UPGRADE! The last two being dual sim android devices with seriously good specs for the price point.

It doesnt end there. Nokia has an ongoing campaign called Lets QWERTY, on TV, billboards and other media. The campaign is aimed at engaging the youth, convincing them that its cool to don a Series 40 Nokia phone for its qwerty. Not bad. In comes Samsung Qool S5270K (Samsung Ch@t 527), a feature phone with 3G at a HSDPA of 7.2Mbps, qwerty, Wi-Fi, optical trackpad among other features, at a price point of Kshs 6899. And a “FAST.COOL.QWERTY.’ tag. Then in a few weeks Samsung will launch a Kshs. 10,000 priced Android powered Samsung Galaxy Pocket.

What do you think, is there a threat to the #letsqwerty business proposition in the mass market? Or am I assuming my things?

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Roll-out for Android Ice Cream Sandwich for Galaxy Note with Premium Suite begins

Martin Gicheru — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:56:06 +0000

The wait is finally over for Samsung Galaxy Note users waiting to receive Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. A Nokia blogger, Devin Balentina from the Netherlands apparently has already recieved the download notification on his Galaxy Note and successfully downloaded the 318MB Android 4.0.3 with a build date of May 4. Ice cream Sandwich upgrade. The upgrade promised a new version of Samsung’s TouchWiz, S Note app and S Memo widget. These were the premium apps promised in an upgrade to Samsung Galaxy Note that was going to be made available in second quarter to Galaxy Note users.

The download apparently works over the air (OTA) via regular data plan or via Wi-Fi. There is also an option to download the file via KIES. SO Atleast I can confirm that users in Netherlands are getting it, in Germany via KIES. Devin went ahead to screenshoot the S Note app as confirmation of the download and installation success.

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Orange launches Public sector VPN service

Martin Gicheru — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:22:29 +0000

Xavier Villegas, Chief Business Market Officer, Orange Kenya

Orange Business VPN service was launched in the year 2010 and has served a large number of clientelle with an efficient, reliable, affordable and fast communication platform whose ultimate goal is to enhance service delivery. Needs and requirements of citizens are evolving, hence making the need for technological requirements of government agencies and parastatals are also growing. These dynamics are the ones that prompted Orange to review their VPN and come up with Orange Business VPN which adds security, flexibility in deployment, 24/7 support and backup. County governments implementation has brought the need to implement this service country-wide to provide a steady, cost-efficient and reliable communication service.

Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) roll-out became necessary as a result of the move of the country to adopt e-commerce as the preferred means of business transactions and hence the need for efficient communication infrastructure.

The Internet Value proposition for the Public Sector Virtual Private network is:

Savings on Cost: to optimise on costs n budget by combining internet and VPN, reducing access, bandwidth, operational and firewall expenses
Security: the Orange VPN is a standard to complex customer security requirements, additional value-added application and security service.
Internet Access: it provides secure access through Public Sector VPN offer-available all over the country.
Control: offers internet traffic that can be managed by Orange, the ISP.
Simplicity: it provides simplicity, with a unique service offering at two levels, Telkom or customer managed.

The target clientelle is public sector and government agencies with various ICT requirements, mostly those serving regional offices like those that originated from the formation of county government.

Organisations already signed up with the solution include Equity and Barclays Bank and NSSF among others.

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Flipboard comes to android in an unorthodox way [UPDATED]

Martin Gicheru — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:41:35 +0000

Flipboard has been a reserve for the fanboys, they know themselves. The trend of late has been to get those hero apps from iOS to Android, started with Instagram. During the launch of Samsung Galaxy S III a week ago there was an announcement that flipboard is coming over, but be exclusive for Galaxy S III for some time before finally coming to the rest of the droids.

Well, some geeky German developer named Valcho has made this easy for us by extracting the .APK off the one installed in the Samsung Galaxy S III using Airdroid. And that’s the short story of how we are nolonger going to wait for flipboard. He posted it on XDA Forums and provided a QR code link to make it easy to get the link on phone. I have since installed it on my Samsung Galaxy S II and it works fine. Will install it on smaller screen devices like the Galaxy Y duos and the Galaxy Y pro duos which is a 2.6 inch screen and see how this pans out.

Till then, here is the download link for those willing to get it on their droids.

[UPDATED] with devices where the app is confirmed to be working.

The .apk is working perfectly on xperia arc S according to a comment here, works perfectly on the Galaxy Note N7000, the Nexus one too but crashes on the Xperia Ray. It works on Galaxy Y Pro Duos but only on landscape mode, see image below. Tell us in the comments if it works on yours.

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Video walkthrough of Tizen OS on a developer device

Martin Gicheru — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:59:54 +0000

Tizen conference is going on in San Francisco, duration is between 7th to 9th of May, and since Tizen version 1.0 was released last week, developers have something to play with and test their apps on. The developers had a chance to put their hands on developer devices as and get trained on how to develop HTML 5 apps for Tizen devices. And that’s where Vaibhav Sharma had the chance to get a developer device and do a quick video demo of the UI. The device id a plain looking slab, obviously not much effort was put to make the device look nice as this is in no way what the final design will look like.

But from this we can pick up a few details of what to expect from the device once its out and selling. This is a high end device, assumed from the specs, the large 4″+ HD screen, its said to run on an ARM chip based1.2GHz dual-core processor. Something worthy of note is the huge role Samsung has played in making it bear the trademark TouchWiz UI, just like many Android, Bada and some feature phones look like. Complete with the pull-down menu that has the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Vibrate and rotate icons at the top. The device is also said to have push notifications and several apps preinstalled, like Facebook, Twitter and Google, so this should be easy to move in once its ready to sell.
See the video below:

There is one outstanding home menu that can be pressed and held to reveal the task manager. Samsung icons again are predominant, there are also multiple homescreens. The HTML5 browser is said to beat anything that is currently selling in the market. It would obviously not make much sense to launch a platform that doesnt have much edge to the existing ones, so if we can get much if this Linux and Meego based OS having greater customisations the better for adoption.

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