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The days of Nokia, Bosch, Sendo, Motorola and RIM domination of the smartphone market are far long gone. The smartphone market is wide open and Chinese brands are a force to reckon with. In no time, Chinese OEMs have risen from nowhere to tussle it out with the world’s most powerful smartphone brands. OALE launched on Jumia Uganda mobile recently offering very affordable devices. The company that was founded in Shenzhen offers very affordable devices, below UGX 500,000....

Since Safaricom is the biggest telco in the country, other players like Airtel and Telkom have found it difficult to compete in a market where mobile money is synonymous with M-PESA and as such, have been pushing for interoperability between their services, T-Kash and Airtel Money, and the market leader. Today, you can send and receive money across these platforms with relative ease and at relatively similar transaction charges. Read More:...

Let’s get started. Related Article: Google I/O Event: Here’s Everything Google Announced A New UI This is the first major UI revamp Android has had in a long time – the most recent UI revamp happened in 2014 with the Android Lollipop. This new revamp is called ‘Material You‘. Quick Settings And Notification Redesign ‘Material You’ comes with a totally redesigned notification shade and quick settings tiles. The notifications on the Android 12 now have rounded corners and features a more prominent app icon, an option to snooze for each app notification....

On the other hand, AV1 is an acronym for AOMedia Video 1 from Alliance for Open Media which is a conglomeration made up of the largest tech giants there is. In this post, we intend to highlight the main differences between AV1 and HEVC codecs. The superior codec should trump the other in terms of compression efficiency (aka file sizes), compatibility, quality, and computational performance. Also Read: What is High Efficiency Video Coding(HEVC)...

So I requested for the information that I needed to open my account from my in-house finance operations execution only to be informed that the agent would be coming to meet me to expedite the process since I was considered a VIP. Now, please note that I drive an old model Raum and live in a village called Buwate so I in no way consider myself a VIP. Below is the exchange that took place when he arrived at my location with an elaborate folio in hand....

There are quite a number of these distros out there but knowing one that can suit your needs is key. We shall discuss generally the top five distros in this article that have proven to be stable, robust, or most reviewed and used in 2022. Please Note: This is an opinionated article because I have used 3 among these distros. I am currently running Kali Linux under WSL and native Ubuntu 20 LTS....

Despite their similarities, however, both debit and credit cards are different in terms of spending/withdrawal behavior, use cases, and purposes. Do you get confused when you hear debit and credit cards mentioned in the bank, retails stores or anywhere at all? I’m pretty sure you’re not alone. You should continue reading to find out the differences between both cards. Debit card As mentioned earlier, a debit card looks exactly like a credit card....

#1. Great business models to inspire your startup //github #2. Uganda’s Open Source friendly Policies and Sleeping FOSS Community //James Wire #3. The Battle For The Next Billion – Africa’s Biggest Mobile Platforms In One Map //Techcabal #4. Does Being Online Make Media Digital? //iAfrikan #5. Forget Lumia, Nokia’s non-smartphone business has collapsed //memeburn #6. Mistakes You Should Never Make //Seth Bannon #7. A Lot of Top Journalists Don’t Look at Traffic Numbers....

A month ago the company announced support for DStv now app on Samsung, Apple and Android TV platforms. Now they are extending that even further to LG smart TVs, specifically most 2017 and 2018 models running webOS 3.5 and 4.0. The DStv Now app is available in the respective Smart TV App stores. How to install new DStv Now app for LG smart TVs In addition to LG smart TVs, DStv app is also available on;...

DStv Premium subscribers will have to part with UGX 8,000 more (3.5% increase) while Compact Plus will cost UGX 6,000 more (4.4% increase). DStv Compact, Dstv Access and Dstv Family rates have gone up 5.6%, (UGX 5,000), 5.7% (UGX 2,000) and 5.8% (UGX 3,000) respectively. It’s no big secret that since Netflix made inroads in Africa, DStv has been struggling to retain viewership. Of recent, quite possibly due to the outbreak of the Corona virus, Pay TV service providers and media streaming service providers alike have been hard pressed to find fresh new content for their subscribers....

Multichoice currently has two kinds of decoders; the cheaper and smaller DSTV HD Zapper decoder and the feature-rich DSTV HD PVR Explora decoder that’s limited to Premium package customers. DSTV has over the years made major and minor upgrades to its decoders. The DSTV Zapper decoder is now fully HD supporting 720p and 1080i HD standards. The other major upgrade is that they come with HDMI ports which will soon replace the good old Composite AV or banana pins....

In theory, this feature is intended to render a lost or stolen device unusable by requiring one to enter Google account credentials of the last device user a factory reset in effect making it unappealing for phone thieves. In practice, most often than not, Android users are unaware of Factory Reset Protection until they encounter it for the very first time when they are locked out of their devices either because they forgot their Google password, were gifted the smartphone by a friend, or due to some bug that just let them access their device even after inputting the correct credentials....

Ugandans, living on an average of less than $2/day, make only a small deposit to take home their approximately $200 solar system. Customers then pay off the remaining cost in affordable installments via Mobile Money over 18-24 months until they own the system outright. Fenix’s innovative hardware and software enable the company to lock the solar system if customers fail to make payments. The company receives and processes over 120,000 payments per month, and a total of $5....

Related post: Roku Streaming Stick+ Review Onto the Fire Stick 4K versus the 4K Max, the most noticeable improvements at least in the hardware department is the inclusion of WiFi 6 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax) support and 2GB of RAM. Comparatively, the Fire Stick 4K supports WiFi 5 dual-band on 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wifi networks and 1.5GB of RAM. WiFi 6 is the latest wireless WiFi standard and it offers faster data speed, better congestion, security and power management....

In a bid to stand out of the quickly crowding online publishing sphere, Chimpreports has repackaged its content in a complete redesign. The state of web design in Africa, of recent, has been mostly abysmal. For example the site of Al-Ahram, Egypt’s largest daily newspaper, looks like it was designed in 1996. The same goes for the websites of the leading traditional news publishers, many of them are so 2005....

Perhaps the one and only feature i’ve personally been waiting for, this feature will now enable you to view attachments and save files directly to Google Drive instead of your computer harddrive(though you still can do this) without ever leaving Gmail, making it easy to access them later from whatever device you’re on—computer, phone or tablet. The update will not only make you preview your files with the help of small thumbnails, but also enable you to see the files on full screen without leaving the message itself when you click on one of those previews....

News is: Google Earth is adding the ability to measure distance and areas using a neat feature they’ve called a Measure Tool. The tool’s Chrome client and Android app have been updated with the measure tool to allow users measure distances between two locations and pinpointed areas. It basically lets you get a direct A to B measurement between two points on Earth, or the area or perimeter between multiple pinpoints around a specific space....

Now, Google has quietly brought a dark mode to Google Photos (spotted by XDA-Developers), reportedly landing in version 4.17.0.249919200. However, it’s unclear whether this will be a server-side change on Google’s part or if you’ll need to update to this particular version. For what it’s worth, I updated to this version and didn’t see dark mode. To test if your Android-Pie-equipped phone received the new theme, head to Settings -> Display -> Advanced -> Device theme and turn on the limited dark mode....

The Pixel Tablet is scheduled to be launched to the markets sometime in 2023 to complement the Pixel Watch, Pixel 7, and Pixel 7 Pro. Recall that the last time we saw a first-party tablet from Google was way back in 2015 with the Pixel C. There have been rumors to the effect that there could be a second Pixel Pro Tablet. Even with the most recent official announcement from google, a lot remains unclear about the new device....

“ The move, if it succeeds, would effectively put one of the web’s most highly trafficked sites firmly in Google’s hands.” According to the Verge, the move makes sense for YouTube especially for the fact that Twitch has become a premium Destination for live Video Game Streams wth more than one million unique users broadcasting on its platform every month. Twitch functionality is built into both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game consoles....