Here’s a profound fact about all Tecno phones — they are all Dual-SIM! All of them. Be it a low end device like the Tecno T630 or high-end hexa-core or octa-core smartphones like the Tecno R7 and the recently announced Tecno Z , Tecno has consistently made all their devices to have Dual-SIM support. Before I try to explain why the chines manufacturer has strategically chosen this path, you need to know one thing unique about the phone vendor that other brands with African presence don’t have....

A few days ago Lenovo announced that they were ditching their in-house UI for their Android phones, Vibe UI for a stock version of Android for their subsequent products. The first phone do ship with stock Android from Lenovo is the Lenovo K8 Note. Lenovo has had some genuine traction in the Ugandan and Kenyan market as e-commerce sites like Jumia and Avechi have been stocking them. They also have a number of care and service centers around that works to improve customer experience....

Gone are the days when you had to travel distances to a bank to do transactions. Today, the internet has simplified life with the introduction of online banking. Here, financial transactions are conducted over the internet through a Bank’s secure website. Online banking is almost similar to traditional banking but it is delivered via the internet using a device that can access the internet. These may be smartphones, laptops, tablets among others....

Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives. We do everything on them, we keep in touch with family, friends and significant others, we take photos with them, we watch cat videos, we catch up with news.. everything. It is also no secret that smartphones have for the past few years hit a plateau phase. They are all sleek, slim rectangular blocks with big beautiful displays, pretty decent performance, great cameras and for the most part, pretty good battery lives....

Getting things in order can be particularly difficult and so is keeping track of information around us too. Remembering tasks at hand and juggling different things at the same time is a tiring ordeal. These predicament cam be solved using a variety of apps that offers the combination of both a To-do-list and note taking. And we are here to bring you the best of these apps. Keeping in mind that you’ve got preferences, there is a bunch of options to choose from according to your taste....

As tech evolves by the day, it is now much easier for marketers and entrepreneurs to sell online. They can do this with several tools which are available for building highly-converting landing pages and sales funnels. This post compiles the top 5 landing page builder software to build landing pages that converts. 5 Best Landing Page Builder Software for Marketers 1. Funneljoy Funneljoy is a sales funnel and landing page builder for marketers and entrepreneurs to sell online....

It is not only annoying but also time-consuming to wait for a website to load or a message to send. The frustration even worsens when you are in a region with strong network signal but still can’t surf the internet. This can be caused by your carrier or maybe something about your device. In this article, we shall share easy steps to fix mobile data issues. First things first, how do you know that your mobile data has issues?...

Torrent clients are very significant when in the use of internet most especially the downloading section. Although Torrents have a bad reputation for their use for illegal file-sharing, they have many legitimate uses, including sharing free software, downloading music released for free by artists, and as a way to download large files you’ve already paid for. What is a Torrent Client? A Torrent client is communications protocol used for peer-to-peer file sharing....

Google has long been the dominant player in the search engine market, but that is beginning to change. With advances in artificial intelligence (AI), a number of new search engines are emerging that are powered by sophisticated algorithms and machine learning capabilities, and are giving Google a run for its money. In this article, we will discuss some of the top AI-driven search engines giving Google a run for its money....

The smartphone industry today is bustling as more and more phone makers scramble to be the ones to to build the smartphone you will have in your pocket for the next two or so years. Of all the players in the world today, Samsung holds the biggest share with around 31.38% of total smartphones sold. And for good reason, Samsung devices offer class-leading features in many segments including the best OLED panels in the business, sleek designs and one of the more refined Android experiences we have today in form of OneUI....

Twitter has introduced a 140 seconds ‘Voice Tweets’ feature. This, they did, to ‘add a human touch’ to the way the platform is used. Currently, the character limit on each tweet is set at 280 characters. This new feature can help users to pass more information in one tweet, or add context to the typed tweet. Like the previous character limit on Twitter, each voice tweet has a 140 seconds time limit....

1. Founded by a University dropout Uber was founded in 2009 in San Francisco as “UberCab” by University of California dropout Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp who is also the founder of StumbleUpon. Uber was Kalanick’s third venture with the first one having gone bankrupt. 2. Uber Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. are different companies Uber, a NYC design firm registered the name Uber Inc. way back in 1999. Later Uber Cab the app and later transport company registered Uber Technologies Inc....

If you are a TV fanatic, one that gets glued to the screen till the day takes its break, you should have seen some labels appear in the upper left corner of the screen at the beginning of TV shows, and often again after commercial breaks. These are called TV ratings and content labels, a system that gives parents more information about the content and age-appropriateness of TV programs. With TV channels and programs being numerous, it is hard for parents to monitor what their children are watching; that is how these ratings come in to help....

Vodafone Uganda joined the fierce telecom market in Uganda in November last year. They launched with relatively affordable internet devices consisting of USB Modems, Mi-Fis and routers. Vodafone Uganda’s data pricing structure was carefully aligned with the competition except for the daily data bundle that was priced at a crazy UGX 2,400 for only 50MB. However Vodafone instantly recognized this miscalculated move and re-calibrated its daily 50MB data bundle to be in line with the market....

Vodafone Uganda Voice/Call Tariffs: Vodafone has started with a flat rate of Ugx 5/= per second to any network. All calls are charged per second and they are not offering any other tariff. It’s also ridiculous that Vodafone is charging 99/= per SMS in the era of WhatsApp. The tariff is affordable and it might work for many seeing as it amounts to about UGx 330 for every minute to any network....

Yesterday MTN Uganda officially launched the widest 4G LTE network in Uganda. The largest telecom in the country hosts 75 4G LTE sites around the country with districts like Kampala, Entebbe, Jinja, Gulu, Masaka, Mbale among others. Dignited was yesterday hosted to a “Tech show” at MTN Towers in Kampala where we had first impressions with the new networks speeds. We used a Huawei Honor 4G LTE smartphone, a Huawei 4G LTE Mifi tethered to a windows PC and speedtest....

In this era of fake news, buzzwords are one of those things you ought to take with a grain of salt. So when you hear wind of “AI Camera” or “AI Smartphone” you get naturally sceptic. A healthy dose of scepticism goes a long way in helping not to fall onto a bandwagon going nowhere if you ask me. But by the looks of things, AI Camera is here to stay....

The next version of Android, Android 10 is just around the corner and OEMs have wasted no time in working on their own skinned version of this new version. Already we have seen Nokia release a timeline detailing when their existing devices should get updated to Android 10. Samsung is also expected to shade some light on the same, maybe we shall see a beta announced for it at the Samsung Developer Conference like what happened with the One UI beta last year....

Global Position System(GPS) is familiar to most people. It helps us get directions on map apps and get recommendations from location-based services such as restaurants, hotels, gyms and so much more. GPS systems are used in smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches among other consumer electronics today. But what is A-GPS? If you have used a smartwatch or fitness band, you have probably seen a notification from the companion app of your smartwatch which says “updating AGPS” ....

With the internet comes a lot of new possibilities and enhanced levels of connectivity. The situation is made even more potent with the ever increasing number of smart devices like smartphones and tablets. This has become such a powerful combination that often times, it often feels as though we are merely scratching the surface of what we can do. For a really long time, Skype was a household name, a means of communication between family and friends who were beyond the reach of your local carrier....