You should read through. READ MORE: iPad Mini 6 vs 5: Should You Upgrade Your Device? iPad Air 5 vs 4: What’s Different? Software & CPU The chipset that came with the iPad Air 4 was the A14 Bionic. (This was upgraded from the A12 Bionic in the previous generation). While the iPad Air 5 came with the M1 powering it. With this upgrade, you should expect stronger and faster performance....

Fingerprint scanning is the reigning king though. You can find devices that cost less than $100 that have these sensors and they are very accurate at that. With TouchID having matured for almost a decade now and the tech behind it matured enough, how secure is this mode of authentication really? Can you unlock a phone with a fake fingerprint? So can your phone be unlocked without your finger? With a lot of effort and know-how, Yes....

This also means you can engage in the various activity such as treasure hunts and mystery shopping, at the comfort of your mobile data. The catch; you must be an MTN Uganda subscriber to benefit. What is zero-rated surfing? We told you about SafeBoda’s similar initiative, where riders can request for SafeBodas to pick them up without spending their data. But many people didn’t understand this, and we are here to explain....

Kionect is simple to use. It works in a way that orders by kiosk owners are submitted through the feature phone helps create a digital account of the transactions made by the kiosk owners that gives them access to micro-loans to stock inventory and grow their business. The technology from Mastercard gives a detailed digital log of data from transactions that qualify the micro-retailers for loans to get stock inventory from Musoni, a locally available micro-finance provider....

The new venture, AIG express will incorporate established and growing logistics providers into a single network to meet the growing needs of online sellers and provide a constant stream of business through consolidation of sales volumes from the two leading e-commerce companies. According to Indrek heinloo who is leading the initiative across Africa “The venture is currently delivering up-to 100,000 packages a day for Jumia and Kaymu with the number expected to grow five-folds by the end of the year....

Just so you know, it’s a 6.1-inch phone with a notch at the top of its LCD screen, powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor and running on 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage & 6GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage for the G7+. Both support microSD card expansion of up to 2TB. The G7 has a dual-camera system, it’s IP68 rated for water and dust resistance, and it supports wireless charging....

MEST takes equity in its startup’s portfolio and they have incubation support from the tech hub for 18 months as well as an option to work out of its incubators across different African locations. MEST is looking to go beyond seed-stage investments to form a VC fund for series stage rounds to African startup. Read More: OPay finally launches “OBus”, a bus-hailing service in Nigeria Furthermore, the recipients of the seed fund are from Ghana, South Africa....

“Uganda is suffering a shortage of blood and what is important is that you, me and every able Ugandan can do something about it by joining the MTN Blood Drive. By donating blood, we are not just saving lives, we’re giving love and joy,” said Wim Vanhelleputte the CEO MTN Uganda, in a message to MTN staff as he encouraged them to be part of the drive. According to UBTS, on top of there being a blood shortage, there is need for hospitals to have a steady supply of blood because it is one way of saving lives....

“Computers are my passion and I love using them to solve problems.” Declares a jolly Asingwire who doesn’t clearly know how he became a health practitioner. Julius Tusingwire is one of the winners in the MTN for a good campaign that was launched early 2020. In this campaign, MTN Uganda sought to awaken youths to the fact that they can achieve their dreams if they dare pursue them. Youths were asked to submit a one minute video of their dreams and where they would like to take them....

Last year, HMD launched the redesigned Nokia 3310. A looker it was, and brought back memories of the OG but it was limited as it lacked 3G and was a fearure phone straight up. The banana phone, which gets its name from the curved frame and the slide-out mouthpiece, is a slightly different case. The company has tried to make the phone a little more relevant in the modern life by cramming a 4G radio in there hence Nokia 8110 4G....

Before a business makes an educated choice on which payment processor to use, however, it is best to look at the features that both offer among other things. This piece is meant to make the whole process easier by highlighting relevant parts of the products a merchant, business or freelancer might need to make a sound decision. This would be based on three (3) parameters: Features, Pricing, and Customer Support....

“Pilot” consists of a wireless headset, with separate left and right earpieces that translate messages for users speaking differing languages. It is designed to translate common dialects with Latin being the core. Each of the users wears an earpiece with the pivot of the conversation being the Waverly app, freely downloadable for both Android and iOS, that both should have installed on their smartphones. Once the conversation is ‘synced’ through a matching QR code on the app, then the platform is set for communication....

The Samsung Z spots a 4.8-inch 720p S-AMOLED display, a 2.3GHz quad-core CPU with 2GB RAM, with a Snapdragon 800 processor. The device comes with a fingerprint scanner similar to the one in the Galaxy S5, pair of 8MP and 2.1MP rear and front cameras, 16GB of internal storage, and whooping 2600mAh battery. Sized at 5.44 x 2.74 x 0.33 inches (138.2 x 69.8 x 8.5mm) and weighing 4.8 oz (136g), the device runs on Tizen OS 2....

Samsung Galaxy F22 Specs at a Glance Octa-Core MediaTek Helio G80 processor with Mali-G52 MC2 GPU6.4-inch 1600 x 720 pixels Super AMOLED display4GB/6GB RAM and 64GB/128GB internal storageQuad 48MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP rear cameras and an 13MP front cameraFingerprint scanner (side)6, 000mAh non removable Li-Po battery Read More: Samsung Galaxy A22 in Nigeria: Specs, Price and Features The Samsung Galaxy F22 is literally the Galaxy A22 with a bigger battery and it is not uncommon at this point....

Samsung has launched its “Linux on Dex” app in beta and is inviting geeks and tinkerers to register and help test and develop it. The app lets owners of specific Samsung devices “run” a full Ubuntu desktop on their device alongside Android. The Beta that was showcased at the Samsung Developer Conference 2018 is currently compatible with the Galaxy Note 9 and the Samsung Tab S4. there’s a chance that more Dex-supported devices will be compatible, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one....

Shop and Ship is solving a pertinent issue regarding shipping addresses. They have provided 18 shipping addresses around major global cities enabling you to shop or ship items from almost anywhere in the world which may not have been possible with other players who ship from only particular destinations like USA, UK or China. What is Shop and Ship and what do they do? Shop and Ship by Aramex is an international shipping service available in over 80 destinations globally that allows you to shop from Canada, China, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, and USA and they deliver it to you at affordable rates....

We caught up with the country General Manager, Stephen S. Musoke, a self-taught long time software developer, father, a mentor to the Techpost (now Dignited) team and an ardent reader of this blog to tell us more about Thoughtworks, its operations in Africa and insights into the Tech industry. What is Thoughtworks? Thoughtworks is an organization that uses technology while working with clients with ambitious missions. We opened the Kampala office in Africa in August 2012, shortly after we opened in Johannesburg....

GBL is an initiative sprung from Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), one of the leading business schools in Europe. Today a separate entity, GBL strives to support driven entrepreneurs in building their ventures through a network of business labs. We provide infrastructure, coaching, knowledge and networks to ensure faster time to market, faster growth and higher survival rate. GBL’s research-based and award winning model of incubation increases return on investment for the entrepreneur, partners, investors and the local communities in which we operate....

Here are the devices that wowed us the most. Sony Smartwatch The Sony SmartWatch, is a wearable device that connects to an Android smartphone and can display Twitter feeds, SMS, among other things. It is compatible with most Android phones unlike Samsung’s competing Galaxy Gear SmartWatch, which only works with a few of Samsung’s own Galaxy handsets. The Smart Watch features an aluminum body, 1.6in transflective LCD screen with 220 x 176 pixels, 280MHz single-core processor, Bluetooth 3....

What they are promising is that the C9 is a Camera phone like none you have seen before. They have compared the quality and output of the C9 to that of the iPhone 6s and Samsung S6. Going by what they have done with the Boom series, it just might be true that C9 is worth all the hype. Unfortunately the Tecno Camon C8 Camera wasn’t all that for me even if the device itself was okay....