Image: Jan Koum Phenomenal growth When Whatsapp was bought by Facebook in 2014, it had a little over 450M users. Since then Whatsapp has been on an upward growth trajectory adding up to a million users a day. It’s no surprise that today it has made a billions users worldwide. Features Added Over the years Whatsapp has added multiple features that have seen it morph into the messaging king that it is now....
It is an upgrade from the 4G technology we are all used to. But unlike the 4G technology, 5G is not just aimed at improving the connection between people, but enhance emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), etc. However, in late 2019, countries in Africa began testing the 5G technology. In South Africa, Rain, the data-only mobile network, MTN SA, Vodacom SA, and Liquid Telecom SA all launched trials for 5G technology....
Well, Silicon has a number of properties that make it unusual among other chemical elements. You see, at the moment, scientists know of only 118 elements. From these 118 known elements, only 6 are classified as metalloids. Silicon is one of the metalloids. These metalloids exhibit metal-like characteristics but aren’t true metals. Usually, they have a silvery shiny look like true metals. But instead of being malleable, they’re often quite brittle....
It lets you compress and unpack any file in a very easy, quick, and efficient way. WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows, developed by Eugene Roshal. It can create and view archives in RAR or ZIP file formats and unpack numerous archive file formats. Is WinRAR free forever? This isn’t some glitch or bad programming either, WinRAR is well aware of this bypass and it’s very much instrumental....
I mean, it should be a fair concern given how much VRAM modern games need. You see, the main purpose of VRAM is to store textures and visual assets that get processed by the GPU to render and output frames to your display. And with how fast video games have been advancing, these visual assets keep asking for more space. More so, if you prefer gaming at higher resolutions. Additionally, given how fast the GPU is required to output frames, it requires very quick access to VRAM....
There is no shortage of ways to ‘Microsoft-ify’ your Android, from the Microsoft Launcher to the Bing search app and everything in between. Literally. In a surprise move, Microsoft is reportedly working on bringing its Windows-based antivirus, Windows Defender, to Android. Well, to iOS as well. So, to put it more accurately, Microsoft is bringing Defender to mobile. READ MORE: Do you still need Antivirus software? Microsoft says that it plans to bring this tool later this year but isn’t revealing exactly what the apps will do just yet....
Both smartphones have a 6.67-inch CrystalRes AMOLED display. Xiaomi 12T Series — Xiaomi 12T and Xiaomi 12T Pro — also feature a 5,000mAh battery and 120W HyperCharge. The Xiaomi 12T comes with a triple camera unit led by a 108-megapixel primary camera, while the Xiaomi 12T Pro is headlined by a whopping 200-megapixel imaging system. Both smartphones are claimed and advertised to charge fully in 19 minutes, providing up to 13....
Xiaomi isn’t the only one pushing the frontiers of wireless charging. In July, Chinese smartphone vendor Oppo also announced 65W AirVOOC wireless flash charger along with a 125W wired charger. The 65W AirVOOC wireless flash charger which can fully charge a 4000mAh battery in 30 minutes uses charge pump technology and parallel dual-coil design to further increase wireless charging efficiency. Xiaomi’s 80W wireless tech follows the 40W wireless charger it announced at first quarter of the year and 50W mast-produced version in August....
Airtel has been at the harbinger in innovating to make mobile money platform a significant tool for the customer’s convenience. Through their together we can campaign they have partnered with many companies like Total Uganda to give their customers convenient and affordable access to products and services. True convenience is being able to pay for your fuel and other services from your mobile phone and Airtel customers will now be able to pay for the fuel and other services directly through their mobile devices....
Previously Google offered Youtube offline in its officially app only through select countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, India, Ghana etc cutting off a big percentage of the developing world that need the service. The Youtube Go app is on the Google play store although currently only officially available in India. So I had to use third-party stores, AppMirror to download the App to my phone as an APK and manually install....
Infinix Zero 2 has a 5.0″, 720 x 1280 pixels (294ppi) display, sports octacore mediatek 6529 processor clocked at 2.0GHz. The Infinix Zero 2 is upgraded to 2GB RAM with 16/32GB internal memory versions running Android 4.4.2Kitkat OS. Zero 2 has13 MP rear/ 5 MP front cameras and is powered by a 2300mAh battery. Here’s a complete comparison between the Infinix Zero X506 and the new Infinix Zero 2 X509....
I have held the device for over a month now, and the tales my lips possess are of unending love for it. You can’t take my sight off it, not even for a second. Today am not talking about price. We all know how affordable Infinix has made its phones, and in particular the Infinix Smart. Am spelling out the amazing features that it comes with, those that you definitely will love as well....
This is the first phone from Infinix Mobility with dual rear camera setup and 6GB of RAM. It has 64GB internal storage space with the Infinix Zero 5 Pro variant coming with 128GB on board storage. But what are the reasons for you to purchase yourself a piece? Let’s take a look. Sleek Body and Amazing Display The Zero 5 features a 5.98 Inch Full High Definition 2.5D Curved Glass Display – with a resolution of 1080*1920 pixels – inside a Metallic unibody....
Here, are five applications that will show you detailed specifications about any phone. My Specs With this application, you are able to find latest Tech news, phones and their specs along with compare, filters and reviews. Features Complete specs of your device. This app will automatically notify you about the latest news. Find complete specs of all the phones out there. You can filter the phones with more than 65 filters like never before....
Like many people, accessing your email using the web browser seems to be the most common way of doing things. It is simple to use, customizable with themes, and so on. But that is not the only way of doing it. Email clients have been a thing for a long time now and should you be in need for one of these, chances are that your operating system comes with one of these baked in already....
Below, I will discuss five places you can find free images for your blog posts, Facebook and Twitter updates. Unsplash Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing stock photography under the Unsplash license. The website claims over 110,000 contributing photographers and generates more than 9 billion photo impressions per month on their growing library of over 810,000 photos. You can do whatever you want with their collection of beautiful, high-resolution images from the vast number of contributors....
From personal experience, we have observed that Uber provides certain incentives to users. Anybody who takes advantage of these will save on their Uber rides and end up paying far less. Everybody loves a good bargain, better still, when you know the rules. Below are 5 tips to help you save on those Uber rides: Promo codes Promo codes are an ingenious way to get free rides from Uber. What’s more, both the person using the code you have provided them and yourself get free rides....
Even though battery technology has improved, and these old tricks wouldn’t work (not that they ever worked), a lot of smartphone users still believe in them fill date. Drain battery completely before charging Trust me, you don’t need to drain your battery completely before charging it. Every lithium-ion battery comes with a stable amount of charge cycles. This is the number of times you can charge up to 100 percent and run down to 0 percent....
These technical specifications come embedded mainly in high end smartphones, whereas there is ability for compatibility with branded devices, as well as any other supported phones. We outline for you the various smartphone quick charge technologies and how they work. MediaTek Pump Express 3.0 This uses an inbuilt SoC (Systems-on-chip) technology to control heat issues and quick charging for powered devices. It can charge a smartphone battery from zero to 70% in as little as 20 minutes; and can charge within 5 minutes for four hours of talk time....
Fortunately, there’s a way viewers can adjust video quality in Netflix but it’s not exactly straightforward like you would easily do on YouTube and other video streaming platforms. By default, Netflix plays video in the highest quality available. It’s left to you to adjust the quality of videos to a lower-resolution if you have limited internet bandwidth or poor internet connection. To change your video quality on Netflix, follow the easy steps below....
