Apps & Gadgets
Electronics are getting smaller and smaller, and we all have our own special must-have gadgets. Smartphones and tablets are the most obvious examples of electronic gadgets. Other examples of electronic gadgets include e-book readers, smartwatches, digital fitness trackers, GPS devices and video game machines.
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The Gionee Elife E7 is a high end Android device, powered by a 2.2 GHz Quad-core snapdragon processor and a 2500 mAh battery. It comes in 2 variations – 2 GB RAM/16 GB memory and 3 GB RAM/32 GB memory. Our review unit is the 3 GB RAM/32 GB variant. Spec Highlights Specheads can view the full specsheet…
If you’re an iPhone user like myself, you might have felt a little cheated when Whatsapp rolled out its voice calling update on Android, and we were annoyingly left out. Well, I have great news, we will also soon be able to make free calls from the IOS version of the app too. I mean an update…
Facebook’s Hello app is kinda like the new TrueCaller, but with better features. It not only instantly matches phone numbers of incoming and outgoing calls to Facebook profiles to show you information about who you’re talking to, but it also preemptively blocks unwanted calls, and allows you search for people and businesses to call. Hello…
Rapper, Jay Z might have found his 100th problem now, since his High Fidelity music streaming service, Tidal has not started the music streaming revolution that its A-lister panel had hoped, with early numbers for Jay Z’s app suggesting it’s flopping. Because as it turns out, people are not really willing to pay $20 a…
African social marketplace, MOBOfree.com, today announced that it has recorded an increase of more than 44% in the number of registered users of MOBOfree.com in Nigeria over the past 12 months, resulting in a 1042% increase in the number of classifieds published on MOBOfree.com in Nigeria, which makes more than 500 000 active listings on…
The wave of kidnapping in Nigeria; case in point: over 200 Chibok school girls and the recent domestic maid that carted away with the 3 Orekoya boys in Surulere, Lagos; has emphasized the need to depersonalize security and up the usage of technology to prevent these occurrences. All of these spurred Adedayo Charis (of the Transportation…
We all know that frustrating feeling when your phone is definitely nearby, but you just can’t find it or remember where you left it. Thanks to Google, you can now search for your Android phone by typing “find my phone” in Google search. A windows pops out with a map showing your phone’s current or…
How good are you at calculating math problems without a calculator? A 400 level Computer Engineering student of the University of Lagos, Akinde-Peters Joseph, has developed the WhizApp, to test not only how good, but how fast you can answer math problems. One more question – do you have a disturbing cousin or younger sibling that wants…
When I first heard about the Kozi App, I had no idea what it did. But after visiting the website, which spots the tagline,’Your Career Companion,’ and downloading the app, it seems to me like a DIY career consulting platform with a job-listing model. “The app does not tell you your perfect job, it simply takes your…
Nokia may well soon become the largest manufacturer of telecoms equipment in the world, overtaking Ericsson and Huawei with the purchase of French telecom equipment maker, Alcatel-Lucent for 15.6 billion euros ($16.6 billion), which is more than double the $7 billion Microsoft paid for its Windows Phone handset arm. Media reports state that Nokia acquired…
Popular messaging platform, WhatsApp has finally embraced Google’s aesthetically pleasing Material Design language, first used on Android Lollipop 5.0. This new version comes with totally revamped appearance with new icons, animations, and color-flipped emoji tray. The update (version 2.12.38) is not available yet on the Google Play store so you have to get it from the WhatsApp…
The International Space Apps Challenge is an annual 2-day hackathon that brings together developers, technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs and students, with a focus on utilizing publicly available data – sourced from NASA’s Open Data Initiative – to proffer locally and globally relevant solutions to problems relating to life on earth and space exploration.…
Developed by Taofeek Adeshina and his team, all Computer Science Students from the University of Lagos, Slangz is a mobile dictionary for pidgin English and commonly used internet slangs in Nigeria. Sort of like the Urban Dictionary, but for Nigerian colloquials. In recognition of the obvious fact that pidgin and slangs are developed informally with…
Online shopping website, Konga has announced its collaboration with SuperGeeks; an after-sales tech support and gadget repair service provider, to offer Nigeria’s first Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) supplementary warranty service called the Gadget Protection Plan (GPP). This special insurance package will be available at the point of purchase for many devices sold on Konga’s online…
According to Blackberry, when measured against 22 other messaging apps, including WhatsApp and Snapchat, BBM is shown to hold on to over 93% of its users after first 30 days of installation. Even after the 60 and 90-day marks, BBM still shows higher user loyalty than most apps. As reported by The Information and CNBC,…
Blackberry 10 users have begun noticing a call button appear within active chat screens of WhatsApp messenger. You will remember that WhatsApp calling recently became publicly available to all Android users, after weeks of beta testing. It would appear that the feature has also gone public for Blackberry 10 users. The implementation of this new feature is native to…
For a while now, the tech blogosphere has been abuzz with news of WhatsApp’s voice call feature finally arriving, albeit reserved only for a select few. Before now you needed to have an invite – a call from a contact who had the feature enabled – to be enabled to start using WhatsApp voice calling.…
Samsung Electronics West Africa has announced that its latest collection of smartphones, the Galaxy S6 edge and the S6 duos are now available for pre-order in Nigeria. The devices will be available in 32GB and 64GB for the S6 edge and 32GB for the S6 duos, and the pre-ordering campaign kicked off yesterday, March 30th,…
The 2015 General Elections in Nigeria are just days away, and there’s much buzz around change and transformation. While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is heading to the 2015 polls with card reader devices for accreditation, as a way of guarding against election malpractices, Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria also wants us to head to the…
It was the March edition of the CcHub‘s Developers’ Parapo and the final item on the agenda was the usability testing of Jekalo – an application in its demo stage that helps people to offer or join a ride based on proximity. The name Jekalo is a Yoruba phrase for ‘let’s go.’ How does Jekalo help you? The platform uses the…