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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Covenant University launched an app that serves as an educational platform for learning, obtaining academic information and also as a social platform for its students.With the rebranding of the institution which involves the provision of Samsung tablets to every student, the app seeks to foster an environment that encourages intellectual capacity building. The EduSocial…
The Infinix Hot edged out competing devices from the likes of Nokia and Samsung, the become the best selling smartphone for the month of March A total of about 539,000 phones were sold in March 2015, 21,368 of which were units of the Infinix Hot. That’s about 4% of the market share. What’s interesting to note…
The reason I’m such a huge fan of Snapchat as a social media platform and as a blooming startup is because of the extent at which they actually listen to their users. They really have their ear to the ground and it shows in their latest update, which includes a long-awaited feature of being able to zoom…
The LG G4 is South Korean OEM, LG’s flagship 2015 smartphone. Featuring a premium true leather back design, a 5.5 inch display with impressive 538 ppi density, 3GB of RAM, 32GB internal memory, a 16MP shooter and 8MP front camera, it’s certainly a device to die for. Following probably the most secretive pre-release campaign since…
Last week, at an invite-only event held at the CcHub, eTranzact launched the new PocketMoni Mobile payments application, a retake of what mobile money can be with a new mobile experience, and some new features on its mobile money network. Of all the features, 3 really seemed to stand out and may just attain the…
Yoruba101, the Yoruba teaching app, released by Genii Games’ Asa brand of African culture is targeted at kids in order to promote the African culture among them through mobile technology.But, and I’m looking at all of you English-speaking 21 and 22 year olds, that cannot speak Yoruba, everyone should get in touch with their culture.…
Here are 4 projects by the African Dev Community that really got us talking and we believe you will find interesting: Cruncher At the top of the list is Cruncher, an app made with Ruby on Rails and Angular to “make sense”/ analyse your GTB transaction statement. Maybe you can find out what you’ve been…
Ok, I just watched Samsung’s latest ad for its Galaxy S6 Edge, and I hate to say it – no, I really don’t – but they seem to have really stuck to their tradition of unoriginality. Wait, before anyone calls me an Apple fanboy – which, to be very honest, I am – just look…
Snapchat just launched a new update that lets users message content to their friends from within Snapchat Discover. Yeah, you probably don’t even know what Snapchat’s Discover is, well, this update will likely change that for a bunch of users. Discover, is Snapchat’s news and editorial platform that delivers daily stories and videos from the…
As the popular saying goes, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, and as with previous democratic presidents of Nigeria, it’s definitely note going to be an exception for the incoming president, General Muhammadu Buhari. The president-elect will have more than social and traditional media to worry about, as the available media already got an…
The last Star Wars movie was released about 10 whole years ago, and with the reboot so close it might be a little difficult for fans of the franchise to fully remember details of that very vast universe. Well, Google just made it a whole lot easier to brush up on your Star Wars knowledge.…
Konga’s CEO, Sim Shagaya, in a tweet yesterday evening, invited everyone to find bugs on the Konga Android/iOS app, and get paid for it. He has got quite a response. https://twitter.com/SimShagaya/status/595278891507396610 Basically, find fault with the Konga app and get 10,000 for your troubles. This is a first of it’s kind Google-esque call in Nigeria;…
Microsoft has created a pretty fun, but wildly inaccurate website that tells you how old you look just by analyzing your photo. Well, sometimes the ‘How Old Do I Look’ app manages to be accurate, but other times it’s just ridiculously wrong (LMAO at Madonna). The process is pretty basic. You go to the site here,…
Over the week, I was trying to shop for a printer on one of the leading online marketplaces in the country. The printer I wanted to go for had no model number in the product details, so I tried getting across to the support team of the store on every available channel but couldn’t get…
When we go online to search for solutions, what we mostly search for is what we want solved, not specific products. The only exception is when the products have been successfully registered in our minds. I stumbled upon a post by Megan E. Holstein on Medium titled ‘How to Refine Your App Idea‘ which gives some insight…
According to MTN, over 90% of internet access in Nigeria is via mobile. Yet for some reason, Nigerian-centric apps are not getting as much attention as they deserve. MTN reckons they can remedy this malady with (yet again) another App Discovery platform, which they announced yesterday in Lagos during the launch of the “Apptitude” campaign.…
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…