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WhatsApp Now Lets You Call People Who Don’t Have an Account

Guest Writer — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:27:17 +0000

WhatsApp has launched guest calls, a new feature that lets people join voice and video calls without creating a WhatsApp account or installing the app. Announced on October 14, the feature allows users to share a call link with anyone, who can then open it in a browser, enter their name and join after receiving […]

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Google Pay Is Finally Working in Kenya, But There Is a Catch

Guest Writer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:26:42 +0000

Google Pay appears to have finally arrived in Kenya, although there is a little more to the story than simply downloading Google Wallet and tapping your phone at any payment terminal. Nancy Kilimo, Head of Card Centre at Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), has confirmed that she successfully made a payment using her DTB card through […]

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Series Gets Major Upgrades, But There Is a Catch

Guest Writer — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:58:27 +0000

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab S12 series, and the company has thrown a fairly serious hardware upgrade at its latest tablets. The lineup consists of the Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra and Galaxy Tab S12+, both running Android 17 and powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500. The Ultra is also just 5.1mm thick, which is the […]

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Samsung Galaxy SmartTag3 Can Track Your Stuff for More Than Two Years

Guest Writer — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:43:53 +0000

Samsung has launched the Galaxy SmartTag3, and the biggest change is not the smaller design or longer battery life. For the first time, Samsung’s tracker works with iPhones. That makes the SmartTag3 considerably more useful for families and groups that do not all use Galaxy phones, although Samsung is still keeping some of its best […]

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Googlebook Signals a Major Shift for the Future of Chromebooks

Guest Writer — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:00:44 +0000

Google has spent 15 years building ChromeOS into one of the simplest operating systems you can put on a laptop. Now it is effectively rebuilding it. The company’s new Googlebook devices introduce Googlebook OS, a new operating system that combines the ChromeOS experience with the Android technology stack. Google says this will bring native Android […]

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Samsung Releases One UI 9 for Galaxy S25 Edge and S25 FE

Guest Writer — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:00:52 +0000

Samsung has started rolling out the stable One UI 9.0 update to the Galaxy S25 Edge and Galaxy S25 FE, giving the two remaining S25-series phones access to Android 17. The rollout comes shortly after Samsung released the stable update for the Galaxy S25, S25+ and S25 Ultra, with South Korea once again getting the […]

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Edges Apple A20 Pro in CPU, But GPU Tells a Different Story

Guest Writer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:28:15 +0000

Qualcomm has another flagship Snapdragon, and thankfully the name is only Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yes, that is the actual name. Qualcomm has been moving its flagship naming around for years, from the Snapdragon 888 to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, 8 Gen 2 and 8 Gen 3, before deciding that “Elite” was […]

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Why WhatsApp on Your Android Phone Might Have Suddenly Stopped Working

Guest Writer — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:00:49 +0000

WhatsApp has stopped working on phones running Android 5.0 and Android 5.1, with the change taking effect on September 8. According to a report by WABetaInfo, the messaging app now requires at least Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and the requirement applies to both WhatsApp Messenger and WhatsApp Business. So, if WhatsApp suddenly stopped working on your […]

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Drives More Than Half of Samsung’s S26 Sales, Trails Three iPhones

Guest Writer — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:57:53 +0000

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra has emerged as the world’s best-selling Android smartphone, beating every other Android device in global sales during the second quarter of 2026 according to a report by Counterpoint Research. The flagship ranked fourth overall, behind Apple’s iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone 17 Pro, according to Counterpoint Research’s Global […]

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Google Messages Rolls Out New Feature to Personalise Your Chats

Guest Writer — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:36:07 +0000

Google has introduced a new feature on Google Messages that allows users to personalise individual conversations with custom colours and wallpapers. The new Chat Theme feature gives users more control over how their conversations appear, allowing them to change message bubble colours and add images as chat backgrounds. Users can, for instance, select a favourite […]

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