Vivo

2022 is off to the races and as expected, the first smartphone season is upon us. For the uninitiated, we tend to see many of the popular entry and mid-range OEMs in our local markets announce their devices early in the year. Already, we have... Read More

In 2020, vivo launched a couple of cool budget-friendly smartphones into the Nigeria smartphone market. That momentum doesn't look like it is dropping this year as the company has just introduced the new vivo y51, the successor to the vivo y50 it released in 2020.... Read More

Vivo is slowly but surely becoming a household brand name in Kenya, joining the likes of Oppo and TECNO in the 'hall of fame'. In the recent past, we have seen the company doubling down on the mid-range segment of the market with the launch... Read More

Built-in file sharing feature on smartphones is a long-standing system of sharing between smartphones of the same brand or running the same OS. There is Apple's Airdrop that has been around since 2011, OnePlus's FileDash and Android Beam from Google. However, three smartphone brands (Oppo,... Read More

This year, a lot of things changed about our (smart)phones. Manufacturers are making phones smarter, slimmer, more aesthetically appealing, stuffing them with as many cameras and sensors as possible, and above all, ensuring they are lag-free and provide near-PC speed and smooth usage experience. Many... Read More

The fingerprint scanner has grown to become one of the most trusted and most used methods of smartphone biometric authentication. Interestingly, the sensor underwent a major overhaul earlier this year in terms of its form and position; in a bid to make our phones slimmer... Read More