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Infinix Smart X5010 Review: Your Stylish Portable Companion

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When it comes to fixing people’s boring moods, Infinix Mobility Limited has somehow mastered this game by dropping one stylish phone to another in the ever changing technology business. Today allow me to take you through my 2-week thrilling experience with the stylish Infinix Smart X5010.

Before using any of its functions, you will be overwhelmed by the classy look of this amazing gadget that comes with a free USB cable which also doubles as its charger when connected to a free plug, all sealed in one affordable pack with a pair of headsets.

The Infinix Smart is physically a medium sized dual-sim Android/smart phone capable of fitting in your pockets which may one time save you from city pocket pickers. Feeling safe already? Well it has a lot more than just that. This Infinix Smart X5010 is also a smooth cool looking piece of gadget that you can comfortably pull out anytime, anywhere without feeling intimidated by the class of people you are surrounded with.

Being a quad core device with a 4.99 inch touch screen, you can ably view HD videos from both online and on your saved video gallery.

The Battery

This amazing Infinix Smart X5010 comes with an inbuilt non-removable battery that can take you up to a day on a single charge depending on your usage. This Battery is a 3060 mAh type which will save you from the trouble of carrying a charger to work or any other long lasting engagement. This amazing smart phone also gives you an option of monitoring which app takes a lot of your battery something that will make you decide on which application to use most especially when your battery is running low.

Camera

The Infinix Smart X5010 is designed with two cameras including an 8 mega pixel rear camera (with a flash light) as well as the 2 mega pixel selfie camera. As a matter of fact, the picture quality for both the front and the selfie cameras is lacking most especially for indoor scenes. This may be a major setback to Instagram and snapchat freaks.

Storage and Internet

Another amazing feature on the Infinix Smart X5010 is its storage capacity of 16GB in addition to 1GB of RAM. With its 16GB Phone storage capability, you can download as many apps as you can from Google play as well as other files like music.

Speaking of internet, the Infinix Smart X5010 does not support 4G network since it was designed to use only 2G and 3G internet connections. This may happen to be another setback in this technology evolving era where every internet user prefers 4G internet. However, the good news is that it supports wi-fi which you can connect to for a faster internet experience. With the Infinix smart X5010, you don’t have to be selfish with your internet since it also supports Hotspot internet sharing. With this feature, you can actually enjoy internet with your friends.

So if you looking for a phone that won’t break the bank? Hurry to your nearest shop and secure yourself a brand new Infinix Smart X5010 at an affordable price of 339,000/-. You can also order for the Infinix Smart on Killimall and Jumia at

Infinix Smart X5010 Tech Specs

Did you know you can see someone’s WhatsApp status without being seen as one of the stalkers?

By
Joel Osekeny
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You are probably disgusted with the new WhatsApp-Snapchat status update that keeps on disappearing after 24 hours. You are also always prompted to check someone’s status even when do not want to be seen as among the people that viewed someone’s status yet you cannot avoid the temptation to do so.

You can view such statuses without being seen as one of the “stalkers”.

  1. Use the privacy setting in your WhatsApp. Access the settings, click on accounts, choose privacy, disable the “Read receipts”, untick this option.

Whereas you will be able to see the other person’s status without appearing on the stalkers list, there is a catch. You too will not be able to see those that see your statuses when you update. You will always have 0 Views which I do not think you will be comfortable with given the fact that we all want to be able to see how many people check on us.

It will also mean that you will not be seeing blue ticks in your WhatsApp messages. The message will remain with that dull grey color whether it has been read or not. You will not be able to know if someone has actually ignored you or not.

If you dread this option. There is an alternative.

  1. Check the status through your phone storage.

WhatsApp secretly stores statuses in the phone storage on android phones. When you do to the WhatsApp folder in the phone, look for media. You will find a new folder “.statuses” appearing in your list. When you open it, you will find all the statuses from your contacts in your phone.

The only challenge is that you will not be able to know who used that status, because it does not show. But at least you will see every picture or video used as a status.

If you do not see this folder, open your file manager, look its settings, and click on show hidden files. The folder will appear.

All this for not wanting to be seen in someone’s status viewed list.

Google Drive now lets you save individual Slides, Docs or Sheets offline

By
Sourced
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Google Drive addressed one of the biggest advantages of Microsoft Office: offline access and editing. With this feature enabled, Docs, Slides, and Sheets effectively becomes a native application. Anupdate starting today will allow users to select specific files to store and edit without an internet connection.

Previously, Drive’s offline feature would download and store every single document, spreadsheet, and presentation for offline access and editing. With today’s update, users in desktop Chrome will be able to select individual files to store offline.

To make a file available offline, users need to visit the specific Docs, Sheets, or Slides home screen and toggle ‘Available offline’ in a file’s overflow menu. (Note: the individual offline option does not appear in the main Google Drive site.) Once enabled, the file will quickly download in the background and users will have full access, with changes synced when a connection is reestablished. When finished, users can simply toggle the option off.

While syncing everything offline removes the pain of managing files, some users don’t have enough space to store everything. Currently, individual offline access is only showing up for Google Apps customers whose admins have enabled the feature. Presumably, this feature will also roll out to personal Google accounts in the future.

Huawei Uganda Awarded for its Trade Compliance Practices

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Brian Code
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Huawei Uganda has been awarded for its customs compliance practices with an Authorized Economic Operator Certificate by Uganda Revenue Authority. This Status is to enable Huawei enjoy trade facilitation benefits of having its customs clearance done in eight hours prior to the previous four or five days and also enable Huawei provide better services to local business customers and product end-users.

The Authorized Economic Operator Program which is also a world Customs Organization Standard was started by Uganda Revenue Authority in an effort to facilitate and perform its numerous functions in the collection of government Revenue, protection of Society and award of compliant organization to the custom laws, regulations and procedures. It not only enhances government efficiency, helps enterprises improve the internal management, enjoy the trade facilitation measures, but also create more value for the East African Community

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Huawei-Uganda-is-Awarded-AEO-Certificate.

“URA is happy to partner with the industry leading company like Huawei since it has global experience. Huawei is qualified as AEO in both China and Uganda, which makes business simplified and quality of services improved since there shall be importation with ease. We look at having customs clearance at a time below eight hours with AEO”, said Mr. Dicksons Kateshumbwa, the Acting Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority.

Huawei is honored to be an Authorized Economic Operator, as a model company and industry leader with an international value chain, using global best practices.

Kaymu unveils “Lucky Dip” promotion to reward customers.

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Brian Code
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Kaymu, Uganda’s largest online marketplace, has introduced a giveaway promotion called the Kaymu Lucky Dip. The draw runs from the 14th to the 27th of April, during which every customer who makes an order on Kaymu will be entered in to a prize draw. The prizes on offer to the lucky winners include 500,000 UGX cash, HelloFood vouchers, Bluetooth speakers, 5GBs of data courtesy of MTN, CV checks and interview training courtesy of Everjobs, a camping chair and umbrella courtesy of Tusker Malt and a one night stay for two people at the luxury Lake Victoria Serena Hotel, courtesy of Jovago.

Some of the lucky Kaymu Sellers being rewarded
Some of the lucky Kaymu Sellers being rewarded

“It’s all about giving back to our customers. We recently celebrated Kaymu’s 2nd birthday, so we’re thanking our customers for embracing our platform and bringing us this far. We’re not able to give a gift to every single customer we have, but we’ll give every customer who places an order during this promotion, an equal chance of winning – that’s why it’s called a lucky dip.” says Kaymu Uganda’s Marketing Manager, Stacey Mwesezi.

Customers remain loyal where it benefits them, whether in terms of convenience, attractive prices or a generally satisfying experience – so when they receive an unexpected reward from a company, it’s a pleasant surprise. Rewards remind the customer that you’re aware of them, that you appreciate their purchases, and that you’re willing to go above and beyond to keep them happy. This and more are some of the reasons why Kaymu Uganda is giving back to its customers.

DusuPay review: The new profound payment gateway

By
Brian Code
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With the growing trend of digital, Ugandans will only be lost of choice and have no complaints whatsoever when it comes to online mode of payments. The latest in the loop that will excite Ugandans and will find warm reception is DusuPay a new online money transfer system. With close to one year now on the Ugandan market and steadily rising, DusuPay is the freshest mode of payment transfer that simplifies secure online payments amongst individuals.

Business-wise, the platform helps merchants locally, across Africa and the world by connecting traditional banking to regional mobile money services like MTN Mobile Money MPESA and Airtel Money. DusuPay also late last year made an addition of a credit card option – along with World Remit and MTN.

Even when you are away from home, DusuPay has got you covered thanks to their addition of Visa, MasterCard, Amex and American Express that have paved way for instant money transfers from credit cards to DusuPay accounts and vice versa which has enabled anyone from anywhere to send to and receive money in Africa at any time from wherever they maybe.

“We have integrated mobile money wallets in over 8 countries. online banking payments, direct debits from the European Union and United States and even regional payment options like China union pay, Boleta in Brazil and our user friendly platform PayWay in Uganda’ assures Kenneth the founder and CEO of DusuPay.

Essentially DusuPay are pushing towards online merchants all over africa never needing any other payment alternatives to process online transactions

Using DusuPay, businesses, merchants of individuals in Africa can accept payments from anyone all over the world, to their Mobile Money wallets or ready for withdrawal to their bank accounts without consulting an agent. By bypassing the agent, DusuPay eliminates a step in the chain of command – if you will – and makes it easier and faster for people to access their funds. Opening up an account with DusuPay is as easy as withdrawing money via the ATM. All you need is an active phone number that will be registered as an account

 

A sign showing a DusuPay merchant
A sign showing a DusuPay merchant

DusuPay offers a variety of products to its users that range from;DusuPay Here a product that deals with local businesses including restaurants, Boutiques, Saloons, Hotels and all these accept all cashless modes of payments right on the DusuPay website.

The other product is DusuPay merchant accounts that accept all cashless modes of payment on your website and of course powered by the DusuPay on a personal website. With all these amazing offers from DusuPay, one doesn’t have to haggle walking to tellers or agents to have their transactions completed, DusuPay got you covered.

Adding Icing to the cake, DusuPay also makes it possible for one to transact even when they are offline making that a tick in our hard-earning MBs economy. Regardless of the fact that the payment platform focuses on connecting traditional banking to online and electronic payments, it also has a provision that offers offline alternatives.

Interface of a DusuPay form
Interface of a DusuPay form

In case you don’t a valid bank account and you are only a mere mobile money subscriber, the good news from DusuPay is that you can still access your funds without signing up for an account by buying a cash voucher from an agent and entering the scratch code along with the phone number into the DusuPay interface. Do this and a guarantee of your money is assured.

With DusuPay, you can as well retrieve your money to pay for any services such as top up your phone, buy internet data or pay utility bills. This means, for example Ugandans with dual residency could easily pay their utility bills even while out of the country, which immensely increases both convenience and efficiency.

Talk about Security

The DusuPay website is hosted by Microsoft’s one of the most expensive and secure servers in the world; Azure and it has an https which makes it hard to be hacked hence making users money secure and safe while carrying out transactions.

Hellofood Highlights Basic Concepts about Diabetes for World Health Week

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Brian Code
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A study by the World Health Organization (WHO), states that the number of people living with diabetes has nearly quadrupled since 1980 to 422 million adults, with most living in developing countries and because of this WHO marked world health day 7 April by calling for action on diabetes.  As the world shines light on world health issues, with diabetes being the main focus, Hellofood Uganda with the help from resolution insurance have shared the basic concepts in diabetes, knowing very well that the disease has major health and socioeconomic impacts especially and they would like to increase on its awareness, this is to empower everyone with information to enhance self-care, alongside healthy lifestyles.

Diabetes results when the body makes too little insulin or does not use insulin properly, allowing sugar levels to build up in the blood stream.

 

Preventions practices

1) Exercise regularly.

2) Eat a balanced, healthy diet.

3) Maintain healthy weight.

4) Limit takeaway and processed foods. ‘

5) Limit your alcohol intake, and quit smoking.

6) Control your blood pressure.

7) See your doctor for regular check-ups.

The three core Interventional Measures in Diabetes

Exercise                                          Diet                                                          Drugs

Exercise:

Be active a total of 30 minutes most days. Ask your doctor what activities are best for you. Exercise has the following benefits

1) Weight loss

2) Improves cholesterol and lowers Blood Pressure

3) Maintains good health of heart and blood vessels

4) Muscle cells are more sensitive to insulin and therefore control blood sugar levels and provide energy for muscles

Diet:

Follow the healthy eating plan that you and your doctor or dietitian have worked out.

Drugs:

Take your medicines as directed.

Other Important Measures in Diabetes.

1) Check your feet regularly for, blisters, sores, swelling, redness, or sore toenails

2)  Control your blood pressure and cholesterol

3)  Don’t smoke

 

Africell and Tecno launch the Tecno Boom J8 in Uganda

By
Boses Muhinda
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Africell Uganda this morning together with Tecno unveiled the latest Tecno offering, the high end Tecno Boom J8. This Techno J8 which is now available in Africell stores will cost only 499,000 and comes with a free 4G LTE simcard plus 3.5GB of data valid for one month. Also, TECNO is set to unveil its own mobile Operating system, HiOS which comes with launch of new TECNO Boom J8.

Africell which is ranked the number one telecom in terms in internet data speeds is lately partnering with smartphone manufacturers whose phones have the capability to run on faster operating systems. TECNO has also joined the league of mobile makers to launch their next-generation devices on customized android operating system. The announcement by TECNO of its customized version of the Android 5.1 lollipop OS, unveiled on its latest TECNO BOOM J8 music smart phone on March 31, 2016 raised the bar for the leading mobile devices maker in terms of user experience for its end users.

At the launch of the new TECNO BOOM J8 music, Hong Ji, the Tecno Mobile Operator Sales Manager said the mobile giant TECNO has been working hard to create a signature experience on all its mobile devices that users easily identify and associate with the TECNO brand, making it stand out of the clutter. Hong said “What HiOS has helped us achieve is a unique user experience, one like no other. TECNO users can now tell their favorite brand by merely interacting with its UI. HiOS feels different and acts different; a lot more intuitive than the android OS 5.1 which forms its backbone operating system,”

The new TECNO BOOM J8 is TECNO’s first device to host the brand’s signature HiOS operating system. The music smart phone which is an upgrade on predecessor TECNO Boo, J7 boasts 5.5” HD IPS touch screen, 13MP auto-focus rear/ 5.0MP front camera with Dual LED flash, extra 16GB ROM expandable to 128GB and powered by 2GB RAM. You can find the full specs here

Milad Khairallah, Africell’s Chief Commercial Officer said Africell was committed to giving their customers the best of the telecom service. “We will continue to unveil products, services and innovative give-aways for our subscribers who have made us the number one

telecom network in Uganda. The launch of high-end brands like Tecno with our service is part of that belief and commitment”

Milad closed it off “Africell is the network for those customers who want innovation, quality of data and voice at a reasonable price”

Africell Uganda started off the smart phone launches last August when they put up the iDROID Royal V7, before unveiling the first Luganda Smart phone – the iDROID Simu in December. Africell’s core strength has always been in the line of data offerings, thus the need for smartphones to enable their customers enjoy the network.

 

 

Facebook launches ‘Facebook Live’ for all users in the US

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Boses Muhinda
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Facebook decided to roll out it’s ‘Facebook Live’ service to all its users. Previously the feature was only available to a few celebrities and media houses  to broadcast live events. Mark Zuckerberg the Facebook CEO posted on his wall that Facebook Live would be available to all users. He also said he will be live at 8:00pm (EAT) to answer questions related to Facebook’s latest feature.

“Live is like having a TV camera in your pocket. Anyone with a phone now has the power to broadcast to anyone in the world. When you interact live, you feel connected in a more personal way. This is a big shift in how we communicate, and it’s going to create new opportunities for people to come together – Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook Live also introduced new features such as Live Filters,  Live Reactions, Replay, Live comments, Facebook Live Map on desktop and a dedicated place on Facebook’s mobile app. The Live map will enable people visualise public live broadcasts that are happening around the world. The dedicated icon appears after a server side trigger meaning it will gradually roll out to users.

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Facebook has started a battle against the Twitter owned Periscope which has enabled users to live broadcast events using its iOS and Android apps. Well Facebook happens to have a larger number of users, 1.59 billion monthly active users to be precise, which may be an advantage over Periscope.

Facebook Live works on Desktops, iOS and Android and live videos can be embedded on websites. So media houses now have an option of broadcasting events live using Facebook and reacher a bigger target audience.

What it means for Uganda

We have social pack data bundles that offer unlimited access to WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter which might make shooting and viewing Live Videos easy. If the telecoms don’t find a block to this then we are bound to enjoy the feature. Imagine a certain television uses Facebook Live broadcast a live broadcast to all its’ viewers. Even those with a small data bundle will be able to view this footage.

However if their is no data or internet subsidy to this then the adaptation rate will be low because our data bundles are very expensive. It’s a matter of time till we see which Live broadcast service will win over the most users. For now its a muddy battle between Hangouts on Air, Periscope, Facebook Live and Youtube.

 

Whatsapp makes messaging secure, adds end-to-end encryption  

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Brian Code
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World’s popular instant messaging platform, Whatsapp has added a vital update to its application that will see users feel more secure when communicating via the application. Whatsapp has today announced a new technological development that makes users enjoy full protection during private communication with the full end-to-end encryption feature.

The latest version of whatsapp will use security technology that will make it secure for two users to have a peaceful conversation without worrying of a third party or being intercepted.

Encryption ensures that only a message’s sender and recipient can read messages, stopping them from being intercepted on their journey.

From now on while using the application, when you and your contacts use the latest version of the app, every call you made, and every message, photo, video, file, and voice message sent, is end-to-end encrypted by default, including group chats.

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We have seen people starting to love using different applications like Telegram to enjoy some security but surely this has been sorted. From now on, when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one can see inside that message. Not cyber-criminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even whatsapp itself. End-to-end encryption helps make communication via Whatsapp private – sort of like a face-to-face conversation.

The giant instant messaging platform Whatsapp shared a statement announcing their update and stressed;

“We live in a world where more of our data is digitized than ever before. Every day we see stories about sensitive records being improperly accessed or stolen. And if nothing is done, more of people’s digital information and communication will be vulnerable to attack in the years to come. Fortunately, end-to-end encryption protects us from these vulnerabilities.”

Surely Ugandans will need to worry about the possibility of being spied on by whoever is in a manipulative position.

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