Android

This post first appeared on Khophi’s Dev and was written by Rexford Nkansah Google PhotoScan is the new Google app in the block to help you bring those old rusty photos of yours to life. If you’re into digitizing all historic photos of yours, of the family, or for a Continue Reading

Google’s target of penetrating the emerging markets with relatively cheaper Android phones led to the birth of the Android One Project. Google has partnered with various equipment manufacturers to provide phones with decent specifications at affordable prices. Today, we review the Infinix Note 2, a device under the Project. Specifications Continue Reading

When the OnePlus One (OPO), touted as the “2014 Flagship Killer” was released, I scoffed. I wrote it off as one of those Chinese startups that will soon fade into oblivion. The creators of OPO designed it to compete with high-end flagship devices by offering similar specs at a much Continue Reading

The 3 day developer conference where Google reveals its future plans for technology to the world has wrapped up for 2016. Here are some of the announcements we found interesting from this year’s Google I/O conference: Google Assistant Google Assistant is a smarter, more conversational iteration of Google Now. With Continue Reading

Wheelo, a game developed by Agoru Studios, was crowned the ultimate winner of the recently ended MTN Apps Challenge Version 3.0 Competition in Accra. The group also walked away with a cool GH¢ 20,000 (US$ 5,200) cash price. We had the honor of interacting with Kwaku Tabiri, the lead developer Continue Reading

A screenshot, screen capture (or screen-cap), screen dump or screengrab is an image taken by a person to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, television, or other visual output device in use. Integrated Screenshot Capture was added to Android in version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), which is accomplished Continue Reading

Has someone ever borrowed your phone with the reason that they want to make a phone call and ended up browsing through your entire Photos, WhatsApp and Instagram? Yeah, me too, and I didn’t like it, but what could I do? Thanks to the folks at Mountain View, there is Continue Reading

Huawei’s flagship device, the Huawei P9, was officially launched in Ghana on the 14th and 15th of May. The event, taglined “Reinvent Smartphone Photography” allowed fans and enthusiasts to pose for photos with EL, the 2016 VGMA Artiste of the Year and the sassy Deborah Vanessa. I got my hands Continue Reading

Prisma, the smart filter app which went viral on iOS has made its official debut on the Play Store. Now, Android users have the opportunity to see what iOS users were excited about some weeks back. What sets Prisma apart from the numerous filter apps on the market is its Continue Reading

The events leading to the final release of Android 7.0 Nougat have been something else — from the multi-faceted super early Developer Preview releases to the public naming of Android N (Nkatie Cake over Nougat any day), this has been the most ‘exciting’ release yet. We laid our hands on Continue Reading

Once a while, it becomes necessary to do a factory reset on your device. A factory reset (or a master reset) is simply returning a device to how it used to be fresh out of the box.  It removes all user data such  as third party apps, call logs, messages, Continue Reading

In the recent past, the purpose of a mobile phone was to make and receive phone calls (and maybe send and receive text messages as well). Enter the era of smartphones, where we use our phones for surfing the internet, taking photos, watching videos of cats, gaming — almost everything Continue Reading