Author: CraigWilson

Jaguar has revealed local pricing for its forthcoming I-Pace range of electric SUVs slated to go on sale in South Africa early next year. There will be four versions of the vehicle, with the cheapest — the I-Pace S — starting at R1,687,200 and the most expensive — the I-Pace First Edition that’ll only be available for a year from launch — starting at R1,920,700. The pricing for the rapid home charging stations will follow closer to launch, the company says. In addition to the entry level and top-end models, Jaguar’s also bringing the I-Pace SE (from R1,745,400) and the…

It’s been a week since Huawei launched its Mate 20 Pro smartphone in London, and early indications are its triple rear camera setup might make it this year’s phone camera to beat. We’ve been snapping all sorts of test shots to see whether the results live up to Huawei’s marketing hype, and off the bat we can tell you this: with its ultra-wide, wide, zoom and macro chops, it’s so flexible a shooter it’d make a yogi master (or assassin) jealous. The images below have been uploaded at full size for the pixel peepers among you who might want to…

There’s a common thread that runs between all of the workplaces of the worlds biggest workplaces, from Apple’s shiny new HQ in California, to Google’s Zurich offices, and as we’ve now seen, Facebook’s offices in London. They’re designed to make it as easy as possible for staff to do their jobs. Which can also mean they’re designed to be so pleasant one doesn’t mind working the long hours being on the bleeding edge of contemporary tech culture often demands. Facebook actually has two offices in England’s biggest city, the one we visited in Rathbone Place in the Fitzrovia neighbourhood, which…

Huawei unveiled three new handsets and a watch at its global launch event in London today. The star of the show is the Mate 20 Pro. It’s flanked by the regular Mate 20 and the gaming-focused Mate 20X. Finally, there’s the new Huawei Watch GT, the details of which leaked a few days ago. Out of the handsets, we’re only getting the Mate 20 Pro in South Africa, so that’s what we’re going to focus on… but don’t worry, there’s plenty to say about it. First things second If you’ve been itching for an upgrade, know you’re a flag-bearing member…

We know that, infuriatingly, Google doesn’t offer its hardware in South Africa, and if you want to get it you’ll either have to buy it from an importer, or bring it in yourself. But we also know that doesn’t mean you don’t want to know about it. Which is why we’re bringing you this round up of the announcements from Google’s Made By event for 2018. While the rumour mill was most excited about the Pixel 3 handsets, it’s the Google Hub that we’re the most interested in getting our mitts on, so we’re going to start there. https://youtu.be/J6qbVlCKKU0 Hubber…

Reports emerged yesterday that some Israeli WhatsApp users’ accounts have been hacked, and that the problem is sufficiently widespread that the Israeli government has seen fit to send out a warning about it. Leave a message The hack exploits the fact that many consumers never change their voicemail PIN from the default ‘0000’ or ‘1234’. Hackers use WhatsApp’s security mechanism whereby it calls users with a spoken verification code when those sent by SMS are unsuccessful. By timing the requests for verification codes for late at night, or other times when they know users are away from their phones, they…

The world’s largest social network, Facebook, has announced that it has partnered with Africa Check and French news organisation AFP to provide third-party fact-checking services in an effort to combat fake news and other false or misleading content on the platform in South Africa. The company also launched third-party fact checking in Kenya yesterday. If you’re even remotely interesting in South African news and current affairs you’ve probably heard of Africa Check. It’s a fact-checking organisation based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Facebook won’t comment on the terms of the contract with the Africa Check or AFP,…

Do you know what the Android Enterprise Recommended programme is? No? Neither did we. Which is why we got Patrick Henchie, head of product and operations for sub-Saharan Africa at HMD Global (the company behind Nokia’s revival as a phone maker), to come into the studio and talk us through it. We also talked about Nokia’s return to the minds (and pockets) of consumers, why Android One membership matters, and the place for Nokia phones in a world where R30,000 handsets aren’t unusual. https://soundcloud.com/user-492019255/stuffed-ep-08-patrick-henchie-from-hmd-global-on-android-enterprise-recommended Catch up on previous episodes of Stuffed over here. Or subscribe to Stuffed in iTunes or via the podcast…

Unboxing videos are one of the curiosities of the internet. For reasons that largely elude us, people seem to love them. Maybe it’s the vicarious equivalent of unwrapping presents on your birthday. Maybe it’s the thrill that only well-designed packaging can deliver. Or maybe the internet is just a strange place and we shouldn’t overthink things. Whatever the reason, we’ve gone ahead and shot a pair of unboxing videos of Apple’s latest kit — the iPhone XS and the Apple Watch Series 4 — for your viewing pleasure. Both devices went on sale locally today. First up, there’s the iPhone…

Another day, another bout of bad news for the world’s most popular social network, Facebook. The company has announced that it was the subject of a massive breach that affected almost 50 million accounts. In a post on the company’s digital newsroom, VP of product management Guy Rosen says Facebook’s engineering team first discovered the security issue on Tuesday, 25 September. Who’s looking at you, kid “[I]t’s clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted ‘View As’, a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else,” Rosen explains. “This allowed them to steal…