Author: Brett Venter

When you think of Apple, you don’t often think of enterprise services. Apple Business, recently launched by the premium(ish, these days) hardware maker, promises just that. The new platform launches on 16 April this year. When it does, it should let users “manage [their] organisation’s devices, apps, and accounts. After that, it gets drearily technical. That’s why your company pays someone else to deal with this sort of thing. You don’t think network and IT administrators are paid for fiddling with the easy stuff, do you? The Apple Business End Much like Microsoft’s raft of corporate services, Apple’s new platform…

If you’ve been eying the Unihertz Titan 2 Elite — like we have — you’ll know the phone became available via Kickstarter earlier this week. That means pricing is available and it’s… acceptable. So acceptable that Unihertz has (at the time of writing) managed to raise $2.75 million on a meagre $100,000 goal. The phone is coming out. Generally, Kickstarter backers assume at least some risk, but most of the Chinese company’s recent phone launches have used the platform to secure pre-orders. So there’s no worry on that score. But there is a slight problem for South African fans. Shipping.…

Samsung has just launched its newest smartphones in South Africa. It’s time to look to the future, then, and that future may include the Galaxy Fold 8 Wide. If the title isn’t enough of a clue, it’s supposed to be a wider version of the Galaxy Fold 8. That one’s supposed to launch later this year, and the Wide incarnation could appear alongside. As is typical for Samsung, nobody in that hemisphere can keep a secret. Visuals created from the apparently official CAD files for both handsets have appeared on Android Headlines, helped by leaker OnLeaks (it’s in the name).…

It’s been a little under a year since the last time Netflix raised prices in South Africa. The newest price increase from the streamer is officially only for the United States, but it’s probably not going to stay that way. Based on last year, the American price increase isn’t going to stay localised. Last year, the US saw prices go up in January. South Africa followed suit a few months later. The current cost increase will probably follow a similar path here at home. Ahoy there, Netflix Everything on the platform will get $1 (R20) and $2 (R35) more expensive.…

A company called Ganance has developed a way to turn almost any wristwatch, from a Citizen to a Rolex, into a smartwatch. Called The Heir, it’s a little disc that fits to the base of your treasured timepiece and adds new functions. Unlike the Ollie Watch One, there’s no full rebuild needed. You won’t have to open the casing or stick anything in. And, if you want it gone, it’ll just… come off. Heir we go again The Heir (the ‘The’ is part of its name) adds a selection of sensors to a conventional wristwatch, upskilling it into something smarter.…

Apple likes to move its technological advances along, but its smartphone camera upgrades move slower than most. Maybe. A new report claims that Apple will eventually make the jump to 200MP camera sensors in its iPhones, with the likely starting point being the iPhone 19 Pro. Which, if you’re paying attention, isn’t this year. 2026 will see the launch of the iPhone 18 lineup. But a leaker out of China reckons that Apple is eying the massive sensor for the following year, in 2027. 200MP/how? The rumour comes from a generally reliable Chinese supply chain leaker, Digital Chat Station (via…

The end of last year saw Death Stranding’s Kojima Productions in one of the weirdest product partnerships we’ve ever encountered. The game featuring that guy from The Boondock Saints paired up with the Dnsys Z1 exoskeleton to boost human movement without requiring internal surgery. If you had enough cash and you were quick enough, you too could have owned a limited-run Dnsys Z1 exoskeleton augment. Given how fast the first 100 sold out, even at R27,000, you might have a hard time nabbing one when the second batch goes on sale today. Death Stranding your wallet The Z1 exoskeleton is an…

One of the best things about fitness brand Polar is that South Africans always have access to new stuff immediately. Take the Polar Street X, which is newly announced and already on sale in this country. There was no wait time — it simply… turned up. That’s a good thing. Unlike the Polar Loop, this one’s designed for more conventional users. You know, the kind that likes a screen and buttons. Something interactive. Plus, the Street X has a solid set of features sitting under all that toughened glass. Street X watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqjRGz87LCw Polar’s newest is a shade chunky at…

Taken logically, smartphones… kind of suck. They’re massive time sinks, both easy to pick up and hard to put down. Meadow, an American company, has a slightly different vision of the ubiquitous communication device. It involves less doomscrolling. It also involves buying the phone and paying a monthly subscription fee, but that’s fine because it’s only available in the United States. But it’s an interesting concept that other companies could exploit on the international stage. A phone that isn’t going to spiral you into algorithm-based depression, but it still has navigation? How novel. Relaxing in the Meadow As you might…

If you ever have the urge to recreate the opening scene to Kung Fury, you’ll need a boombox. An American company’s version, the BB-777, will let you concentrate on your cop-car skateboard flip since the major prop work is sorted out. Bumpboxx, a Californian audio outfit, put its BB-777 boombox up on Kickstarter a little earlier this week. The modern take on a 1980s classic was looking for $50,000 in funding. It secured it almost immediately, garnering $2.6 million. It could be worth taking a closer look at. Flight BB-777 takes off Bumpboxx’s audio device combines serious retro functions with…