Author: Marcé

If you have ever felt the loneliness of disappearing into the void when your phone’s battery dies then this app is designed for you. Go and download Die With Me right now… App developer Dries Depoorter came up with the strange concept after being lost in a strange city, an idea which eventually turned into Die With Me: a chat-room based app that you can only access when your smartphone battery is on five percent or less. The app is available on iOS and Android to download now, but you will only be able to access it when you… er… when your…

…but start on three new handsets. Well, that was quick. A KGI analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, has noted that the iPhone X hasn’t been doing as well as expected. The analyst predicts that Apple will ship about 18 million units in the present quarter, lower than the 20 to 30 million others had estimated. This because the Chinese don’t like the notch? Yes… Apparently, Chinese customers prefer smartphones with larger displays and the iPhone X’s notch design means that effective screen real estate is less than what they would like, at least compared to the 5.5-inch Plus range. It is believed…

Yes, the rumours are true. Not even two years after Lionhead Studios closed, Microsoft have tasked the Playground group, the creators of the Forza Horizon games, with their next big task: to make a new Fable title. Don’t start kicking any chickens just yet, because Playground are still in the very early stages of production. So early that they cannot really comment on release dates or game details. Microsoft won’t comment at all, saying that they don’t do such a thing when it comes to rumour and speculation.  Microsoft is reportedly investing a lot in this title, however. Over 200 staff will apparently…

Next time you have to chat to your insurance broker or hair salon via WhatsApp their profiles will most probably pop up as a ‘ WhatsApp Business Account’. Yup, they just made WhatsApp more professional. The instant messaging company has launched WhatsApp Business, a service aimed at verifying business accounts and comes with a range of features aimed at helping everyone do business better. Some of the features include dedicated business profiles for details like email addresses, business descriptions, store addresses, and websites; smart messaging tools like greetings, quick replies, and away messages; and metrics for how many messages were…

The quirky and colourful MoveTime Family MT30 3G wearables have finally landed in South Africa, meaning that parents in SA can now keep track of their children’s whereabouts using some wristwear. Global mobile and tablet brand TCL, designed the MT30 smartwatch specifically for children, incorporating a smaller wristband and providing access to a limited number of apps and functionality. The main idea behind the MT30 is for parents to be able to keep track of their smartwatch-bearing children via GPS and geo-fencing. While the watch is designed mostly as a tool for parents, it is still intended as a “connected,…

We take a look at the Pictar iPhone camera grip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHnHMdMS7ao Review unit supplied by Miggo​. Shot using Fujifilm X-T2 and XT20 cameras c/o Fujifilm​.

This week several images of Microsoft’s second-gen Xbox Elite Wireless controller leaked online and based on what was shown we could be seeing some impressive upgrades. The first Xbox Elite Wireless controller, introduced by Microsoft at E3 in 2015, featured four interchangeable paddles at the rear, hair trigger locks, remappable buttons, and completely swappable components. This has been the first choice for Xbox One and PC gamers (with money) around the world since then. Now we (and the whole internet) have had a look at the new controller that was posted on Chinese site Baidu. The post consisted of an image of…

When we were youngsters, all we wanted were wheelies. But today’s children are a far tech-savvier and more demanding bunch. What children want today are mobile phones, which can be a pretty scary prospect for parents considering all the nastiness that’s out there, from pornography and graphic depictions of violence to cyber-bullying. Tariffic, which collates and compares cellphone contracts in South Africa, has just released a new contract offering called KidTech, aimed at ensuring parents can keep an eye on what their youngsters are doing on their mobile phones. A KidTech contract includes a Huawei P8 Lite smartphone with a Telkom FreeMe…

Gaming hardware company Razer is known for going overboard with their CES prototypes, and none of them really make it to market, but maybe Project Linda will… What’s Linda, you ask? On the second day of CES 2018 Razer presented a new prototype called Project Linda, which is a laptop dock for the Razer smartphone released in November last year. Unlike previous phone-powered laptop concepts like the Motorolla Atrix with Webtop and Samsung’s DeX, powered by the Galaxy S8, the Razer smartphone not only powers the laptop but doubles as a trackpad. Snug, like a pug in an Ugg The…

Lenovo brought a collection of new devices to CES 2018, including a set of devices aimed at making (virtual) reality better. The most interesting of these are the Mirage Solo Headset and Camera as well as the Lenovo C220 smart glasses. Show me the VR The Lenovo Mirage Solo is a virtual reality headset, based on Google’s Daydream technology, which combines immersive VR with a simple-to-use device. A simple-to-use standalone device, as the Mirage Solo doesn’t need a phone to function.  It incorporates its own Snapdragon 835 processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, as well as a microSD…