Author: Trent Meikle

Remember when Realme dropped a special edition Naruto-themed smartphone? Probably not, because the Chinese smartphone brand hadn’t yet established itself in South Africa. No matter, we’ve since absolved ourselves of any salty residuals, instead focussing on the company’s recent efforts. Say hello to the Realme C67. Teetering on the good end of ‘mid-range’, the C67 is Realme’s latest smartphone to land on South Africa’s shelves. It’ll fetch R7,500 or R400/m if you pick it up on an MTN contract. Customers under the Vodacom umbrella will have to wait until April, unfortunately. No fakers here If you asked Realme, they’d tell…

It’s finally arrived — the FA Cup quarter-finals will be taking place this weekend. After a thrilling campaign, only eight teams remain to battle it out for that top spot; Coventry, Wolves, Newcastle, Leicester City, Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool and the biggest team in the world: Man United (That’s debatable — Ed). And if you’re at all worried about the seedy pub around the corner favouring the weekend’s sparse Premier League fixtures rather than the clash between Liverpool and Man United, stop it. Showmax has just announced that it’ll be broadcasting the Emirates FA Cup quarter-finals this weekend – with…

Let’s talk about the birds and the bees. Provided the birds and the bees are The Witcher 3 and Assassin’s Creed. When a studio loves two games very much, they spend time alone in the studio to conceive something entirely new. That’s essentially what Team Ninja has done with Rise of the Ronin — and we love it. At least, we love what we’ve seen so far. Don’t set your heart on Rise of the Ronin being a carbon copy of The Witcher 3 or Assassin’s Creed, though. It’s an amalgamation of plenty of games — Ghost of Tsushima, Sekiro, and Nioh prominent among them — all smushed together to create…

While FNB is hard at work bolstering its vehicle licence renewal service, Pick n Pay is already throwing in the towel just two years after it launched its own renewal utility according to MyBroadband. The grocer has yet to confirm why it ended support for the service, but some hints point towards a possible revamp — one that’ll hopefully lower its high costs and offer more practical users. Pick n Pay renewals no more Pick n Pay did not announce the service’s departure from its bouquet of offerings traditionally, instead contacting MyBroadband in an attempt to remove the retailer’s name from the…

You might think that losing out on access to electricity for ±4 hours per day would constitute some sort of break on Eskom’s monthly fees. That might be how they do it in more developed countries, but nothing will stop Eskom from collecting its annual hike, showing up right on time ahead of the 1 April 2024 hike date. Eskom’s taking us for a hike It’s not as though Eskom is coming out of left field with this one. These plans have been in the works since early 2023 when The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) approved a…

UPDATE 12/03/2024: FNB South Africa has confirmed that the “promotional time period” mentioned in the press release began yesterday, 11 March 2024, and will run until 30 June 2024. Imagine still visiting the post office or somewhere similar to renew your car’s license when the FNB app exists. It’s possible you weren’t aware of FNB’s abilities to get your license renewal sorted, nor that it only cost R100 for a renewal. That was the headline in November, anyway. Now, FNB has cut that price to R70 per renewal for a “promotional time period”. If you’ve been doing your best impression…

Samsung has just unveiled its Galaxy A55 and Galaxy A35, drawing some attention away from the altogether flashier (and only two months old) AI-bolstered Galaxy S24 lineup. The A-series duo is just as — if not more — important than the S24 series because it demonstrates “Samsung’s ongoing commitment to making the best of mobile innovations available to everyone.” In other words; this is the South Korean’s mid-ranger portfolio, garnering a few thousand less than even the most basic S24 out there. But we’ll get into all the pricing later. South Africa doesn’t yet have official pricing, but we’ve got…

X may be coming to a TV near you soon Elon Musk still hasn’t given up on the idea of turning X into an ‘everything app’, recently adding phone and video calls into what was once Twitter. Now the app is apparently expanding to… TVs. Yup. According to a Fortune report (via Bloomberg) over the weekend, the eccentric billionaire wants people tuning in to, uh, Tucker Carlson, we guess, on Samsung and Amazon TVs as early as next week. Fortune doesn’t name its sources, only citing an unnamed employee within the company, but this is Musk we’re talking about. Of course he’s…

Sunday, 10 March, is MAR10 Day. You know the one. Mario Mario (yes, that is his name), the Brooklyn-based plumber who can’t seem to land a date. It’s not his birthday or anything — that’ll be 11 October — but it is Mario Day. MAR10. You get it. And South Africa is joining in on the fun this weekend. The fun involved includes a decent store-wide sale on Switch consoles, games, and accessories — both online and in-store (check out what we thought of that) — and a competition that’ll see someone pick up a Switch bundle worth R10,000. So… a…

Despite what headlines may say, South Africa’s petrol price for next month won’t deliver a fresh batch of pain when April arrives. Sure, that appeared to be the consensus from South Africa’s Central Energy Fund (CEF) a couple of days ago, but according to a fresh batch of predictions from the energy company, far saner increases are on the horizon. Don’t set those hopes up too high just yet. The country won’t exactly be getting off scot-free by the time April rolls around, but the figures down below are a far cry from the R1.14/l increase that’s been bandied about…