Author: Trent Meikle

Apple, still coming down from the high of last week’s riveting Severance episode, just dropped the official Apple TV app for Android devices – particularly smartphones, tablets, and foldables – something that subscribers have begged for ever since Lumon Apple launched its in-house streamer nearly six years ago now. Absolute cinema Before, those hoping to see Silo or Slow Dogs were forced to make do with Apple TV on their smartphone or tablet’s browser or resort to watching it on their TV – where the app has been available for some time, even on Android-based TV boxes. It wasn’t exactly a detriment to the platform’s…

It’s about time, Sony. After weeks of hearing various insiders and tipsters proclaim the forbidden gospel that PlayStation had something big lined up for February, we’ve finally received confirmation straight from the horse’s mouth. Announced in a blog post, PlayStation has a State of Play lined up for midnight tonight, local time. Annoyingly, this isn’t a Showcase – a larger, longer event that Sony typically reserves for when it has multiple big somethings cooking in the pipeline. The State of Play is usually a shorter, sweeter event focussing on the games landing in the coming months. Don’t get too down. Sony…

Having spent the better part of 2024 in the company of Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 13 Pro+, we were keen to see what Xiaomi had in store for this year. At a launch event in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 11 February, Xiaomi announced the new Redmi Note 14 series comprising five devices – Redmi Note 14 (4G + 5G), 14 Pro (4G+5G), and the 14 Pro+ 5G. Xiaomi hasn’t wasted any time getting these out to the public, unusually selling a few models through the regular storefronts a whole week before the official launch. Xiaomi took the opportunity to put the spotlight…

The PlayStation Store is no longer the slop-filled wasteland that it was once. Previously you couldn’t get past the home page without first encountering some low-effort ‘game’ designed to bolster your trophy list and take up valuable storage. Now, Sony has delisted several of these titles that took their developers all of five minutes to make, using a mixture of recycled assets and in some cases, AI. Good riddance Titles such as Backrooms Brotherhood, Supermarket Simulator Pro, and Bodycam Shooter are just a few of the games released in the past few months by one of the biggest contributors to the issue, RandomSpin.…

Now that the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has passed judgement on the official fuel price adjustments in South Africa for February, we turn our attention towards March 2025. Surely, we thought, after two months of back-to-back increases for both petrol and diesel, there’d be some sort of reprieve, right? How wrong we were. Bad news for petrol prices The Central Energy Fund (CEF) has continued to pump its daily snapshots, offering curious South Africans a glance at the upcoming petrol price changes that could either save or hurt their wallets. It’s worth noting that the CEF’s figures…

Apple’s got a big week ahead Apple, preferring not to be left out of the conversation so dominated by Samsung at the beginning of the year, plans to reveal the iPhone SE 4 soon, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. We’ll have to wait for Apple to confirm an official release date – though Gurman says it will still be released this February. If Gurman is correct, Apple could be targeting a reveal as soon as this week. Unlike the Big Fruit Company’s flagship devices that ship globally like clockwork, the entry-level SE range takes things at a slower pace. The third-gen…

In a bit of a comedown from the absurdly expensive R40,000 X200 Pro, Vivo is back with the release of the Y19s, a smartphone sitting firmly on the other end of the price spectrum. Vivo has ditched the fanfare and skipped straight to release day with a solid budget device we’re keen to get our hands on. “We’re excited to unveil another captivating product in the rapidly evolving smartphone market. Vivo has always been an advocate for style and innovation, continuously pushing the boundaries to make top-tier performance accessible and affordable. Vivo Y19s is an exemplary embodiment of this philosophy,…

DStv is finally feeling the sting of streaming. How else do you explain the numerous promotions and price decreases that have come our way? We’re not complaining. The Multichoice-owned broadcaster has thrown us another gift, announcing a new promotion that’ll have DStv Access and Compact customers living like kings. Easy access It’ll cost you, first, of course. R100, to be specific, on top of whatever deal you’ve struck up with DStv in the past. DStv Access customers on the decoder package, for instance, will pay the usual R140/m price – plus an extra R100 that’ll see them upgraded to the…

Sitting down to watch Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist should not be approached lightly. We’re not talking about the 3h35m runtime (which includes a hard-coded and very appreciated fifteen-minute intermission) but instead of the dour subject matter. Set in post-war America, The Brutalist follows the life of László Toth, a fictional architect played by the brilliant Adrien Brody, as he attempts to start a new life for himself. That’s the gist of it. We’ll be the first to admit that it doesn’t make for very nice reading, especially while the rest of the family scoures the various streaming services in search of a…

After months of setbacks, Amazon finally seems set to debut its long-awaited Alexa revamp, complete with artificial intelligence (AI) to make the disembodied voice just a little smarter than it was before. Amazon hasn’t said as much – at least not directly – but it has unveiled the invites for a press event taking place on 26 February. It’s there, in New York City, that Amazon is expected to unveil the upgrade. Although the invites don’t immediately give the game away, sticking with simple phrases like “Join us,” “Save the date,” and “You’re invited” – a couple of clever folks…