In March, we saw Google make an unexpected announcement – the company is entering the gaming industry. The search engine giant announced its cloud-gaming platform, Google Stadia, that’ll run exclusively online. Basically it’s Netflix, but for games. And now we know what internet speeds you’ll need. The news… isn’t good. For South Africans, that is.
Huawei South Africa revealed its first official South African online store at its P30-series launch event this week, along with pricing for the new range.
The highly anticipated Huawei P30 Pro and its buddies are now available in South Africa. MTN South Africa details its contract offers available.
It’s turning into a decent week for Nokia fans. We’ve already taken a look at the Nokia X71 (not a spy-plane) and now we’ve got local details for the Nokia 9 PureView. Specifically its availability and how much it’s going to cost. And it’s surprisingly inexpensive.
Huawei has officially introduced the final member of its P30 series of smartphones: the Huawei P30 Lite. We’ve already seen what the P30 Pro can do (except we haven’t really seen what it can do, yet — the low-light camera performance is said to be amazing) and the P30 is no slouch either. The P30 Lite, on the other hand… that’s the budget contender and it’s looking quite er… contentious.
We’ve been following the fortunes of the Bloodhound SSC, the rocket-powered car that was supposed to hit South Africa in order to break the land-speed record, almost from the very start. We thought that all was lost when the project was delayed, and then delayed some more, and then ran out of money but it’s back. Bloodhound SSC has become Bloodhound LSR (which stands for ‘Land Speed Record’) and has picked up a new sponsor: Ian Melett.
Honor, the standalone brand that sprung forth from the fertile smartphone valley that is Huawei, launched its newest smartphone for the South African market this evening. The event took place at Vodacom World in Midrand, appropriate because the device, the Honor 10 Lite, is going to be exclusive to Vodacom.
So you’re considering a virtual reality headset, are you? Printer and laptop maker HP are hoping to tempt you away…
Hey, you know what we really need? A bunch of highly-specific smartwatches, tailored to one of several very specific activities. Just kidding, you never need anything like that. Unless you’re making a living doing said activities, we guess. Wanting them, though? That’s another story. And we certainly want to give Garmin’s new MARQ line of connected tool watches a closer look.
Microsoft has brought new Azure datacentres to South Africa, based in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The datacentres are the company’s “…first enterprise-grade datacenters in Africa”, and will be instrumental in connecting the country (and the continent) with Microsoft’s services.