Sony has finally unveiled the PS5 price as well as when the console will go on sale. The standard PS5 costs $499, while the digital disc-less model is $100 less – at $399. The price of the duo was announced yesterday, precisely a week after Microsoft’s Xbox Series Console price revelation. The Series X costs $499, same as the standard PS5, while the small Series S console costs $299. However, Sony’s approach is quite different from Microsoft because its two next-gen consoles are almost identical. The only difference, according to the company, is the Blu-ray disc. PS5 fans won’t have…
Author: Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala has been writing about technology for over 2 years(and counting). He writes about different topics in the consumer tech space. He loves streaming music, programming, and gaming during downtimes.
Apple’s popular smartwatch series, Apple Watch, has just got an upgrade. Called the Apple Watch Series 6, the new smartwatch now improves on where its predecessor left with a new sensor. Apple Watch Series 6 now can measure your blood oxygen – in just 15 seconds, the company said. It also can track your blood oxygen in the background. Besides the new sensor, the new watch also brings a new feature called Family Setup, solely aimed at parents. It allows parents to take over control of their children’s smartwatch and keep tabs on them. As a parent, you can set…
During its Time Flies event, American tech giant, Apple, unveiled new hardware devices, excluding the iPhone 12 series, and a couple of new services. Surprisingly, Apple, for the first time since 2018, also revealed their sales numbers of the iPad. Speaking at the event, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company had sold over 500 million iPads in the last decade. The Curpetino-based company had previously stated it won’t reveal sales numbers of of iPhones, iPads, and Macs in earnings reports. According to the research firm, Canalys, Apple is the world’s top-selling tablet maker currently with over 14 million units…
At its Timeless Event held virtually yesterday, Apple unveiled a slew of products as well as services. Apple One was one of them, a new service slated to launch later this year. Apple One bundles several services from the company, including Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade, Apple News Plus, iCloud, and the newly revealed Apple Fitness Plus under a single month-to-month price. It comes in three tiers with variable prices and different limitations. On the low end, the least you will have to pay is $14.95 up to $29.95 a month for more features and services. Pricing Apple…
The short-video form competition is still going strong. After doing initial testing, YouTube is now ready to publicize Shorts. For the uninitiated, YouTube Shorts is a short video form feature that rivals TikTok and Instagram’s Reesl. “Shorts is a new short-form video experience for creators and artists who want to shoot short, catchy videos using nothing but their mobile phones,” the company says. Shorts will be 15 seconds long at maximum, just like Instagram’s Reels. Creators will be able to create short-form videos via Shorts with an ability to tweak the speed, add some music, and leverage a timer and…
Surprise! Samsung has another Galaxy Unpacked event coming. The South Korean tech company already held two Galaxy Unpacked events this year, launching new iterations of its consumer products, but there’s still one more to go. Galaxy Unpacked For Every Fan will be hosted on September 23rd at 17:00. In case you haven’t caught what rumor mills are saying, Samsung plans to unveil the Galaxy S20 Fan Edition. It will be a slight upgrade to the Galaxy S20 launched earlier this year at CES before the world went into a coma. Like any other product launch at this time, the event…
PUBG Corporation, the maker of “PLAYER UNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS” battle royale game, has been forced to make some tough decisions to curtail the India ban. In a statement, the South Korean gaming company says it will take full publishing responsibilities for the game in India, one of their lucrative markets. “In light of recent developments, PUBG Corporation has made the decision to no longer authorize the PUBG MOBILE franchise to Tencent Games in India,” PUBG said. PUBG was banned in India, together with over 100 Chinese apps, over security-related concerns, escalating geopolitical tensions between the two countries. The Indian IT ministry…
As expected, Huawei yesterday unveiled the new iteration of EMUI, EMUI 11, based on open-source Android 11. Huawei boasts its continuous research in human-factors based design will deliver the best UX experience on EMUI. It includes fully customizable Always-on display with immersive art designs. A couple of Always-on display styles are also animated. EMUI 11 also incorporates smooth animations, gesture navigations, and harmonized vibrations and ringtones. The new iteration of EMUI also offers smart multi-window support, with floating windows and task heads, and enhanced multi-screen collaboration. On the former, EMUI 11 lets you customize the floating window size. And there’s…
Barely three days after the Android 11 launch, Google has followed it up with the conservative counterpart. Android 11(Go edition) is now official. It will start rolling out on new devices with less than 2GB of memory next month. What’s New Android 11 Go Edition borrows inspiration from the fully-fledged Android 11. The significant improvements, per se, are in terms of performance and privacy. Like in Android 11, the Go edition also includes one-time permissions to sensitive device microsensors like the microphone, camera, and GPS. This offers better privacy by giving users more control over these sensitive things. By granting…
[Update: 11/09] – Apple offers an indefinite extension Epic Games now says that Apple won’t pull the plug,. The Fortnite creator says Apple has given them an “indefinite extension”. Still, the game studio is advising users to update their accounts for “Sign in with Apple” removal. https://twitter.com/FortniteStatus/status/1304161432888643584 Fortnite users will no longer use Apple’s Sign-in System when logging to the game app starting tomorrow. In the latest development on the Apple Epic battle, players of Fortnite won’t use Apple IDs for signing in — because Apple will no longer allow it. Epic is now advising those who use Apple IDs…