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With the official launch of Apple’s iPhone mere weeks or months away (Vodacom won’t say which), an increasing number of South Africans are asking: “Should I wait?” Those with contract upgrades due are also wondering out loud about what to choose.

This largely depends on two things: can you afford it and do you really want to use everything the iPhone offers?

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I want a new cellphone. My MTN contract has been due for an upgrade for the past three months, but I’ve been stalling.

In short, I want the “perfect” cellphone … if, indeed, there is such a thing. I hope I’m speaking for the many who are facing the exact same dilemma. I’m not 16 years old so “clever” gimmicks don’t impress me. Nor do pink phones Or phones trying to be iPods. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t want a gold phone designed by Dolce & Gabbana or one called “Chocolate” either. Even if Chocolate phones now come in pink.

No, I don’t want a Carl Zeiss lens. Who purposefully takes 3 megapixel photos with their phone?! If you’ve got the few thousand rand needed to purchase one of these super camera phones, surely you already own a digital camera? Yes, you’ll want to take one or two opportunistic snaps at some-or-other late night out, but do you really need a lens that takes up half the size of the phone?

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Something that’s irritated me for a while is the pronounciation of the Skype/Kazaa founders’ new web video platform. Whenever I find myself with techie-types, the conversation inevitably ends up with some reference to Joost. Perhaps some of the older people want to show they’re still “down with it”.

Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis don’t know Joost van der Westhuizen. (more…)

Two men spearheading the revolution speak candidly about BCX, competition and recent management resignations…
One gets a strange feeling when you walk into Telkom’s sprawling National Business Solutions Centre in Centurion. This atmosphere is quite unlike the overwhelming sense of bureaucracy at Telkom Towers in Pretoria.

It’s almost as if the change is being led from here. The building is at the end of a short road in an area unimaginatively named TechnoPark. Most don’t even know it exists. (more…)