Author: Akhram Mohamed

I’m not sure if you seen or heard about this Lucky Hustle thing with Linkedin. If you haven’t, well best you read on.The Joburg based creative agency took a mysterious LinkedIn ban, not as a crisis but a casting call and held a fu*king funeral. Honestly, beyond the clever marketing of it all, there’s something deeply annoying about the situation. The thing is, we spend years building these digital footprints. You post the painstaking updates, you “engage,” you play by the invisible rules. Then on some random Tuesday, a bot in a fu*king server farm somewhere decides you don’t exist…

The smartphone market in South Africa is one of those things that looks simple until you’ve actually lived in it. I’ve spent the best part of 20 years living deep in that world and trust me, its far fro simple. From the outside it may look like the usual story. Samsung everywhere, Apple sitting at the top like a status symbol, a bunch of Chinese brands trying to break through, Huawei somehow still in the conversation, Honor starting to make some noise and Xiaomi hovering just outside relevance. But the more you look at it, the less it feels like…

The world before Apple, felt different I sometimes wonder if younger people realise just how strange technology used to feel. Not just about design or performance. It was Just… distant. Computers were these often intimidating boxes that lived primarily in office or lab spaces. A normal person didn’t casually sit down with one the way you open a laptop or check your phone today, well atleast I didn’t. They were the tools of trade for specialists. The engineers, programmers, the kind of people who understood things the rest of us didn’t. And then one day in someones garage, Apple came…

We are officially in your “tap your knuckle to pay” era. The company behind it, VezoPay, launched a payment ring last year that lets you leave your wallet and your phone at home, which sounds like the kind of headline that usually triggers my internal hype alarm, because we’ve been promised frictionless living so many times before that I’ve developed a mild allergy to the phrase. And yet. I actually dropped R2,500 and bought one. Specifically, the VezoPay X-Ring Wide. I’ve been using it for about two weeks now, not as a reviewer , but as a normal human moving…

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S26 series, bringing the new lineup made up of the Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra to South Africa with a familiar design DNA and a clear philosophy: refinement over revolution. In many ways, the Galaxy S26 series feels like it should be called an S25s. This is not throwing shade at Samsung. Rather it’s an acknowledgement of where Samsung is right now. They’re optimising experience and not chasing features just for the sake of it. A familiar design by choice Visually and ergonomically, the Galaxy S26 series sticks closely to the formula established by the S24 and S25. The design language…

HONOR just can’t seem to slow down. If anything, the brand is accelerating especially in South Africa, actively chasing Samsung’s crown. Following the recent launch of the X9d mid-ranger and the announcement of the Magic8 Pro, which lands in South Africa on 1 March, HONOR has now issued an early teaser for its next big statement device. The HONOR Magic V6 foldable, set to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 1 March. Pricing and local availability have not yet been confirmed, but the intent is obvious. HONOR is building momentum across every major smartphone category, and the Magic V6 looks set to be the brand’s…

When a phone brand  promises durability and endurance, it usually means “we dropped it once in a lab” and then you spend the rest of your ownership life praying it doesn’t fall off the couch. So when Honor sent over the X9d for us to review, instead of babying it like we usually do, I did the opposite. I treated it the way you would expect to treat a durable phone. Badly. I dropped it from just above waist height, screen first directly onto tiles. I shot it eight times with a Tippman TMC paintball gun – (that’s a velocity…

I keep thinking about how strange this moment is, not just for Nintendo, but for anyone who still buys consoles with a bit of childlike excitement left in them. On paper, this should be uncomplicated. The Switch 2 is a hit. It was a full-on sprint out the gate. Seventeen million units in a few months is the kind of number you usually see in retrospective slideshows, not current earnings calls. Profits are up, the audience is there and the games are landing. And yet the mood around it feels… tense. Part of that is the market being the market.…

This isn’t just about saving a few bucks; it’s about calling time on a cycle that doesn’t serve us anymore. Look, I spent a lot of my time on the “other side” of the table. I saw how the marketing machine works. I watched as we polished the narrative to make you feel like your life was incomplete without the latest titanium frame or a lens that can see into your neighbor’s yard. Now that I’m looking at tech through a consumer lens, the “flagship arms race” feels like a lot of noise and distraction. Here is why I think…

I sat down the other night to look at my bank statement, and it’s getting ridiculous. Between the Apple ecosystem, the Google storage (because yes, I use both ecosystems), the “no-ads” tax on YouTube, and the big streamers, I realized I’m paying a monthly “entertainment tax” that’s starting to look very much like a grocery bill. If you’re in the same boat—juggling Apple One, Google One AI, YouTube Premium, Netflix, and Disney+, you’ve likely realized that we didn’t actually escape the old DStv “bloated bundle” problem. We just traded one big bill for five or six smaller ones that hide…