The Zimbabwean Perspective

A look at our lives and the tech we use in them

Year: 2019

Here comes the PS5: All the details Sony unveiled this week

It’s a shame I can’t use the smiling emoji as a preview for this article

The reason we’re most excited about Mortal Kombat 11 is a little different from everyone else’s

I almost want to see the story on this as much as i want to see Avengers Endgame.. Mortal Kombat 11 is by far our most anticipated game of this year, promising more awesome fights, intriguing takes on characters new…

Look out Netflix, Here comes Disney+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuDKxvcptLI Tons of new shows along with at least 70% of your childhood……. We recently mentioned in our last post of how streaming services are the huge new “it factor” in movies and TV series and before that we covered…

Understanding movie and series distribution: when they release, and where and how you can watch them.

A little help so you know where best to watch Game of Thrones or the next Marvel movie

Facebook wants to encircle Africa with undersea internet cables

The project’s name though…… Facebook is apparently planning to run undersea internet cables around the continent to increase our internet bandwidth here, in a move to of course secure more African users for its social media empire. The project will…

THE BASICS: Web Browsers

You may not think you need these tips, but you’ll need them the next time you think of getting Game of thrones online.

Facebook is pulling Instagram, Messenger and it’s official app for Windows Phones

Abandon Ship Brothers!!….. As we’ve said before, being a Windows Phone user is the smartphone equivalent of an extreme sport. The platform has long been considered dead since 2016, and with Microsoft announcing that they will be ending official support…

Consumer tablets are useless

Or they’re at least wasted potential.

Lifestyle

April fools 2019: A Collection of the best jokes from tech and Zim Companies

So now that everyone’s had their fill of being a goof, with tons of tech companies and a few of our own Zim ones getting in on the fun(even if they’re not exactly tech related), we figured we would compile…

Apple Cancelling AirPower is a necessary pain that can help the whole tech industry

In cancelling a product, Apple has created a martyr On Friday, Apple cancelled their consistently delayed AirPower wireless charger, much to the dismay of Apple fans and most likely Apple investors all over the world. In a statement where Apple…

Huawei P30 and P30 Pro: Bring out the Big Guns

We talked before about how the Samsung Galaxy S10s are amazing phones that basically set the bar for all other phones this year, and while we’ve seen some disappointing answers from LG and Sony, it seems Huawei is willing to…

Facebook ,Instagram and Whatsapp are getting big changes. Here’s how (and why)

Two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg released what is arguably the most impactful blog post in the last few years for Facebook as a company. The post , which has already set the tech world on fire and caused a few…

Facebook loses two of it’s top executives due to new privacy based Pivot

The Company’s new direction seems to rub the some of Old Guard the wrong way

MuGarden is the kind of multicultural/multi-background exchange Zimbabwe needs more of

Music and art like this can help us address the division within our nation

The phone has become the true Personal Computer (PC)

  Personal computer: the definition for this according to Oxford Learners Dictionaries  is “a computer for one person to use at work or at home”   and its pretty spot on from our simple understanding of the term. For over the…