Blog #iOS

While iPhones have been dominating the market in sales, slick design and the all powerful iOS operating system there is one area they have faced scrutiny over, besides a consistent design in their pro models, that is battery life. Do you find yourself constantly charging your iPhone when the Low Power Mode warning pops up? While phones hold less of a charge over time, you don't want your phone to die on you while you're using it to navigate on the road or in the middle of a conversation. While individual mileage may vary depending on usage patterns, following these tips will undoubtedly make a noticeable difference in prolonging your battery’s longevity and ensuring peak performance throughout its lifespan.

Counterfeit, used and refurbished electronic gadgets have become a norm in the Zim market. To be clear selling counterfeit goods is illegal but selling used or refurbished goods is legal but the problem now comes when consumers are now being told that these goods are brand new and sealed. For the last few days i have been seeing several outlets in Harare and online claiming refurbished PCs to be brand new and the sad thing is almost 80% of Zimbabwean consumers don’t know the difference. As reported by the Herald one such example is Victory Mobiles housed in Nicky’s Mall, located at the corner of Bank and Chinhoyi streets, opposite the Gulf Complex, an electronics shop reportedly selling counterfeit Redmi and Samsung phonesTrust Freddy, Check Point Desk. Join us as we uncover the whole secret and how to authenticate products.

This year will be ground zero for the commercialization of satellite smartphone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this capability or include it as part of customer subscriptions. A report by mobile industry analyst GSMA Intelligence says that the monetization of satellite services may hinge on whether mobile operators decide to charge for them, with a mixture of approaches already evident. Operators are already mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance. For clarification we're talking about satellite connectivity with unmodified, standard smartphones, for when you're out of cellular range or service, not dedicated sat-phones that have been around for some time now.

Mobile satellite connectivity enables a smartphones to establish a connection with a satellite network, providing communication in areas without cellular coverage similarly to what Space X is doing with StarLink but this time without the Kit as the middleman. With the introduction of the iPhone 14 series in 2022, Apple brought satellite communication to smartphones, allowing users to connect with emergency services via SOS messages even in areas without cellular coverage. Other smartphone brands, including Google and Samsung, followed, but the technology remained a niche feature available only in select regions and on a limited number of smartphone models but fast forward to 2025 it’s a changed game with it now calls and texts made available not just emergency SOS and more breakthroughs expected later this year. So how does this technology actually works.