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In this episode, Yaaseen Barnes and Brendon Petersen rattle on about travelling and carry-on luggage vs checked luggage, the Huawei nova 8, Honor's 50 series coming to South Africa and what that could mean for Huawei, why Telkom Music powered by JOOX is a great idea and having a flip phone with a T9 keyboard in 2021 (thanks Nokia for the 2720 Flip).

Yaaseen Barnes and Brendon Petersen chat with Nicola Nell, marketing manager at Xiaomi Technology, about the brand, what their product strategy is for South Africa and whether or not we'll ever see Poco officially launch in the country.  Xiaomi products can be purchased in South Africa via various retailers including Mobile In Africa

In this week's episode we catch up on 2 week's worth of tech news: 01:00 - Apple Music lossless audio 13:00 - Acer's Global Press Conference (GPC) announcement 27:00 - Dot Connect Electronics 33:30 - Spyra Two 41:10 - Microsoft Teams for friends and family 46:00 - Twitter's new verification application system 52:30 - Nintendo Switch rumours 59:20 - Google IO

Catch our Twitter Spaces conversation with Oppo South Africa on Wednesday 7 April at 7 pm SAST. In this weeks episode, we finally stop fighting over Apple, we gush over new mapping tech and try to decipher Apple's WWDC 2021 invite. Timestamps: Apple Pay launches in South Africa - 02:00 Apple WWDC 2021 - 18:30 Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold and EV ambitions - 27:30 DiDi launches in South Africa - 55:45 Google Maps Live - 01:04:00 For more tech news, head over to reframed.co or the Tech Reframed podcast You can find Yaaseen Barnes on Twitter or Instagram Brendon Petersen can be found on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and monthly on MetroFM

In this week's episode: YouTube Shorts - 02:00 Facebook Neural wristband for AR - 15:00 Microsoft in talks to buy Discord - 26:20 Oppo launches the Reno 5 in South Africa - 37:30 For more tech news, head over to reframed.co or the Tech Reframed podcast You can find Yaaseen Barnes on Twitter or Instagram Brendon Petersen can be found on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and monthly on MetroFM

In this week's episode we visit Hisense, talk about the new Samsung Galaxy A series, try to figure out what OPPO is launching in South Africa and argue about iPhone (yet again): New Samsung Galaxy A series - 00:35 Hisense 100-inch Lasercast TV - 09:37 Oppo launch - 21:00 iPhone loyalty at an all time high - 28:00 Shoprite's MVNO - 35:00 Twitter hacker gets sentenced - 42:12

In this week's episode, we try to understand a lot of things and we end up arguing about Apple and VR (again): NFTs - 00:55 Fireside app - 09:05 Fitbit Ace 3 - 18:46 Samsung Awesome Unpacked - 24:00 Oppo Find X3 Pro - 35:00 Huawei rumours - 38:16 Apple rumours - 51:00

In this episode of The Tech Wrap Up: 00:22 Twitter announces Super Follows  12:00 Twitter Spaces comes to Android 20:30 David Dobrik's Dispo is valued at over $200 million 32:53 Android 12 39:27 DJI's FPV drone 42:40 Microsoft Mesh 50:00 Apple lets you transfer iCloud photos to Google For more tech news, head over to reframed.co or the Tech Reframed podcast You can find Yaaseen Barnes on Twitter or Instagram Brendon Petersen can be found on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and monthly on MetroFM

In this episode of The Tech Wrap Up: 01:30 - What is Clubhouse? 17:14 - Samsung's 4 years of security updates, Brendon's love of the S21 series, and Samsung Buy & Try 45:48 - Whatsapp clarifies their new Ts & Cs 53:38 - Spotify's massive new expansions and updates for 2021 59:07 - Playstation's new VR headset for PS5 For more tech news, head over to reframed.co or head over to the Tech Reframed podcast You can find Yaaseen Barnes on Twitter or Instagram Brendon Petersen can be found on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and monthly on MetroFM