Episode 53 Duo It Up
This episode of Level Up - Duo It Up (Episode 53), hosted by Ziyaad, Nabihah, and Isa Plaatjes, covers news and technology updates for the week of the 13th September 2026.
Key News Highlights:
- Disaster Response: The team discusses the ongoing efforts to locate six South Africans missing after flash floods in Nepal (1:58). Various organisations are providing aid, including Crescent of Hope, the Al Imdaad Foundation, and Gift of the Givers (2:47-3:30).
- International Relations: South Africa and Saudi Arabia are strengthening ties to improve Hajj and Umrah travel processes and boost bilateral tourism (4:05-7:40).
- Local Updates: The hosts mention the conclusion of South African National Parks free access week (9:26) and note the observance of National Literacy Week (13:33).
- Sports & Weather: Updates include Pitso Mosimane's return as head coach of the men's national football team (7:54) and weather warnings regarding El Niño (8:32).
Tech Segment (Apple Releases): Starting after the break (14:48), Issa breaks down Apple's latest product announcements:
- iPhone Duo: Apple's first book-style foldable smartphone (21:02), featuring a 7.6-inch inner display, a magnetic hinge, and A20 Pro chip integration (21:35-29:50).
- iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max: New flagships featuring enhanced camera systems, 48MP lenses, and titanium frames (31:13-36:45).
- Other Releases: The Apple Watch Series 12 (24:07) and Apple Watch Ultra 4 (37:27), along with new AirPods (25:57) are discussed as part of the ecosystem refresh.
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Episode 53: Duo It Up
Sunday 13 September 2026 / 01st Rabi al-Thani 1448AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
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Episode 53: Duo It Up
Sunday 13 September 2026 / 01st Rabi al-Thani 1448AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
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Episode 53: Duo It Up
Sunday 13 September 2026 / 01st Rabi al-Thani 1448AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
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to dear listeners. It's just past 200 p.m. right here in South Africa and it's our favorite day of the week. Yomul Aad.
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It's the first day of Rabia 14:48 ah alhamdulillah and it corresponds to Sunday the 13th of September 2026.
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I'm Zad Plachis and with me are my co-hosts Nabiha and Issa Plachis.
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Welcome to Level Up, where we listen, learn, and grow, inshallah, with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's guidance, and we break down the week's news and talk
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about what really matters to young Muslims. Today, a WhatsApp line is open. The number is 0727861548.
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You can call in on 0185472 or DM us on.com.
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We are that's I L O V E Z A C O M. We on Instagram, Facebook X, LinkedIn,
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So, alhamdulillah, it's a new month. Um, we're getting to those months where we not sure of how to say it because we
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learned one way and the new generation have learned another way of saying the months. But alhamdulillah it's the first
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of the month. It's a new month. And we make dua that oh Allah bring this month upon us with security, iman, safety,
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Islam, your pleasure and protection from the shan. Amen. So after the break, Issa
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will be discussing or chatting about um Apple's new releases. Um that's something that happened this week. But
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uh before we get into that, let us look at this week's news. The six South Africans still remain missing following the devastating flash floods in Nepal.
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The Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Durko confirmed that there is still no confirmation on the whereabouts of the
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missing nationals. At the request of Nepalese authorities, the South African Police Service collected DNA profiles
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from the biological relatives of the missing individuals. These DNA profiles were sent to police in Nepal and
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Interpol in Kathmandu to help identify victims from the disaster zone. South African diplomatic missions in New Delhi
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and Beijing are working alongside local authorities to coordinate the ongoing response. Organizations like Lanesia
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based Crescent of Hope are providing emergency relief in Nepal via teams on the ground supplying food, clean water,
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shelter, and medical care following the catastrophic flash floods. Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah. Other South African humanitarian organizations like the Alimad Foundation have deployed an
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active response team in Nepal. They assisted over 5,000 people with food hampers and feeding programs in
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displacement camps. The local partner remains on the ground to continue the support. While Gift of the Givers has
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placed search and rescue teams on standby, they're working with local authorities and families while monitoring access to the disaster zone.
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Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah. Inshallah, they will find them and find them safe and find them alive. Inshallah.
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Um and alhamdulillah for the teams and the organizations that are there on the ground you know
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assisting and I think there are other organizations as well that are assisting um you know these larger organizations as well.
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You mean the smaller ones who are assisting the larger ones. Alhamdulillah that's good. And may they be successful inshallah. Amen.
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Amen.
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Um then South Africa and Saudi Saudi Arabia recently strengthened their diplomatic and economic ties highlighted by a recent meeting this week between
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South African tourism minister Patricia Dil and Saudi Arabia's minister of Hajj and Umra Dr. the Tofi bin Fo Fosan
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Al-Habia to boost travel, pilgrimage coordination and bilateral cooperation.
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Both nations agreed to improve flight connectivity, ease Hajj and Umra travel processes for South African pilgrims and
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market shared cultural and halal tourism offerings. Sure. Inshallah amen.
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Inshallah a mean. High level delegations including recent talks led by South African officials like Minister Dean
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McFersonson visiting NEOM and the Saudi water authority and past sessions of the Saudi South African joint committee
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co-chared by Minister Parks Tao continue to target multi-billion dollar investments in infrastructure, energy and minerals.
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Both countries align their long-term growth framework. South Africa's national development plan NDP and Saudi
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vision 2030 to diversify economies away from raw resource exports. Wow. Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah. So let's take a deeper look at this week's meeting. Tourism minister Patricia Dalil and Saudi Arabia Minister of Hajj and Umra Dr. Tofi bin
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Fosan Al- Harra have pledged to strengthen cooperation between the two countries to better serve South African pilgrims and Umra visitors traveling to
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the kingdom. Dil hosted the Saudi Arabian minister in Pritoriia on Wednesday during his official visit to South Africa. Every year thousands of
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South African pilgrims and Umra visitors travel to the kingdom for religious purposes. South Africa and Saudi Arabia already have an important connection
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through the thousands of South African Muslims who travel for Hajj and Umrah.
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We now have an opportunity to build on that relationship by encouraging greater two-way travel, strengthening connectivity and introducing more Saudi
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travelers to the diversity of experiences that South Africa has to offer, Dil said. Additionally, South
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African tourism will also build seasonal packages that will be marketed to Saudi travelers.
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Closer cooperation during the visit. The ministers also discussed closer cooperation between the tourism sectors
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of both countries, including destination promo promotion, skills development, showcasing South Africa's rich Islamic
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heritage and halal tourism offering. The push towards expanding relations comes on the back of rising travel statistics on both sides.
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Over the past year, some 56,000 South Africans travel to Saudi Arabia for Umra, representing a 10% yearon-year
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increase. Simultaneously, inbound travel from Saudi Arabia to South Africa has surged from 5,461
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visitors in 2021 to 24,942 in 2025. Alhamdulillah.
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This growth means a great deal to us.
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Our priority is to listen to South African pilgrims, Umrah visitors and service providers understand their needs and work together to make their journey more accessible, seamless and enriching.
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Amen. Travel brings people closer together. Haj and Umrah have connected South Africa and Saudi Arabia for generations and we look forward to
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building on this historic connection to further strengthen the relationship between our two countries. Alabia said exciting times.
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Yeah, that sounds like good news.
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Inshallah mean hopefully it'll be um uh what is the beneficial to both nations in
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definitely. Then in sports news in Bafana Bafana, Pito Mosima returns as head coach of South Africa's men's
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national football team over 14 years after his first term ended.
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So um uh Mr. Hugo Bruce has left and Pito
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Mosman has taken over. And um with regards to the rugby fly past uh that we
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spoke about last week, aviation authorities are reviewing data after a defended a lowaltitude double jet fly past ahead of a spring box and all
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blacks match. So they're still going on about it. Okay.
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Then on the weather front, the South African weather service issued alerts for heavy rain, damaging winds, and icy conditions as a cut off low pressure system hits part of the country.
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forecasters warn of a strong El Nino driving hot and drier spring and summer conditions. Say that again. El Nino.
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How do you say it? El Nino. Nino.
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Is that Is it coming from the Mexican side?
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I think so. Um and then in the Madlanga Commission, former Hawk boss Godfrey Lea faced heavy questioning regarding phone
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records and his contact with influencer Malcolm X.
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Um, in local elections, over 140,000 candidates have registered as the Electoral Commission of South Africa,
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IEC, begins its vetting process ahead of upcoming municipal votes.
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Okay. So, and staying locally, um did you did you know in around South Africa this last week from uh 7th of September
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to the 13th of September to today actually today's the last day um the national parks in South Africa were
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offering free day access day access you know just to go for the day in particip participating national parks like I said
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around South Africa for South African citizens only. Um you always seem to miss that.
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Yes, man.
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They have had such an awkward time. But that being said, um we actually uh Ju
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launched a new vehicle, the J5, which again it's not a motoring show, so I'm not going to get into detail, but you can obviously check I live ZA or Let's
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Talk Z for more details about that. Um they launched a hybrid and a battery electric vehicle, the J5 and we actually
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drove the vehicle through a sand parks which is the Golden Gate um national park.
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Oh, alhamdulillah. And by we, you mean you and and the rest of the launch crew for Jaiku.
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But um I don't think there's a there's a fee anymore because it's the second time we've just like driven through that uh
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path in the last like 3 years. And then did you just drive through? Did you go and stop anywhere or see anything?
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No, we we drove uh I'm talking about through the gates like there wasn't any gate or boom or anything. So, I'm not
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sure if there is still a fee that you pay for going through that park, that national park.
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Okay. But did you stop anywhere in around that park?
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Yeah, we did. We stopped a few places um obviously to take content. Um there's also the new that new new dino center
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that's there um in the park. Uh we didn't go to that.
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So, you wouldn't really know details about that.
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That you have the admissions fee. So activities in the park obviously there are an entrance but um for those of you who just want to drive
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through uh what you're saying is you can inshallah in well I think so okay okay but then there there are other
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parks that um were participating in this and like I said from the 7th until today was Kruger National Park um west coast
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and grabbies or falls national park and um yeah so it
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was only till oh no they say excluding the weekend so it was only till Friday actually for for those selected parks
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but then um they are there were other sand parks so just make a note um around this year around this time every year
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because we always seem to miss it if you guys can make it um make a note you know beginning of September is it beginning
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of September usually or the second week of September make it in such such a way that it's not you know like holiday time cuz obviously
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they don't want an influx of people. So um but if you can afford to take off um
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you know during this time then I mean and go during the week in it would be nice because that's free access day
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access. So obviously you can't stay over for free but I mean you can go through during the day and and I think it benefits mostly the cape
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like the eastern cape the western cape uh cuz there's a lot of sand parks close by you know um
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for us kangas there's not anything like or kruger national park so and that's not even anywhere near we
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have to drive three to four hour drive outside of and then you must still drive to those places so Oh okay. But that's that like
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I said make a note of it so that inshallah next year or the coming years if they will have and you if you do have the chance then inshallah we are still waiting for that chance also inshallah.
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I mean and then also just before we end off um this past week was n national book week or national literacy week with
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international literacy day being on the 8th of September. Alhamdulillah.
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Yeah. Alhamdulillah. So it's always good to you know encourage everyone to read basically but you know for the youth please you know reading helps you
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develop helps you to grow so it's always good you know keep that in mind but don't just wait for national
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literacy week or literacy day to start reading start reading now every type of um
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literature and I'm talking about Islamic literature also we should be kept informed and know about things ourselves.
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Yeah. Well, it's not only just about level up, listen, learn, and grow. It's also about read, learn, and grow. Inshallah. Inshallah. Amen. Amen.
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Yes. So it's that time of year again.
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Isa just reminded me that last year it's exactly a year ago. It was our second episode isa.
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Yes. of Level Up and we spoke about the Apple releases then and that was the iPhone 17.
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Yes.
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Um which didn't have much change but came at a hefty price. But this year um
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something that's been spoken about well it's been um not spoken about but people were imagining what this would look like
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and had a lot of AI. There's been rumors that uh Apple's been doing this or
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wanting to do this uh for a while is to to make a foldable phone. And I think it
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hasn't really been on Apple's um to-do list because
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they've always been innovators. Um they've always been the ones that have come out. I mean, we know from the time
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of the Mac um to the iPod to the iPhone, uh the iPad, you know, they were always
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at the forefront of whatever the technology was. And the foldable, I think for them, they're just making it
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because it's, you know, part of the market share. There's a lot of foldables out now. Um apparently they're doing
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well. So, I think Apple just wanted a bit of the market share uh in that category, but I don't think it's
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something that they, you know, really wanted to push. They might obviously come out with something totally
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different after this. We never know cuz I mean, um, we've seen it with all their devices. when the first iPhone came out, I think it was 2007.
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Um, you know, like people were like, "Oh, uh, how are we going to use this phone?" Because then there were still keypads and this phone is not going to
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lock because it's a whole screen and it's going to break and you know, there was so much negativity around it. And
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it's so funny because now every single phone is only screen. you know this um you can't have a a phone uh
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obviously like phones that are not smartphones but even phones that are not smartphones have mostly screen um so
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it's it's so funny and even with the iPad people were like oh what are we going to do with this we have a laptop we have a cell phone what what is this
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thing what do we need it for and now people can't live without their tablets or iPads cuz even some people um can even like
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stick their own iPad into like the car if they don't have like that type of new screen.
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Yeah. Well, we've seen um manufacturers do it. They've brought over vehicles um
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from China that have had old um screens or you know like uh uh radios or
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whatever and they've taken it out and in that space they've put in tablets. Yes. So I mean that's that's possible.
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So people are multi-using it and I mean um most kids nowadays it's easier to give them an iPad than to give them a
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laptop because uh you know to watch whatever they need to do or to keep them busy basically. Um, so it's it's become
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part of a daily life. And I think I'm not sure if a Apple foldable will become
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one of those, but I feel like um Apple is just, you know, doing it to, you
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know, appease the market and to keep that market share. But I feel like there's going to be something else that
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they're going to come out with um very soon that's going to, you know, be a gamecher.
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I know they come out with a new like things cuz even last year when they launched that iPhone 17, they launched a
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thin phone as well. Remember the Oh, yes. The ultra thin one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that.
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Yeah. So they they they always looking at being different. Um and I think it's
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it's good. It keeps um the competition alive. Uh I'm not saying that you know this foldable thing is the best thing
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for them. I mean Samsung and Huawei and a lot of the other maybe we'll go through a little bit of the history of foldables if we have time. um how it
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started, when it started, who started it because it actually wasn't one of the um
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you know main uh players in the industry. Uh but Isa, why don't you get into what did Apple release this week?
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Yes. So, in Apple September's 2026 uh product announcements introduced a major
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shake up across its hardware lineup. So, like the iPhone, Apple's first book
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style foldable smartphone featuring a 5.4 in outer display and a massive 7.6
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in inner display with a virtually creasefree design.
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7.6 in. So, you're looking at almost tablet like u mini iPad basically um
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size. I think that's what they're going for, like mini iPad tablet size. Yeah. Okay. Mhm.
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And then the key highlights. So, it's powered by the 2 nanometer A20 Pro chip
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and a C2 modern dual 48 megapixel camera setup, magnetic hinge, side touch ID,
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Apple Pencil support, and iPad style side by side multitasking. What I did
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like um when I did see the videos was the fact that there was such a smooth transition um from the front to when you
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opened it and um not like how you were hard open it with the Samsung.
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Yeah. But not only that, so whatever was displayed on that front screen like smoothly came onto the middle
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screen, you know, like it wasn't like it took some time like there wasn't a delay and it wasn't like it was two different
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screens, you know, like what was on the front once you opened it, it just made it bigger. And I think that for me, um,
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in terms of foldables, uh, is a is a good selling point. I I would definitely look at at it because
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of that smooth transition. And I think maybe that's also why Apple took a while to to get it. Like I said, maybe it
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wasn't on their to-do list and people were just like pressurizing them. But maybe they were also trying to refine certain things cuz they said, you said a magnetic hinge.
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So, um you know, they they're trying to make it premium, which Apple is. It's a it's a premium brand. You can't say that
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a 40,000 rand phone is not a premium brand.
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And then um it's estimated South African pricing. So it's expected a starting price around 42,000
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rand to 45,000 rand which was the US launch of $1,199.
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Yeah. So um yeah. So again, we're looking at a 42 to 45,000 rand price point. Um, yeah, that's a lot of money.
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Yes. And then the iPhone 18 Pro Max is approximately 29,000
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rand to 31,000 rand US launch $799.
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Okay. So also you're looking at close to 30,000 just over.
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Mhm. And then it's Apple Watch Series 12 refined mainstream smartwatch focus on a health metrics and internal hardware.
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Okay. So then its key highlights S11 processor high frequency heart rate an
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HRV monitoring machine learning enhanced step tracking 25%
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longer without battery life and a new casing finishes including a returning pearl white ceramic option.
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Okay. So that's the new the watch 12 series. Yes.
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Okay. And then it's estimated South African pricing is approximately 8,900
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rand to 9,900 rand for base aluminium models US launch $129.
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Yeah. So none of the pricing you just estimating pricing based on the the dollar price cuz we haven't got any pricing yet.
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Yes. For South Africa.
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Yes. Some of them I think they haven't launched it yet in South Africa.
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Well, it was a global launch but and uh I think pre-orders probably started on the 12th on Friday or Saturday here in
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South Africa. Oh, yesterday in fact. Um so yeah so they you know like obviously
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um you know like waiting for them to get stock here in South Africa the eye stores and whoever's going to stock it
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and then they'll probably release the pricing obviously also the uh contract uh phone thing.
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Yeah. And it will depend on the price of the doll at the time and UTV fees and all those things.
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Yes. And then we go to the AirPods 5 with wireless charging case.
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Approximately 3,400 rand to 3,800 rand US launch $149.
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Um, and like we said, this official local price will only be closer to when it's in stores.
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Okay. So, it's, you know, it always sounds so much cheaper when they say it's like $149 and then you think,
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imagine if it was like $149 rand or you can get a new iPhone for $999.
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Imagine if you could get a new iPhone for a,000 rand instead of like instead of like 40,000 rand.
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Yeah. I think they change the price for the things each year of like like they
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say like it will say like $23 or something and then it's a higher price each year here in South Africa.
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Yeah. Well, it is a higher price everywhere, but um it also depends on obviously the exchange rate. So what if
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the exchange rate is quite higher then we're in for a very high price. And then
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we go to the iPhone duo. So displays uh 5.4 in cover OLED display, the 7.6 in
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inner foldable LTPO OLED one to uh 120
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Hz peak brightness 2,600 nits. Okay. So it's it's quite bright.
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Mhm. And then its processor and architecture
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Apple A20 Pro two nanometer node mode
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node or mode uh paired with custom C2 5G Wi-Fi modems.
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Okay. So Okay. So it has a 5G modem in it and it has um Apple A20 processor.
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Yes. And then it's biometrics. So a sidemounted capacitive touch ID on the power button,
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frontfacing face ID on outer panel. Okay.
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And then it's camera assistant. So the main 48 megapixel wide f/1.6 uh sensor shift OIS.
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Okay. Okay. So, that's the main main one. It's got a wide angle. Okay.
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And then the secondary is a 48 MP ultra wide macro f/ 2.2.
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So, both are using 48 MP. I think that's become like a standard now.
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And then the selfie dual 12 MP true depth cameras inner and outer. Okay.
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Yes, that's a selfie camera. Okay. Yes. And then the bold and durability.
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So, it's a titanium aluminum dynamic hinge, liquid metal, gear system, IPX8,
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water resistance, ceramic shield, outer glass.
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Okay. So, you need it to be water resistant cuz people drop their phones all the time in in the water. Sometimes in the pool. Yeah.
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Yeah. Cuz they want to like take a video of themselves in the pool and then they just drop it. Yeah.
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Yes. And then uh the input support. So it's a Apple Pencil Gen 2 Pro on inner screen.
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Okay. So they have the pencil whereas the um Samsung's have the stylus or pen.
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Yeah.
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Okay. So, it sounds like um you know they they really did try to refine this
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product before launching it and I'll be keen to see how it compares to other foldables in the market. Um yeah, so it
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sounds sounds good on paper.
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And then uh we go to the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. Wait, before you go on, um
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there were a lot of memes about um Google obviously had Duo before they had uh Meet.
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Yes.
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And Dolingo also, you know, like so they were having a lot of memes with the iPhone Duo.
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Google and Dolingo were obviously jumping on it because, you know, like they were like, "You've taken their name." Yes. Um, so that was quite funny here.
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Yeah, cuz I know when before they made me meet then I knew what the duo was. It had like a different type of thing and
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now they change meats icon. And then Dolingo is that one with the different languages. Yeah. With that little bird.
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Yes.
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Yeah. So it was quite funny. But uh yeah, we won't get into memes now. Back to the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.
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So, the displays. So, the Pro 6.3 in Super Rectina XDR LTPO OLED 2,622
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by 1,2620 HzT promotion.
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M you know I remember um you know when we grew up they would release a phone
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like maybe like every two or 3 years and now it's every year and obviously there's it's not only just one phone
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okay with um I iPhone they have you know like iPhone 17 and then the 18 and they just they've
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now got like the Pro and the Pro Max and Um, yeah, sounds like Cherry Cars.
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Um, but, uh, they didn't have all those other additions. It was just one phone. So, like if it was, say for example, the
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iPhone and then we had it, I can't even remember, but I'm pretty sure it was like 2 or 3 years and then it was like quite, you know, like you um, you looked
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forward to the launch because you grew with that phone, right? you've had it for two or three years and now
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you want to get the new phone and it's taken you like two or three years to get to that and then they launch it. But launching a f a new phone every year. I mean how often can you upgrade a phone?
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I understand it's to obviously bridge the gap because say someone had like a iPhone 14 or 15 and now they want to
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move on to the 18 but um you know like it it it becomes
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um almost like monotonous because these uh tech giants he keep on like you know
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you have S25 and S26 and how much has changed okay we'll add a little bit of a little extra AI I or
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you know we're talking about adding a little extra. I don't know if you remember a few years ago when they
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launched the the 16 the iPhone 16 they had two people right the iPhone 15
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was a person just a person and then the iPhone 16 was a person with a watch.
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Yeah. So, they were basically trying to show, again, a meme trying to show um that there wasn't much change. They just
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added a a watch or a clock, but they actually added like one button extra. I can't remember all the details.
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Um but yeah, that's exactly what happens.
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Yeah, cuz I actually like when they launched on the 16, they launched that zoom in on the side.
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I think that was the only thing that they launched that was different between the iPhone 15.
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So, but yeah, um like I said, maybe it's it's to bridge the gap. They know best.
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They know how they're selling the phones and obviously people who consume it also, like I said, maybe they, you know,
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like three or four generations behind and they're looking at the new phone.
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Um, but I also think that most people uh, you know, the the used market or
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refurbished or demo market is more, you know, like people generally purchase that more. So, they look at, for
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example, the iPhone 18 is coming out now. So they could either get the new the iPhone 17 at a cheaper price or they
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could get a refurbished iPhone 16, you know, type of thing. So I mean, who knows?
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Back to the story. So, uh, the Pro Max
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6.9 in super retina XDR LTPO OLED 2,868
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by 1,320 Hz promotion.
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Um, the processor, the A20 Pro 2 nanometer process with integrated vapor chamber thermal distribution.
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Okay.
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And then the camera system. So the main 48 uh megapixel wide with variable
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physic physical aperture um f/1.4 to f/4.0.
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And then the ultra wide a 48 megapixel.
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Um and then the telephoto 48 megapixel periscope telephoto with five times
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optical zoom uh port and connectivity. So it's a USBC
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USB 4 speeds up to 40 uh GBPS gigabytes per second. Okay.
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Yes. The gigabytes per second. Then it's got a Wi-Fi 7 Bluetooth 6.0 thread ultra wide band.
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Okay.
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Two. And then the chassis is a grade five titanium frame with m
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matte matte a textured glass back.
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Okay. So that's the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. Yes. So they didn't launch just iPhone 18.
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Yes. They only launch the Pro and Pro Max. I think so. Oh, okay.
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This usually cuz um they you I think last year they launched the normal, the Pro and the Pro Max and the Ultra something. What was it?
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Pro Max Ultra or something. No, what was it called?
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No, I know there was like one had three cameras, other one had two cameras and the other one had one camera.
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Which one was the thin one? Doesn't there some You said there was some thin one. So, wasn't there like That was a different type of iPhone, I think.
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Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah. And then, uh, the Apple Watch Ultra 4.
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So, it's case and display. It's a 49 mm natural or black titanium case. Uh, flat sapphire crystal LTPO3.
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uh OLED display up to 3,000 nits peak brightness down to 1 nit.
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Okay.
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And then the processor S11 system in package SIP with four core neural engine.
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Uh battery life up to 45 hours normal use up to 80 hours in low power mode.
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its durability and water ratings. WR 100 meter water resistance.
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uh the EN uh 13,319
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scuba diving certification to 40 m STD
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80010H complement uh the sensors health sensing
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system ECG high low HR HRV tracking risk
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temperature depth depth gauge to 40 m water temperature dual frequency L1 plus L5 GPS.
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Okay, so that's the Ultra 4 and then I'm assuming the um Ultra um the watch
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series 12, you know, has upgrade as well and obviously the AirPods 5. Um but uh
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you know all that information will be on our website i love city.com as well for you to check. Uh I don't think we should
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we should bore the listeners with a whole lot of technical details.
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Yeah. So thank you for that Issa. I think um you know it's it's good to hear what's in the market. doesn't
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necessarily mean we have to purchase these products because um sometimes they're ridiculously expensive and unless like you say getting it on
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contract um you know it's 40,000 rand. So there's a lot of other
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things that you can do with it, but it's good to know what's in the market because these type of phones which are
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premium now, the entry- levelvel phones in a few years time will have this capabilities and we've seen it with tech, we've seen it with cars as well.
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Um, I mean when the iPhone launched that was a premium phone and now the specs
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that the iPhone has, I think the cheapest smartphone uh has better features than what the original iPhone had.
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Yes. Cuz even now there's even more phones now with more Apple um uh tablets and
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Yeah. So, so it's good to know that in the next few years, whatever Issa has spoken about now, we'll be seeing in our
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entry-level phones, the affordable phones rather. Yes.
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to our dear listeners for joining us on this lovely Sunday afternoon and alhamdulillah for a new month I wanted
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to quickly also say you know how you mentioned at the beginning where it's the start of the months where you we learned one way and our new generation
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or the new generation after that uh learned another way and mostly because of that we uh these are the months of
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Islam um we learned Rabiel O and Rabiel Aer Jamad O Jad and I always assumed
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it's because you know Oul is first and a is last. So the first Rabiel month and the last Rabiel month, the first
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Jammadal month and the last and now it's Rabiel O first and Rabiothani which I'm assuming is second you know it comes
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from the the word you know if name second and then Jamad which I'm assuming is a derivative of a for first and
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Jamadra for der derivative of last. Well, sometimes they even have it with the Roman numerals too,
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so that you know that it's the second one. The second one. Yeah. So, okay.
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Alhamdulillah to our dear listeners for joining us on this lovely Sunday afternoon. Please join us every Sunday right here on Radio Islam International from 2 to 300 p.m.
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