However, in a recent earnings report, Sony has revealed that sales for the console are beginning to slow, with numbers down year-on-year. For the 2017 Christmas period, Sony revealed that it sold 9 million PS4 consoles, which is down slightly on the 9.7 million sold across the same period the previous year. Overall, it’s estimated that PS4 sales are now over the 76 million mark, which is close to the lifetime sales of the PS3, which hit over 80 million sales. Sony attributes this to favorable cu

YouTube Go, an official Android app designed to minimize data usage, is now available in 130 countries. The app launched in India last year, and is designed for people in locations with poor-quality or very expensive mobile data connectivity. Users can either watch a whole video in the app, or download it to their device or an SD card at a quality setting of their choice. The focus is still on countries with less-than-ideal data infrastructure, and YouTube Go is now available to download from th

Apple has confirmed that you won’t be able to stream music to the HomePod speaker from a phone or tablet using Bluetooth. One of the big questions that is currently hanging over the smart speaker is whether you’ll be able to play music from third-party music providers like Spotify. As you can already stream Spotify over AirPlay, this would seem like a workaround to get it (and other music services like it) on to the smart speaker. As HomePod is angling to be the smart speaker that excels at musi

Sony has announced the release of a brand-new pair of Special Edition Dualshock PS4 wireless controllers, in Midnight Blue and Black Steel shades. In the official announcement on the Playstation Blog, Sony product manager Andrew Mason explains that while the Midnight Blue shade is an all-new edition, the Steel Black option is a revamp of a controller that was first released a few years ago. “Some of you may remember the popular metallic design from 2016,” Mason writes. “Now it’s back and like al

entry-level OLED TV. Stylish design and premium picture quality should make this a must-audition 4K UHD TV…Due early summer, Philips 803 OLED TV is being touted as a new entry-point for those hankering after an Ambilight equipped OLED flatscreen. It transpires that there’s no difference in terms of panel, picture processing engine or Ambilight configuration between any of Philips 2018 OLED offerings. With 4K OLED, Philips has finally found a display technology that seems a perfect match for it

The Samsung Galaxy S9 is shaping up to be a fairly small upgrade on the Samsung Galaxy S8 and there’s at least one major aspect that may not be upgraded at all – the battery. UnionRepair (an online store) has listed replacements for the batteries destined for the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus and you can see that their capacities are 3,000mAh for the former and 3,500mAh for the latter, which is exactly the same as the batteries in the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. And it doesn’t n

Apple’s latest smartwatch is selling at twice the volume of the Apple Watch 2 when it was on sale last year. Apple revealed stats about the Apple Watch 3 during its Q1 2018 earnings report, showing it had a 50% growth in units for the fourth consecutive quarter. That means the Apple Watch brand is growing at a steady rate, but it’s not exactly clear why the new watch is selling so much better than the Apple Watch 2 did. While the Apple Watch 3 does come with LTE integration and a barometric alti

Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2019 will ship in the second half of this year, but when it does become available you’ll need to have a PC running Windows 10 in order to benefit from the next-gen productivity suite. In a blog post, Microsoft clarified that the new version of Office will only run on Windows 10 (or the next long-time-servicing-channel release of Windows Server). So those running Windows 7 or 8 are out of luck if they wanted to plump for the standalone Office apps, as opposed t

Image credit: Owl Car CamSo many awful things can happen to cars when we’re away from them. The new Owl Car Cam seeks to catch both offenders in the act and provide footage of the deed inside and outside of the car if you need it for the police, your insurance company or merely for a private confrontation. You can already find some of these inside-and-out features in other dashboard cameras, but Owl’s camera stands out for being constantly connected and the ease with which it can send footage to

Apple is offering refurbished iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models right now at a 9% and 10% discount, respectively. The 256GB iPhone 7 Plus is $779. There are multiple storage options available for each model iPhone, and the prices fall in between the two mentioned. Multiple color options are also availableFor shoppers concerned that a refurbished model comes with some risks, Apple leaves little to worry about. The supply of these refurbished models is limited, so it’s not certain how long they’ll

The iPhone X is a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to Apple’s earnings. On the flip side, the 10th-anniversary iPhone helped push Apple’s iPhone revenue up by 13% compared to the same quarter last year. The iPhone X, according to Apple, has been the top-selling iPhone every week since it went on sale. Price mattersBut while sales were down, the big jump in iPhone revenue is undoubtedly attributable to the iPhone X price. The iPhone X is heralded by many as the most revolutionary iPhone ever, wit

Judging from a few photos that are starting to pop up on Reddit and Twitter, the Oculus Go standalone virtual reality headset is making its way out to developers. Even better, the photos suggest that the packaging for the device is already finished, suggesting that a public release might be close behind. Developers Jesper Gaarsdal and Unity Studios excitedly posted tweets of the devices on Wednesday along with photos, as VR and Fun reports, but those tweets rapidly vanished, likely after both re

Cloud hosting still won’t be for everyone, and small, simple websites are likely to be better off with regular packages. Check out the best web hosting services for 2018A great option for smaller operationsSimple to useSolid range of plansTemptingly priced with initial discountsCloud hosting isn’t just for big business. But the key advantage of all cloud hosting schemes is scalability. Offers a wide range of plans catering for all usersPowerful Flex planExtras like DDoS protectionCan try before

From next month, China is going to start freezing out overseas VPN providers, blocking them so folks can’t use these services to get round the country’s infamous ‘Great Firewall’. Following reports last summer that such a ban was in the pipeline, according to Radio Free Asia, the government now plans to implement this move at the end of March. Specifically, Zhang Feng, chief engineer from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, clarified that all unlicensed VPN services would be blo

There’s finally good news for those in the US who have experienced LG smartphone bootloop problems: LG is offering affected users a big payout in the form of cash or a rebate. The now-settled lawsuit against LG sees owners of the LG G4, LG G5, LG V10, LG V20 and LG Nexus 5X receiving either $425 in cash, or a $700 credit toward a future LG-made smartphone such as the rumored LG G7 or LG V30 Alpha. We’ve asked LG if the lawsuit reward applies only to customers in the US, or if it will also be han

Microsoft has revealed its latest financial results, and the firm may well be concerned about the lackluster Surface sales which were reported therein. We say ‘only’ because compared to the sizeable gains made elsewhere, revenue for Surface hardware increased by just 1%, effectively remaining stagnant. Which isn’t great considering that Microsoft launched the long-awaited Surface Book 2 last November, as well as the all-new Surface Laptop back in the summer, alongside a refreshed Surface Pro. So

Windows 10 has finally pushed past Windows 7 in terms of overall market share, going by the latest figures from one analytics firm. According to Statcounter, in January’s figures for Windows desktop operating system market share, Windows 10 climbed to reach 42.78%, a jump of 1.09% compared to the previous month. In short, Windows 10 is now king of the desktop operating system hill, some two and a half years after its release. Windows XP still has a 3.36% market share, and even Windows Vista is c

There’s an animated Mario movie on its way to your screens, and given who’s producing it, there’s every possibility it’s going to be good (or at least successful). The flick comes as Nintendo finalizes its deal with Illumination, the production house behind such animated hits as Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, and Minions. Avoiding the banana peelsFor those with long enough memories, the idea of a Mario film will bring back some very vivid images of Dennis Hopper with…um, interesting h

There’s been growing evidence that the LG G7 won’t land at MWC 2018 in late February, and now there’s apparently confirmation of this. That tallies with an earlier Gearburn report claiming that CY Kim, managing director for LG Electronics South Africa, said an upgraded version of the LG V30 would arrive at MWC, while hinting that the LG G7 will be “a little bit late.” This also follows recent reports that LG had gone back to the drawing board with the G7, so a delay doesn’t come as much of a sur

Performance benchmarks of the upcoming Ryzen 2nd generation CPU, the Ryzen 5 2400G, have revealed that its Vega 11 integrated graphics pretty much matches the performance of entry-level graphics cards such as the AMD RX 550 and Nvidia GT 1030. This means that the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G, along with other 2nd generation Ryzen processors built on AMD’s Raven Ridge APU (which combines AMD’s Zen processor architecture with its Vega graphics), could make building a budget gaming PC much cheaper – as you wo