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Newsdeck: Samsung Launches $1,980 Galaxy Fold Phone That Turns Into TabletSamsung Electronics Co. unveiled a $1,980 smartphone with a foldable screen, a dramatic shift in the mass market for phones.
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TELEVISION: Young local film creatives get a break on mainstream video platformAfrican film school AFDA and Showmax have embarked on a partnership to give local filmmakers a bigger and better platform to kickstart their careers. From 18 February, 18 of the best short films by AFDA students from Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, and Port Elizabeth campuses will be available on the streaming service. For the students, it’s potentially the break they’ve been waiting for.
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Huawei announces folding 5g smartphoneHuawei Technologies unveiled a folding smartphone on Sunday which it said was primed for next generation 5G mobile connections, even as the United States campaigns to bar the Chinese company from such networks over security concerns. Huawei, the world’s second-largest smartphone vendor after Samsung, said it had taken the lead on developing phones for 5G - which promise super fast internet speeds for consumers and businesses - because it was also involved in developing the networks.
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Samsung launches folding smartphoneThe Fold will be available April 26 starting at $1,980 (about R27,708), the company said.
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Samsung launches Galaxy Fold smartphoneThe South Korean tech giant bids to rev up the market with its latest release.
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#RandReport: Rand falls as risk demand cools, stocks inch upAt 1508 GMT, the rand was 0.43% weaker at 13.8850 per dollar, compared to a close of 13.8250 on Monday.
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'I am guilty as charged': Zim central bank governor on overvalued bond notesZimbabwe central bank governor Dr John Mangudya has admitted prejudicing the country’s exporters by exchanging their US dollar earnings at parity with the local bond note, when rates on the parallel market were at a 400% premium.
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