{"id":94837,"date":"2016-06-11T12:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94837"},"modified":"2016-06-11T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T11:27:47","slug":"this-is-the-sickest-cellphone-and-pc-brand-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/94837-this-is-the-sickest-cellphone-and-pc-brand-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"This is the sickest cellphone and PC brand in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung has been\u00a0named the coolest cellphone and coolest computer brand in South Africa.<\/p>\n

This is based on the results of the\u00a012th annual Sunday Times Generation Next youth survey, which polled\u00a05,500 young urban South Africans (aged 8\u201323) to establish which brands are \u201cthe coolest of the cool in 2016\u201d.<\/p>\n

Overall coolest brand was awarded to Nike, which\u00a0also claimed top spot as the coolest clothing brand with the coolest brand slogan. Samsung, Xbox<\/a><\/strong>, and Apple made an appearance in the overall brand rankings.<\/p>\n

As with its surveys from 2009 to 2015, the Coolest Brand Overall winner is determined from the chi-square distances between the top three winners in eight categories.<\/p>\n

They are: coolest cellphone, clothing store, clothing brand, motor vehicle, hi-tech gadget, computer brand, fast food, and cold drink.<\/p>\n

The results of coolest cellphone, computer, and overall brand is shown below.<\/p>\n

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Coolest cellphones<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nCoolest Cellphones 2016<\/th>\nCoolest Cellphones 2015<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nSamsung<\/td>\nSamsung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nApple iPhone<\/td>\nApple iPhone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nSony<\/td>\nBlackBerry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nHuawei<\/td>\nNokia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nBlackberry<\/td>\nHuawei<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nNokia<\/td>\nSony Ericsson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nWindows Phone<\/td>\nLG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nLG<\/td>\nAlcatel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nAlcatel<\/td>\nMotorola<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nOther<\/td>\nOther<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

Coolest computers<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nCoolest Computer Brands 2016<\/th>\nCoolest Computer Brands 2015<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nSamsung<\/td>\nSamsung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nApple Mac<\/td>\nApple Mac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nSony<\/td>\nSony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nLG<\/td>\nLG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nHP<\/td>\nHP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nLenovo<\/td>\nLenovo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nAcer<\/td>\nAcer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nDell<\/td>\nDell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nToshiba<\/td>\nToshiba<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nAlienware<\/td>\nIntel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

Coolest brand overall<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nCoolest Brand Overall 2016<\/th>\nCoolest Brand Overall 2015<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nNike<\/td>\nNike<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nSamsung<\/td>\nCoca-Cola<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nApple<\/td>\nSamsung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nCoca-Cola<\/td>\nMercedes-Benz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nBMW<\/td>\nBMW<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nMercedes Benz<\/td>\nadidas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nadidas<\/td>\nApple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nMr Price<\/td>\nMr Price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nMcDonalds<\/td>\nXbox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nXbox<\/td>\nKFC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More on Samsung<\/h3>\n

The South African pricing for this limited edition Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge is an Injustice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Samsung unveils the smallest 512GB SSD in the world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Samsung announce South African SUHD TV prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sunday Times Generation Next youth survey results for 2016 are out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":94839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2226],"tags":[959,1435,19363],"class_list":["post-94837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-samsung","tag-sunday-times-generation-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}