Mobile Phones

Apple reveals iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

Apple on Tuesday officially revealed its latest “pro line” iPhones in the form of the 5.8-inch iPhone 11 Pro and the 6.5-inch iPhone 11 Pro…

The $699 iPhone 11 comes in more colours with two cameras at the rear

The iPhone 11 is now available in more than just three colours. Taking a leaf out of the XR’s playbook, you can now choose…

LG G8X ThinQ will let you use two screens on one smartphone

LG’s foldable smartphone is a much cheaper, more practical and less sophisticated solution to the likes of the Galaxy Fold and Mate X. The…

TCL Plex could be IFA 2019’s best smartphone newcomer

TCL is the company behind the likes of Alcatel and BlackBerry’s recent smartphones, but it’s now releasing its first smartphone under its own brand….

Huawei unveils the Kirin 990 5G chipset for its future flagship phones

Huawei has a new flagship chipset called the Kirin 990. Unveiled at IFA 2019 in Berlin, Germany on Friday, the 7 nm chipset will…

Nokia 7.2 and 6.2 draw design inspiration from the Lumia 950 XL

HMD Global today announced the Nokia 7.2 and Nokia 6.2 at IFA 2019 in Berlin, Germany. The upper mid-range devices are aesthetically similar, but…

Sony Xperia 5: the return of the ‘compact’ phone is massive

Hilariously, it seems that if you want a compact flagship smartphone in 2019, 6.1 inches is the screen size you’re going to get. Sony…

It takes deep, deep scratches to kill the Galaxy S10’s ultrasonic fingerprint sensor

Zack Nelson, better known as YouTube’s favourite smartphone durability tester JerryRigEverything, recently found himself a Samsung Galaxy S10 to destroy. I mean, someone has…

Huawei Y7 2019 now available in South Africa for R3999

Huawei’s latest budget smartphone arrives in South Africa today. Called the Huawei Y7 2019, the features a large 6.26 inch LCD display with a…

Fxtec’s Pro1 smartphone sports a sliding keyboard like the good old days

Phones with physical keyboards have long been usurped by traditional glass slab designs, and more recently foldables. But one company (besides BlackBerry) is hanging…

Miss all the MWC 2019 news? Relive the conference here

Happy Smartphone Christmas, ahem, I mean, MWC 2019 everyone! Our live blog, like the conference itself, has come and gone. We’ve enjoyed every minute…

Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 7 Pro debuts in India with more nut-cracking specs

Xiaomi on Thursday unveiled its upper mid-range challenger in the form of the Redmi Note 7 Pro. The phone, which looks awfully similar to…

Samsung’s eUFS 3.0 is set to make your future phone’s storage a lot faster

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 was the first phone to feature the fast eUFS 3.0 (embeded Universal Flash Storage) standard, but now the company has announced…

South Africa’s getting the ‘slower’ Samsung Galaxy S10 variant, benchmarks suggest

If you couldn’t care less about benchmarks and actually use your smartphone as a phone, this news probably won’t apply to you. But if…

Sony Xperia 1 is coming to SA in July with Xperia 10, 10 Plus and L3 in March

We’ve some good news for Sony fans. For a while many believed that the company was set to pull out of South Africa, citing…

ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G is proof the Chinese company is alive and well again

ZTE, the Chinese smartphone maker seemingly back from near-death, has debuted its first 5G smartphone at MWC 2019. Dubbed the Axon 10 Pro 5G,…

Energizer’s Power Max P18K Pop smartphone has a 18000mAh battery

Smartphone makers have officially lost their minds this year. Foldable devices, 5G support, crazy camera arrays. You name it, we’ve seen it at MWC…

Gearburn’s MWC 2019 smartphone power rankings

We’re barely into day two of MWC 2019 and already, we’ve seen a slew of new flagship smartphones from almost every big manufacturer. So…

Samsung Galaxy A30, A50 mid-rangers get big feature improvements

With all these foldable smartphones and talk of 5G, you’d easily forget that there’s actually a mid-range and budget smartphone segment. On Monday, Samsung…

Sony Xperia 1 sports 21:9 4K OLED screen, three rear cameras

Sony on Monday officially revealed its new 21:9 aspect ratio smartphone assault team, targeting the mid-range and flagship sectors. First up was the Sony…

LG debuts V50 with 5G, second screen attachment, and G8 with ‘Hand ID’

LG failed to livestream its MWC 2019 event on Sunday, leaving a slew of people in the dark. But thankfully, nothing groundbreaking or bendable…

It’s official: the Nokia 9 PureView’s insane five-camera array is here

The Nokia 9 PureView is finally, finally official, the company’s product head Juho Savikas announced on Sunday. With its five cameras, the device looks…

HMD Global announces Nokia 210, Nokia 1.1 Plus, Nokia 3.2 and Nokia 4.2

HMD Global on Sunday announced a number of devices set to arrive for consumers in 2019. Nokia 210 This is the company’s most affordable…

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