Mobile Phones

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…

Nokia 8 gets DxOMark camera results: it’s not good

DxOMark has emerged as one of the foremost websites for smartphone photography, attempting to benchmark photos, videos and other aspects of the mobile photography…

Galaxy S9 reveal set for MWC – report

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 is one of the most eagerly anticipated smartphones of the year, but when will we actually see it being revealed? Now,…

The Moviphone has budget specs, steep price, but packs a projector

We’ve seen smartphones with projectors before, with Samsung’s Galaxy Beam being the most prominent example. Now, at CES 2018, we’ve seen a new phone…

Sony Xperia XA2, XA2 Ultra set for April launch in SA

The Sony Xperia XA2 and XA2 Ultra were the two best mobile offerings from the Japanese firm at CES 2018, delivering some solid upgrades…

Project Linda: a laptop shell for Razer Phone with 120Hz display

The Razer Phone was one of the more interesting releases of 2017, bringing flagship-level specs and a Nextbit-style design to the smartphone world. But…

Vivo demos in-display fingerprint scanner at CES 2018

It’s the holy grail of mobile biometric authentication right now, and Chinese brand Vivo seems to have pulled it off first. At CES 2018,…

Here’s why your budget phone might not be vulnerable to Meltdown, Spectre

AMD, ARM and Intel have made headlines recently following the disclosure of processor exploits (dubbed Meltdown and Spectre). The exploits centre on the “speculative…

Nokia 6 2018 is now official in China

The first Nokia-branded smartphone under HMD Global was the Nokia 6, having made its debut a year ago in China. Now, the Nokia 6…

Exynos 9810: specs emerge for Galaxy S9 chip

The Exynos 9810 was quietly revealed last month, being the latest flagship processor for Samsung‘s smartphones. Details were light on the ground at the…

Hisense P9 leaks, packing 6GB RAM, huge battery, rugged design

Hisense has gradually been climbing up the smartphone ladder, delivering a few affordable yet tough devices locally in the past 24 months. Now, it appears…

Could this new Nokia 3310 model have WhatsApp?

The Nokia 3310 reboot was one of the biggest tech stories of 2017, as HMD Global launched a modernised version of the iconic phone….

Leak: here’s why Snapdragon 460 might be 2018’s superstar budget chip

The Snapdragon 670 isn’t the only chip apparently leaked in recent days, as the Snapdragon 640 and Snapdragon 460 were also outlined in the…

Snapdragon 670: a more powerful processor than Snapdragon 835?

The Snapdragon 835 was easily the most popular processor for flagship Android phones, beating the likes of Samsung, Huawei‘s HiSilicon and Mediatek. Now, a…

Now Xiaomi has copied Apple’s gestures

Xiaomi gained a reputation in its early years as a company that heavily copied Apple, from hardware design and product names to the look…

Watch these 5 smartphone brands in 2018

2017 was a year for tall screens and itsy bitsy borders, delivering high-end smartphones with a distinctive look compared to years prior. Apple, Samsung,…

Gearburn’s top 10 smartphone features of 2017

Yes yes, every website and their mum is doing a yearly roundup article — we’re just joining the party. But we had plenty of…

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