Mobile Phones

Pixel 3s, V40s and Mate 20s: October’s a busy month for smartphone lovers

Welcome to smartphone launch silly season. Now that Apple has paraded its three new iPhone X devices for the world and its competitors to…

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 reportedly catches fire in woman’s bag

A Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has reportedly caught fire inside a woman’s purse, she claims in a lawsuit. According to a New York Post…

Gallery: 15 pictures of the new BlackBerry Key 2 unboxed

BlackBerry is back with a brand new smartphone. It’s called the Key 2, and recently launched in South Africa. And yes, the phone gives…

OnePlus 6T will ditch the headphone jack, but it’s not what fans want

The next OnePlus smartphone will not have a headphone jack. In the latest episode of Why OEMs Hate Legacy But Useful Hardware Standards, the…

Watch JerryRigEverything mildly destroy a shiny new Pocophone F1

I guess someone has to do it, right? The Pocophone F1 is a remarkable device. Beneath its US$300 skin lies the same chipset you…

iPhone XR: Apple’s budget smartphone will cost $749

The iPhone XR (pronounced “ten-arr”) is the company’s spiritual successor to the iPhone 5C. The aluminium device also sports an IP67 rating, with a…

This is the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, coming to SA on 28 September

It’s “the most advanced iPhone we have ever created” said Time Cook about the iPhone XS. But I mean, were we expecting anything less?…

Nokia 8: 8 things you should know about HMD’s new flagship

True to the leaks, HMD revealed the Nokia 8 last night, being the first flagship from the new custodians of the Nokia mobile brand….

How well are HMD’s Nokia smartphones selling in South Africa?

News that Nokia smartphones would be brought back by Finnish company HMD Global was greeted cautiously. After all, there’s more to Nokia than just…

Exclusive: Nokia 8 set for South Africa in September [Update: Vodacom confirms]

Update, 2:57pm, 16 August 2017: Cellucity isn’t the only retailer to confirm that the Nokia 8 will be coming to South Africa in September,…

At least one of the Pixel 2 models will have squeezable edges

Google’s Pixel 2 smartphones are still a while away, but we’ve already seen images leak as well as other details. Now, official documents filed…

Expect more phones with iris scanning, depth sensing thanks to Qualcomm

Qualcomm is one of the biggest players in the smartphone space, its chipsets powering loads of devices around the world. Now, the company has…

Photo comparison: Galaxy S8 vs XZ Premium

The Samsung Galaxy S8 has built on the extremely solid foundation set by the S7, featuring the same camera sensor but with a renewed…

A few neat uses for the Xperia XZ Premium super slow-mo

The Sony Xperia XZ Premium is certainly one of the most cutting edge smartphones we’ve ever reviewed at Gearburn. Between the Snapdragon 835 processor…

Will Kirin 970 be first to use ARM’s new CPU, GPU cores?

Huawei’s Kirin 970 has apparently kicked off mass production, being expected to power the Mate 10 and a few other Huawei/Honor devices in the…

Huawei’s Kirin 970 chip, set to power Mate 10, enters ‘mass production’

Huawei’s HiSilicon has made impressive strides with its mobile processors. Last year’s Kirin 950 saw the company take a big step up in the…

Nokia 8 set for reveal this week: what to expect?

HMD’s Nokia smartphones seem to be enjoying brisk sales thus far, but the flagship Nokia 8 is also set to be revealed this week….

LG V30 will let you copy manual settings from photos on the web

LG is continuing its slow tease of the V30 smartphone, having revealed camera details and screen information before. Now, the latest tease sees the…

Sharp, the original thin bezel player, has another impressive phone

Sharp wowed the tech sector a few years ago when it showed off the Aquos Crystal, offering a hitherto unseen screen/body ratio and thin…

Xiaomi Redmi 4X is next phone set for South Africa

Local Xiaomi distributor MIA Group has been teasing a new product reveal on its Facebook pages. But could it be the Mi 6? Well,…

LG V30 to use f/1.6 main camera, company reveals

It seems like yesterday that LG and Samsung were sparring over who had the biggest aperture on their smartphones. The LG G4 (review) and…

BlackBerry KeyOne hands-on: a dying donkey, or an inspired dark horse?

Remember BlackBerry? Remember those budget Curve devices that introduced a slew of people to the internet? Remember BIS? The service that offered users a…

Galaxy S8 Active now official: what’s new then?

Samsung’s Galaxy S8 Active has officially been revealed, coming in as an AT&T exclusive for now. Of course, it’s not the first time we…

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

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HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

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