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StoreDot’s battery can charge your smartphone in 30 seconds

One of the greatest hurdles regarding mobile tech is poor battery life. It usually takes a couple of hours to charge your smartphone, with…

Stanford boffin invents emotion-detecting game controller

Stanford engineers have created technology that may drastically alter the way people experience games in the years to come, reports the University’s newsletter. The…

PS4 beats PC graphics with ‘Kingdom Under Fire II’

Upcoming PS4 game Kingdom Under Fire II is set to have better graphics than its PC counterpart, says game developer Blue Side Studios. According…

Samsung intros Galaxy Ace Style, a mid-range 4″ KitKat cutie

Samsung is the busiest gadget bee on earth, popping out phone after phone at a production-line rate. In this vein, let us introduce the…

DirectX 12: unlocking the full potential of Xbox One gaming

Will the Xbox One become the most powerful console? DirectX 12 is coming, and it promises to change the Xbox One from top to…

MetaWear will bring wearable tech to the masses

MetaWear is a tiny development board meant for people who want to create or hack their own wearable tech. The Kickstarter project raised its funding goal…

PS4 more powerful than Xbox One, but does it matter?

The console war, a mythical battle between the top tier current-gen machines, namely the Xbox One and PS4, is a one-sided skirmish Sony’s already…

Leaked specs for next Xbox reveals blu-ray drive, 8GB ram and 8-core CPU

This site reports that it is has supposedly received the leaked system specs for the next-gen Xbox. The site also reports that in the coming…

LG’s Optimus G Pro is a 1080p 5-inch Phablet with style

Mobile World Congress 2013 is teasing us a range of ultra-desirable 1080p phones such as LG’s Optimus Pro G. LG previously released the well-received…

‘Landscape House’ to be worlds first 3D printed home

3D printing has evolved quite exponentially from its initial coinage in 1995 by graduate students Jim Bredt and Jim Anderson when they altered and…

Samsung outs 8-inch Galaxy Note, just in time for MWC

Mobile World Congress is fast approaching and with it, a slew of phones you never heard of, or needed. Take the recently-announced 8-inch Galaxy…

The Medias W N-05E proves that two screens are better than one

We’ve said before. If any nation deserves the acronym “crazy”, it’s the Japanese. “Hey, let’s make a smartphone with two screens that fold together”…

iOS 6.0 Jailbreak in progress, but far from ready

It’s been quiet on the jailbreak front. Apple’s latest, iOS 6 is a tough nut to crack but famed hacker Planetbeing, in conjunction with…

The new Sony Xperia Tablet Z: lo and behold it’s thinner than the iPad

Steve Jobs may have coined the “thinner and lighter” idea and pushed extensively for it in the quest for perfection, but Sony it seems…

This could be the HTC M7

Rumours abound of HTC’s latest flagship smartphone, the M7. This site (and this one) were some of the first to publish pictures of the…

Sony’s DualShock controller set to change after 16 years

The old faithful Sony PlayStation DualShock controller, synonymous with PS consoles, could be at the end of its day. What has over the last…

Almost affordable: Apple sells $1 439 refurbished Retina Display MacPros

Yessir, Apple’s refurbished computer section at the Apple store now sells refurbished 13.3 inch Retina Display MacPro’s for US$1 439. Not only that, but…

Asus WL-330NUL is ‘world’s smallest USB wireless router’

It was mentioned (albeit very briefly) in the official Asus press release (translated) for CES 2013, and during the show it went almost unnoticed….

CST-01: a watch so thin you won’t even feel it on your arm

Started as a Kickstarter concept, the CST-01 has amassed more than US$500 000 in funding since 8 January. At just 0.8mm thick and weighing…

Next-gen console madness from Sony and Microsoft

How many years have we been speculating about the release of Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen consoles? Five years? Ten? How long have the rumours…

Further Exynos security updates being pushed OTA to Galaxy owners

Just two weeks ago Gearburn reported on the security issue that affected Galaxy owners with Exynos processors (and probably other devices with the same…

Asus looks to Windows Phone OS for the next-gen Padfone

Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer Inc. is apparently in talks with Microsoft could become the latest Asian manufacturer build a Windows Phone device. At…

ZTE’s U956 phablet exposed

Pictures of a possible bang-for-your-buck phablet from ZTE, called the U956, has been leaked on Sina Weibo. If an illustrious smartphone is not in…

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

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

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

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