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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…

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…

Second time lucky? Samsung Galaxy Fold is ready to ship, once again

The Samsung Galaxy Fold is now official. Again. The company on Thursday announced that its first foldable smartphone, after months of hits and misses…

Future Google Pixel phone launch not ruled out for SA

Ever since Google Pixel first launched in 2016, one question has been on smartphone enthusiast’s minds: when it is coming to South Africa? Speaking…

The Galaxy Note 10 could be Samsung’s first buttonless phone

Now that the Galaxy Fold is delayed yet again, all eyes are on Samsung’s traditional mid-year flagship, the Galaxy Note 10. But while the…

Huawei’s smartphone market share continues to grow into 2019

According to the latest smartphone shipments report by Gartner, more than 373-million devices were distributed in Q1 2019. That’s a drop of 2.7% compared…

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 wouldn’t look too bad with vertical cameras

Previous leaks have hinted that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 could feature a vertical rear camera array, departing from the now customary horizontal arrangement…

We probably won’t see the Samsung Galaxy Fold until July, report suggests

The Samsung Galaxy Fold’s launch is delayed yet again according to a report on Tuesday The Korea Herald, citing industry sources, states that Samsung…

Poll: we asked if you’d still buy a Huawei device, and here’s what you said

It looks like Huawei’s recent battles with the US government has affected the firm’s reputation locally. Well, at least the reputation with of our…

Mobicel Trendy 2 debuts in South Africa for R899

Local smartphone firm Mobicel on Tuesday announced a new “affordable LTE-enabled smartphone” called the Trendy 2. The successor of the Trendy now sports Android…

Huawei Mate 20 Pro overheats, prompts evacuation of British comedian’s show

If you thought Huawei’s bad month for PR couldn’t get any worse, it did this weekend. A performance by British comedian Jason Mansford had…

TikTok creator Bytedance is developing its own smartphone – report

The maker of China’s viral video app TikTok is considering making its own smartphone, according to a new report. Beijing-based Bytedance is said to…

Samsung’s 5x zoom smartphone cameras ready to go

Samsung’s set to challenge Huawei and Oppo in the optical camera zoom game. According to a report by SamMobile, the Korean firm’s 5x optical…

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 could feature a selfie camera hole in the top-centre of its screen

We’ve grown used to Samsung’s horizontal rear camera array and the small circular and oval cut-outs on the S10 range. But a new leak…

Mid-range match-up: which Huawei or Honor Kirin 710 phone should you buy?

Memes have sprouted about the love Xiaomi had for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, a chipset that found its way into more of the Chinese…

Honor 10 Lite review: want a great selfie camera? Buy a camera

It’s been a difficult week and a half with the Honor 10 Lite. Lauded at its launch as the mid-range selfie-camera king, the phone…

Google launches new ‘high end’ but ‘affordable’ Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL

At its I/O event this week Google revealed its Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL, the company’s “more affordable” range of mobile devices. According…

Samsung still has no idea when the Galaxy Fold will launch

After it was announced in February and was set to debut two months later, it’s now May, and the Samsung Galaxy Fold is still…

Nokia 4.2 is heading to South Africa, pricing and date to be confirmed

HMD Global is about to add yet another smartphone to its South African lineup. After it announced the Nokia 1 Plus last week, and…

Apple found to overestimate its iPhone’s battery life by 50%

We’re all used to overambitious marketing claims made by smartphone companies, but something you don’t expect companies to fib about is their devices’ batteries….

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