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The selfie camera on this Oppo phone is hiding beneath the screen

After a brief tease found its way onto Twitter earlier this month, Chinese smartphone giant Oppo is this week showcasing the first device with…

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…

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…

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 debuts at MWC 2019, will cost $3500

Microsoft at its MWC 2019 conference on Sunday revealed its HoloLens 2, the company’s updated augmented reality headset. In a blog post, Microsoft explained…

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…

Official: This is the Huawei Mate X, the company’s first foldable phone

The Huawei vs Samsung rivalry is back in full swing. And we’re absolutely loving it. Today, the Chinese company debuted its foldable smartphone, the…

Huawei Mate X foldable phone leaks (again) hours before MWC 2019 event

We’re less than two hours away from Huawei’s MWC 2019 presser, but already, the big surprise has been spoiled. Once more. Twitter user Lazar…

Xiaomi’s Snapdragon 855, triple-camera Mi 9 will cost €449

Update: At the company’s MWC 2019 conference today, Xiaomi finally gave us a European price for the Xiaomi Mi 9. The device, the first…

Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G will cost just €599, available in May

Xiaomi kicked off MWC 2019 by talking none other than 5G. But after a long song and dance about IoT and 5G’s performance, the…

Oppo’s next flagship will have a mental 10x zoom camera system

News of Oppo’s ambitious 10x lossless zoom first leaked in January, but today, journalists in Barcelona got a taste of it in the flesh….

Archos Oxygen 68XL wants to make the corner notch a thing

The notch be a 2018 fad that’s slowly making way for pop-up cameras and in-display selfie snappers, but some firms just can’t seem to…

Big leak: is the ‘Huawei Mate X’ the company’s foldable smartphone?

Huawei may have just inadvertently let one out of the bag, and a big, foldable one at that. According to an image of a…

Huge leak: Sony Xperia 1 flagship, three other phones leak ahead of MWC

Well, there goes another surprise. Sony is the latest company to suffer from a huge info leak just prior to its MWC 2019 press…

Sony’s simplifying its naming scheme with the royal purple ‘Xperia 1’

According to serial leaker Evan Blass, Sony is set to simplify its confusing smartphone nomenclature with its latest flagship. The Sony Xperia XZ4 will…

Energizer set to launch 26 smartphones at MWC 2019

It’s weird when hip-hop artists suddenly become small business investors, or when car manufacturers make phones and fridges, right? Well, it’s also pretty strange…

VR entertainment could be coming to a British Airways flight near you

Google updates Chrome OS with better navigation and audio control

YouTube to stop monetisation of ‘unfair’ manual copyright claims

Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [18/8/2019]

Five SA fintechs that service the growing market of SME lending

AlphaCode awards R16m in grants, support services to eight black-owned SA fintechs

Some older Nokia smartphones to receive an extra year of updates

The foldable Huawei Mate X is now delayed until November

Open-world Need for Speed Heat is launching in November

Audi’s new cars in Germany will count you down, pace you to green lights

Two Ford Focus trim levels also found to have lock issues

South Africa’s govt ministers really love German cars and big Toyotas report reveals

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