Author: Brett Venter

Samsung’s throwing as much power as they can at its smartphones this year, in the hopes that you’ll be convinced that a Galaxy flagship is all you’ll need for the rest of the year. Whether you’re actually convinced… well, that’s on you.

Looks aren't everything. That's quite the claim to make in a world where being famous on Instagram can make you loads of money -- which is fine 'cos you'll need the cash for spinal ops from holding all those odd (but photogenic) poses. But looks really don't matter. They're nice to have. But they don't

Samsung will reveal its newest collection of handsets tomorrow evening, 11 February, but if you were present at the Oscars this weekend (apparently they do tech reveals now), you would have gotten an early preview. And, because everyone carries a recording device these days, you didn’t actually have to be present. The ad shown for Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip was captured, of course, and uploaded to the internet. You can see it below. You’re gonna Flip https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1226678928120655872 Samsung’s ad shows off the phone in action, though with several caveats tucked away in random corners. One of those is that a…

Do you really need Audi’s refreshed and sporty new A1? Heck no, it’s a luxury car, albeit an entry level one. Nobody needs a luxury car, no matter what the salesman wants you to believe. Do you really want one? That’s affirmative, Red Leader.

Vodacom has resorted to using diesel generators to prop up some older cellular towers, which are battling with Eskom’s constant outages. We asked the company what plans it hard to mitigate issues the country’s power provider is causing for the network.

Now that you’ve seen the headline, go and update your WhatsApp Desktop app right now. Whether you’re on Windows or macOS, there’s a security flaw in older versions of the app that could allow access to the files on your machine. The flaw can be exploited by receiving a special message, one designed to give its sender access to files and other information on your computer. Sounds familiar — though probably not quite as problematic. The folks over at PerimeterX explain exactly how the exploit works and what sort of information can be accessed. Long story short, the affected versions…

LG Electronics, they of the G-series smartphones and a few other smartphone ranges we don’t hear enough about, has pulled out of this year’s Mobile World Congress event being held in Barcelona, Spain from 24 to 27 February. The culprit, of course, is the coronavirus taking over social media. The infectious disease has turned up in several countries around the world, having infected more than 20,000 people and killed nearly 500 to date. Following suit LG’s decision to pull out of the conference isn’t the first. Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has also chosen not to attend, for the same reasons.…

Folks have been predicting the end of BlackBerry for a very long, long time. And, when the company announced that it would cease manufacturing its own hardware in 2016, it seemed the end was nigh. Now, finally, the end is in sight for BlackBerry as a smartphone brand. The end of an era An announcement, via Twitter, concerning current hardware-maker TCL Communications’ contract with BlackBerry spells the end for the brand at last. According to the announcement, BlackBerry’s time is up from 31 August 2020, when TCL loses “…rights to design, manufacture, or sell any new BlackBerry Mobile devices.” The…

Hey kids, here’s a trick you can try at home — right up until Google figures out how to stop you from doing it (seriously though, don’t do this in South Africa). A chap by the name of Simon Weckert caused a traffic jam using nothing more than a little red cart and a whole buncha phones. On a go-slow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q You can see the actual hack in the video above and it’s just what it looks like. A lone man with a cart trundling down an empty road, mucking with Google’s results. All that’s involved are some 99 smartphones…

Late last year South African mobile service operators Vodacom and MTN were instructed to drop the prices of… well, everything from calls to data. They were given 60 days in order to do so and as of today, those 60 days are up.