Author: Brett Venter

Space. The final frontier. The place where no-one can hear you scream.  And, apparently, the place you import the finest zoom from — at least, if you believe Samsung’s claims about its all-new flagship device, the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Yes, that S20 Ultra. It’s totally real. And, with the new handset, Samsung’s hoping to take some of the shine from Huawei’s camera hardware, using a little something the company calls Space Zoom. To Infinity! You see, the Ultra gets its title from the quad rear camera arrangement that uses Samsung’s newest, largest sensors. The main lens is a 108MP ISOCELL…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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