Author: Brett Venter

We’ve been privy to some unusually-detailed Apple leaks for 2018, from a very good look at the company’s newest smartphones (and a glance at the Apple Watch 4) to an early view of a new iPad Pro. And now we might have a name for Apple’s expected 6.5in iPhone — though it’s a bit of a weird one: the iPhone Xs Max. Last week we found out that the new iPhones would be branded under the iPhone XS (or Xs) label but Apple doesn’t ever use the same titles for different sized devices. Traditionally larger phones carry the Plus moniker…

Samsung has long been rumoured to be working on a foldable smartphone, with the really smart money being on the device carrying the Galaxy X designation when it (eventually) drops. At least ‘eventually’ has just been upgraded to ‘some time this year’, according to a new report from CNBC in the States. Samsung Mobile CEO, DJ Koh, according to the report, has confirmed that Samsung’s foldable device will be launching to market some time this year, though no specifics were discussed and Mr Koh very unkindly declined to elaborate on any hardware specifics the smartphone will include. But it’s not…

Huawei's P20 Pro is getting a few new colour options, plus leather backs (for China) Huawei's P20 Pro is a very, very nice phone. And it's about to get even nicer, if you're after something that looks a little different from the 'stock' P20 Pro. Huawei has announced new colour options for the handset, which

If you were wondering whether the LG V40 was going to be worth waiting for, you’ve now got enough information to make your choice — on paper, anyway. The specs for the V40 have leaked. All of the specs, which go nicely with the renders that were recently created from CAD files that also leaked. What we now know from the LG V40 specs leak is that LG is going to be taking on the Galaxy Note 9 — size-wise, at least. The V40 is going to include a 6.4in qHD+ pOLED (plastic OLED) screen, a Snapdragon 845 processor (and…

It’s the date announcement that we, and a substantial portion of the world, have been waiting for. Apple’s iPhone announcement event for 2018 has been dated — 12 September is the day that you’re going to have to book the evening off for so you can see what Apple has up their sleeves. Speaking of which, we’ve got an usual leak from the usually tight-lipped Apple — the iPhone XS. The image you can see above comes by way of 9to5Mac, which has featured it with the prominent caption “Not a mockup”. What you’re looking at is Apple’s iPhone XS,…

It just just a couple of years ago that we were impressed by this time-lapse of a Lego Porsche 911 GT3 build, a task that took far longer than the compressed 25 minutes. We’d absolutely love to see how long it took to build Lego’s life-sized Bugatti Chiron, which uses more than a million pieces of Lego Technic in its construction. And if your first question is ‘Why?’ then you might as well leave now — you’re dead to us. The only acceptable question starting with ‘Why’ is ‘Why not?’ Lego built this working vehicle as part of their ad…

We’ve only just had our best early look at an Apple phone since that time someone accidentally left a prototype in a pub but there’s something else that you might have overlooked in the excitement. Rumour is a fickle beast, especially when Apple is the subject, but there’s a fairly credible case for the company doing something unprecedented with an iPhone soon — making a dual-SIM variant. If you blinked you might have missed it but earlier this week we mentioned that Apple might be planning on dropping a dual-SIM iPhone — on select regions — some time this year.…

Okay, how many times is LG going to be releasing the LG G7? We’ve already got the G7 ThinQ and now the South Korean company has announced two more entrants in the G7 series: An Android One handset called the G7 One and a cheaper version of their flagship device called the G7 Fit. Both handsets are on show at this year’s IFA conference in Berlin, Germany but LG has spilled all of the beans before anyone’s so much as gotten their hands on these two. This is what we know. LG G7 One LG’s G7 One is the company’s…

Developer and publisher CD Projekt RED set their bar high with The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt before calling the series a day and moving on to their next big project — Cyberpunk 2077, an action-RPG based on the pen-and-paper RPG of the same name. We’ve been excited about the game since their initial announcement, when it was little more than a logo and a bit of concept art. But now we’ve finally got something to follow that (eventual) E3 trailer — 48 minutes of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay. 48 minutes of gameplay which, the devs were at pains to stress,…

If you’re old enough to remember the Streets of Rage series, odds are you’re… pretty old. Over 30 still counts as old these days, right? Well, if you do have memories of this side-scrolling beat-em-up series then you probably remember the Sega Megadrive (or Genesis, depending on where you sourced your gaming hardware) and blowing on cartridges to ‘make them work’. Would you have guessed that we’d see Streets of Rage 4 being announced in 2018? The last game in the series, Streets of Rage 3, launched on the Megadrive back in 1994, the same year that South Africa held…