The end of the smartphone wars is almost here. Six years after Apple filed its first lawsuit alleging unauthorised copying of the iPhone, the company will square off at the US supreme court on Tuesday against rival Samsung Electronics. They will argue over
Would I buy Google Home? I’m not sure. Then again, I’m not the target audience, since I’m not interested in Amazon’s Echo either. I like shouting commands at technology: I frequently use Siri to launch mundane tasks like
Samsung Electronics could face an unusual second recall of its Note7 smartphones if one that caught fire aboard an airliner this week is a replacement device as its owner says, two former US safety officials said. The US Federal Aviation
Samsung Electronics’s global recall of Note7 smartphones received a fresh blow after a replacement device was blamed for smoke that led to the evacuation of a Southwest Airlines plane in the US. The Federal Aviation Administration and the Consumer Product Safety
Google is embarking on a wholesale revamp of its mobile phone strategy, debuting a pair of slick and powerful handsets that for the first time will go head-to-head with Apple’s iconic iPhone. The company on
Looking to finally enter the smartphone hardware business, Google is going after a familiar foe: Apple. The maker of the Android mobile operating system unveiled new smartphones on Tuesday, the
The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, along with the new Apple Watch Series 2, will go on sale in South Africa on 14 October. iStore, owned by Apple distributor Core Group, revealed on Friday morning that the devices will go on sale locally
It’s official. BlackBerry, the Canadian company that invented the smartphone and addicted legions of road warriors to the “CrackBerry”, has stopped making its iconic handsets. Finally conceding defeat in a battle lost long ago to Apple
British supercar maker McLaren may be denying that it is in talks with Apple about a potential tie-up, but the firm can’t deny that the idea actually makes some sense. Apple has long been rumoured to be working on its own electric and
The headlines say it all. From “Fitness trackers ‘don’t help weight loss’” through to claims that fitness trackers can “make users fatter” and “That fitness tracker might actually make losing weight harder”. These conclusions by the
