Phones
LG announces G7 ThinQ, an AI-heavy phone with an iPhone-style 'notch'
Korean company hopes to stand out from the crowd with impressive display and audio tech, and help from AI.
- by Tim Biggs
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Analysis
Telstra Corporation
Do Australians need an unlimited mobile data plan?
Users risk paying a lot more for data they'll never use, or being stuck in the slow lane if they go over their limit, experts say.
- by Tim Biggs & Jennifer Duke
Companies
Apple to address iPhone X problem, and give plan to fix it, in results
Apple has a "major prove-me" period ahead, as results expected to show slow growth following iPhone X's launch.
- by Mark Gurman
Mobile HDR, Dolby Vision, 4K: can display tech help phones replace TV?
More and more phones are packing HDR and, in some cases, 4K capabilities into their screens. But making good use of them isn't as easy as you might think.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
Opinion
How Samsung could dethrone Apple and become number one in Australia
Moving from second-best to take the top spot is looking like a more difficult prospect every year, unless Samsung can change the game.
- by Alex Kidman
iPhone maker misses out while Apple investors make 950 per cent return
It's been one of the greatest money generating consumer products of all time. Yet those profits have barely spilled over to shareholders of the biggest builder of the iPhone.
- by Richard Frost
Phones
Google to launch an Android chat service akin to Apple's iMessage
Google pauses work on its messaging app Allo and moves focus to RCS, the standard that will replace SMS, which it plans to build into its Android software.
- by Hamza Shaban
Apple
Users don't want iOS to merge with MacOS, Apple chief says
Apple chief executive Tim Cook believes mobile devices and desktop computers should remain in separate worlds with their own bespoke operating systems.
- by Peter Wells
Opinion
Opinion
Sexy selfies just latest step to win complex game of evolution
When a young woman adjusts her bikini provocatively with her phone at the ready, she probably isn’t worrying about succumbing to the patriarchy. She is probably feeling empowered. Looking sexy can generate large returns.
- by Khandis Blake
Telecommunications
The truth behind Optus' ‘unlimited' mobile data offer
Turns out there are limits, especially if you want to download or stream video faster than 1.5Mbps.
- by Ben Grubb
Apple
Apple developing its own screens in-house for the first time, to replace Samsung and LG OLED
Insiders report Apple is creating its own microLED panels, a technology that is slimmer, brighter and less power-hungry than OLED.
- by Mark Gurman