On the surface, the Mate 20 Pro combines all of 2018’s trendiest technology into one portable device…and then some.

This year, there’s a new flaship on the block that looks set to give 2018’s biggest manufacturers a run for their money: The Xiaomi Mi 8. And good lord, is it sexy.

Revealed just over a week ago in Paris, the Huawei P20 series of phones - that’s the P20 Pro, the P20 and the P20 lite – are all available in South Africa today.

Last night, Samsung unveiled its brand new Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+. Samsung promised it would change the way that we communicate, and bandied about the idea that this new phone would “reimagine” cameras on phones.

You may not be aware of it because they’re not nearly as ubiquitous, but Taiwanese computer hardware maker Asus dabbles in phones too. Now comes word that they want to release a phone for gamers.

The G6 is LG’s most exciting and well-rounded phone in years. It’s not perfect; the audio is middling and the battery could be better, but it’s a fantastic phone that catapults LG back to the upper echelon of smartphone manufacturers.

Last night revealed the next generation of the Samsung flagship device. A phone with almost invisible seams, wrapped in a screen that boasts an Infinity Display across the entire surface area of the S8. After last year’s PR disaster with the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the house of Sam is looking to make a statement with their latest handheld that is banking on the slimmest of bezels, an intelligent assistant feature in the form of Bixby and the new Samsung Dex that will turn the S8 into a mini-PC for your external displays.

In the world of smartphones, time waits for no device and a company can quickly find itself left behind to eat dust by its competition. After the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 proved to be a massive disaster for the company, the house of Sammy needs to step up to the plate to regain some consumer trust. Which they’re hoping to do with the S8 phone that looks rather minimalist.