As much as I love Qualcomm and their mobile chipsets, one of the biggest issues Android WearOS has faced is the truly shocking chipsets available to it. We are currently only just seeing watches feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 3100, which launched last year and is based on the SD425 chipset that launched in 2016 that…
Quad cameras are so last week, Xiaomi is now upping the ante once again with the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro taking phone cameras to a new level of crazy, but how far can this trend go? The Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro has been rumoured for the past month or so, but now an official promo…
Saying the new Samsung Galaxy S11 will use the latest flagship chipset from Samsung/Qualcomm is about the most obvious piece of news reporting possible in tech. So as you probably already knew the Samsung Galaxy S11 will come in the usual two variations with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 for the US, and the flagship Exynos…
Yesterday Nvidia finally took the wraps off their new NVIDIA Shield TV and the Pro models with the new tubular-shaped model lowering the price down to £150 compared to the £180 currently charged for the existing model, and making it quite competitive with the new Fire TV Cube at £110. With Black Friday and Christmas…
Most of the smartphones out there today are 4G and they replaced 3G after the introduction of 4G back in 2010. There is no doubt about the fact that it took 4G quite a few years to completely take over 3G but drastic results were seen in the very first year and made mobile phones…
Originally posted in March 2018, I have now updated the post for 2019 to reflect some of the new tech and suggestions. This includes some reader recommendations too In the past couple of years, the home automation industry has boomed, and the traditional Z-wave based systems have lost ground to the new wave of AI-based…
Recently, Realme officially launched in the EU, as part of the launch they announced the new, possibly one of the best phones of the year, Realme X2 Pro. Along with that, they brought the X2 and Realme 5 Pro which has previously been announced in their native countries. With the launch of these three phones,…
I have been waxing lyrical about Realme recently and how they offer unparalleled value for money with their recent launches, in particular, the Realme X2 Pro. Though this is not entirely accurate, the value king has been Xiaomi for several years now, and while Xiaomi doesn’t have something to compete directly with the X2 Pro…
The Apple AirPods Pro has been rumoured for a while now and it looks like the near earphones could make one huge design change from previous Apple earphones. Apple have long bucked the trend of rubber eartips for their earphones, which I have always personally found bizarre as it makes getting a good fit difficult….
Three phones by three companies all with very similar specs, so it comes as no surprise that each company is owned by the same parent company, BBK Electronics. While the Oppo Reno Ace has not been announced in the UK yet, it is expected to soon. The OnePlus 7T was first out the door with an…
Hot on the heels of the Reno2, it is expected that OPPO will launch the Reno Ace in the UK in the near future. On the 24th of October, the successfully filed the trademark application in the EU and UK for the Reno Ace via the FastTrack process. Similar to previous OPPO releases, the Reno…
Apart from security cameras, smart home security products have been slow to take off, in particular in the UK we have had a very limited selection of devices. Yale is the main company that sells both smart locks and a smart home security system. Simplisafe launched their home security system a few months ago in…
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