After months of hype and leaks, AMD has finally announced Zen 2 with 5 new chips forming the AMD Ryzen 3000 series family. Many of the previous leaks seemed too good to be true with claims of 16 core chips with a boost of over 5Ghz. Well, they were too good to be true, what…
And it’s finally official! The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X has been officially announced with 12-core, 24-thread, 4.6Ghz Boost, 3.8Ghz 105W. AMD announced they have increased the single threaded performacne by 32% from the last first generation Zen chips, and doubled the multi thread performance. They put the new flagship chip up against the £1k+ Intel…
Oppo has been a big player in the Chinese market for years, with UK users having to resort to grey import sites for their phones in the past. However back in January they officially launched in the UK and we now have access to some of their superb phones. The Oppo RX17 Pro has been…
AMD will hold their keynote speach in less than 24 hours and we will finally have full details of the latest Zen 2 AMD CPUs which could shake up the market as much as the origina Ryzen launch. A new entry has popped up on Geekbench 4 which reveals that a 6 core, 12 thread…
Mattress shopping seems complicated, but you can make it easy. All you need to do is know some basic information about yourself and what you like. In fact, the factors in picking out your mattress can be boiled down to two basic pieces of information. While there is extra stuff associated with mattress shopping, the…
With Xiaomi upgrading the new Redmi 7A from the Mediatek MT6761 Helio A22 to the Snapdragon 439 it is worth looking at how these two chipsets compare and if the Redmi 7A is a big upgrade from the 6A. Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 The Snapdragon 439 was launched in June 2018 and is a low mid-tier…
For under £100 the Xiaomi Redmi 6A has stood out as the best budget phone in the UK for the past year. While it obviously lacks the wow factor of any flagship or even mid-range phone, it was perfectly usable for day to day functions including browsing the web, social media, and YouTube. Even the…
Hot on the tails of the Garmin product releases, Suunto has announced their latest watch, the Suunto 5, which is launched after the Suunto 9. Rather than name things in chronological order, the Suunto 5 fits in as the mid-range watch of the series. Amazon has the watch at a pre-order price of £299 whereas…
The Samsung Galaxy A70 was only announced in March, which only recently becoming available to buy, but it looks like Samsung are already updating it, with an S variant. The Galaxy A70S will be the worlds first phone to feature a 64MP camera sensor, in comparison most of the high MP phones, such as the…
One of the big issues with wireless CCTV cameras is the regular need to charge or replace the batteries. With some companies, like Eufy, you can go several months between charges, while Reolink offers a solar adaptor to provide some extra juice. The Soliom Solar Cam follows a similar concept as Reolink, but the solar…
It has been a long time since I reviewed any wired earphones, with the trend leaning towards Bluetooth. However, a lot of people still love wired earphones, they technically offer superior audio performance, require no charging, there are less things to go wrong, and they are cheaper than their wireless counterparts. But what if you…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics have just started to mass-produce a 5x optical zoom camera module, the company revealed in a recent announcement. This means the module is ready to be featured in smartphones. The typical struggle in designing smartphone zoom lenses is getting them small enough. Manufacturers are constantly trying to make phones as slim and compact as possible,…
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