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The OPPO Reno only launched a few months ago, but they are already refreshing the line-up. Some marketing materials show the phone as 20x Zoom, which implied the same technology as the 10x Zoom Edition. The phone does technically have 20x zoom but this is digital. What you really have is an LED flash assisted…
I watch way too much TV and movies, most of it is streamed, via Netflix or other services or on my local server via both Kodi and Plex. I am always on the quest for the best, and ideally affordable, set-top box to handle all my media needs. The Nvidia Shield is universally praised, many…
[Original 12-September-2019] [Updated 14-September-2019] Added new Antutu and Geekbench results At IFA we saw the announcement of the new Huawei Kirin 990 5G, which for the time promising to be the best Android chipset, at least until the Snapdragon 865 SoC is launched. Yesterday, Apple announced its latest and greatest chipset, the A13 Bionic, which…
Netatmo launched its indoor smart camera back in 2015, and the outdoor camera in 2016. Amazon Alexa was barely a thing then, we didn’t get it in the UK until September 2016, since then it has become trendy to integrate everything with Alexa, useful or not. Netatmo has continued to update their cameras over the…
All the networking companies were jumping on board the Wi-Fi 6 / 802.11ax bandwagon at IFA. With the iPhone 11 featuring the new networking standard, we may start to see it going mainstream over the next 12 months. At the moment things are pricey, the perfect example being the new Netgear Orbi WiFi 6 Tri-band…
One of the big issues with true wireless earphones is there so so battery life. The Anker Soundcore Liberty Neo Total Wireless I previously reviewed are rated for just 3.5 hours, I am lucky to get that, and I nearly always get low battery warnings by the time I am home from the gym. So…
For those of you that don’t have a grand to shell out for a phone with 64GB of storage, thankfully, the iPhone 11 is sort of affordable. If you can live without the glorious OLED display, and a zoom camera, this is the sensible buy, and you get the new-fangled ultra-wide camera which will no…
With most people stuck in the cycle of 2-year contracts and upgrades, a lot of people will no doubt be wondering if it is time to renew their phone contract so they can get the latest and greatest from Apple, the iPhone 11 Pro or Max. To make things less confusing I have separated the…
With the launch of the Samsung Exynos 980 5G, Samsung set a new standard for upper mid-range chipsets. MediaTek, HiSilicon and Qualcomm have all launched their latest upper mid-range chips recently, which promise near-flagship performance but at a more attractive price point. During IFA we had multiple announcements with new chipsets with integrated 5G modems….
An early GeekBench result has leaked for the up and coming Pixel 4 XL, as this will be pre-production it won’t necessarily indicate the final score, nor do I think a few points here and there make any difference for real-world scenarios. However, the leaked GeekBench score shows a result of 2376 and 9045. Comparing…
One of the issues with PC gaming on a TV has always been the refresh rate and lack of variable refresh rate. Samsung has launched the Samsung Q90R QLED with a 120Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync, matching many gaming monitors, but if you prefer OLED then LG may be the way to go. Previously,…
During the HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G announcement, Huawei made some bold claims about the advancement of their AI capabilities. In one fo the slides they claimed up to a three-fold increase compared to the Exynos 9825, you never really know how true these claims are, or what stats they twist to make favour the company….
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