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The new iPhone 6.1 inch LCD screen model and how it’s likely to fit into the new iPhone range and its importance to buyers of ‘lower’ priced Apple handsets. Big screen smartphone to be one of three new Apple models for 2018 Speculation regarding the next Apple iPhone’s features and spec usually starts not long…
Huami Amazfit smartwatches have been very successful in the past year or so, going against the grain of fully featured Wear OS based watches running Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100. The Amazfit range of smartwatches uses a proprietary OS with no third-party support and typically they use a low-cost Mediatek chipset. While there is no app support they offer most of…
The Android-based Wear OS platform has been getting a little long in the tooth with the platform struggling to gain traction, this has partly been down to no new system on chip being launched for it in the past 3 years. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 is the first new chip to land for the wearables platform…
With the growth of electric and hybrid cars, a common cause for concern is how the electricity is being generated in the first place. Are you really reducing your carbon footprint driving a Tesla powered by electricity from a coal plant? Things are improving, in 2013 renewable energy accounted for 14.9% of the energy produced…
Following IFA 2018 the world of the smart home finally appears to be coming commonplace within the kitchen. Whether you are getting a completely new kitchen or just looking for some new tech to get to make things a little easier when cooking we have compiled a list of our top things to buy for…
A lot of Apple fans mock Android manufacturers for copying the notch design, but this trend isn’t exclusive to Apple. Vivo NEX came up with a beautiful and innovative solution to the notch with their pop up camera, it is likely that this design then inspired the OPPO Find X slide out camera design, and now we are seeing…
A new leaked roadmap report from Wccftech shows us the timeline for the AMD Navi based GPUs and it is not great for PC gamers. A few days ago we saw the release of Nvidia’s latest and greatest GPUs the GTX 2080 and 2080 ti, these new cards implemented a new feature not found in consumer…
TVs have a significant presence at IFA providing a welcome variety compared to the mobile focussed MWC. After years of waiting for OLED to go mainstream this year finally appears to be the one where we have achieved it. Not only are OLED displays readily available from multiple companies, but the prices are dropping quickly….
There has been some speculation that the new range of Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 cards cannot perform quite as well as you would hope for a new generation of GPU. The concern was highlighted during a Tomb Raider demo at Gamescom where the ray tracing enabled game could barely manage 30 to 60 frames per second at Full…
I previously compared the three flagship system on chips from Huawei, Qualcomm and Samsung against each other and at the time, on paper, the Kirin 970 was fractionally behind the other 2 SoCs, which was due to the Kirin 970 being announced 6 months prior. Now the tables have turned and the HiSilicon Kirin 980 is the newest chip…
With my time over at IFA for 2018, I have selected my favourite products of the year in no particular order. There were a lot of highlights this year, and I may do another post to point out honourable mentions. One trend that was obvious during MWC 2018 earlier in the year was it all…
Dell has been busy with announcing products at Gamescom 2018, then immediately after releasing more products at IFA 2018. Along with the below announcements, Dell had on show several of their new Alienware PCs which feature the latest Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics cards. Launch highlights include: New Inspiron 5000 and 7000 laptops and 2-in-1s elevate…
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