Creative Sound Blaster X4 Announced – Similar hardware vs X3 but now with SmartComms Kit and only a fiver more (£135 vs £130 RRP)
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Creative Sound Blaster X4 Announced – Similar hardware vs X3 but now with SmartComms Kit and only a fiver more (£135 vs £130 RRP)

Yesterday, Creative announced their latest DAC, the Creative Sound Blaster X4, The X4 is the upgraded successor to the well-received Sound Blaster X3, but looking at the product pages and press release, not that much has changed. Creative Sound Blaster X4 vs Sound Blaster X3 The new X4 has 114 dB audio clarity and 24-bit/192…

TCL Roku TV comes to the UK – 55-inch 4K RP620K just £449 – 65-inch £549
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TCL Roku TV comes to the UK – 55-inch 4K RP620K just £449 – 65-inch £549

All the current TCL TVs in the UK use Android TV, including the latest TCL C82 Mini LED and C72 QLED range. However, US users have had access to TVs equipped with the popular Roku platform for a while now, and this is finally coming to the UK. It has been a few years since…

Realme Announce Watch 2 & Watch 2 Pro for £70 & £50 + New LiDAR mapping TechLife Robot Vaccum for £260
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Realme Announce Watch 2 & Watch 2 Pro for £70 & £50 + New LiDAR mapping TechLife Robot Vaccum for £260

As part of the Realme GT 5G launch, Realme announced the launch of three new AIoT products – the Realme watch 2 & 2 Pro and the Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum – as part of an accelerated AIoT product strategy for the next five years. The TechLife robot vacuum sounds particularily interesting, a LiDAR equipped…

Realme GT 5G Review – Incredible value for money, undercutting the OnePlus 9 & Black Shark 4 significantly
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Realme GT 5G Review – Incredible value for money, undercutting the OnePlus 9 & Black Shark 4 significantly

Realme started their European invasion with the Realme X2 Pro, which offered phenomenal value for money. The successor, the Realme X50 Pro, landed at a much higher price, it was and still is a great phone, but it was perhaps a little too close in price to the OnePlus 8 to stand out. This year…

Anker Soundcore Life P3 Announced for £79.99 – The Soundcore Life P2 gets upgraded with active noise cancelling
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Anker Soundcore Life P3 Announced for £79.99 – The Soundcore Life P2 gets upgraded with active noise cancelling

Anker Soundcore is always a great option for affordable but high-quality audio gear. I was particularly impressed at the active noise cancelling performance of the Soundcore Life Q35 headphones. The noise-cancelling was on par with premium headphones, yet you can buy this for £130. Soundcore is now implementing their ANC technology into their in-ear earphones,…

Huawei phones finally get NFC contactless payments via Stocard in the UK & EU

Huawei phones finally get NFC contactless payments via Stocard in the UK & EU

While it has been possible to overcome many of the issues Huawei phones have with Petal Search (and the growing number of apps in the App Gallery), one issue that has persisted is the lack of contactless payments. It is one of the biggest reasons why I didn’t use the Huawei P40 Pro as my…

Realme GT 5G with SD888, 12GB RAM & 256GB storage to cost €549 / £475 & launches on 15th of June
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Realme GT 5G with SD888, 12GB RAM & 256GB storage to cost €549 / £475 & launches on 15th of June

Update: Within hours of posting this, Realme confirmed the launch date. It will be on the 15th of June, and you can watch the live stream on the Realme YouTube Channel I have been eagerly waiting for Realme to launch its flagship phones this year. The Realme GT 5G was launched in China back in…

Etymotic EVO Triple Driver Earphone Announced for £499.95 – Claims to be the most accurate multi-driver earphone on the market & ditches the iconic tubular design
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Etymotic EVO Triple Driver Earphone Announced for £499.95 – Claims to be the most accurate multi-driver earphone on the market & ditches the iconic tubular design

Etymotic have long been the go-to brand for many audiophiles, and they are famed for the tubular design of their earphones which provide quite an intrusive fit but offer exceptional noise isolation. The company is now launching its latest flagship earphones with some big claims as well as a design change that may be controversial…

Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell now compatible with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa & Siri
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Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell now compatible with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa & Siri

Netatmo is an unusual company in the world of tech; they don’t seem to have a big yearly launch cycle introducing dozens of new products with refreshes of old. For example, I am now on the Ring Video Doorbell 4. Instead, they seem regularly roll out upgrades for existing hardware. The latest upgrade is for…

Huawei MateView GT 34-inch 21:9 3440×1440 @ 165Hz Gaming Monitor Launched for £499 – But does it have G-SYNC or FreeSync?
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Huawei MateView GT 34-inch 21:9 3440×1440 @ 165Hz Gaming Monitor Launched for £499 – But does it have G-SYNC or FreeSync?

It is interesting to see Huawei diversify into new hardware markets. Technically this would fall within the +8-ecosystem remit Huawei have been going on about for the past few years, so the launch of speakers and monitors was probably already on the cards. However, with the company struggling with their mobile division it is no…

Huawei Watch 3 Announced – HarmonyOS could beat Wear OS thanks to 3-day battery [5 on the Huawei Watch 3 Pro]
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Huawei Watch 3 Announced – HarmonyOS could beat Wear OS thanks to 3-day battery [5 on the Huawei Watch 3 Pro]

The Huawei Watch 2 was announced back in 2017 running Wear OS, but in the following years, they ditched Wear OS in favour of a less smart LiteOS. With LiteOS, you got what you were given, and you had to live with it. While that doesn’t sound appealing compared to Wear OS, with its apps,…

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs RTX 3080 vs RTX 3090 Benchmarks – New leaks show the obvious, sitting in the middle of the two existing cards
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs RTX 3080 vs RTX 3090 Benchmarks – New leaks show the obvious, sitting in the middle of the two existing cards

Tomorrow, on the 31st of May, it is expected Nvidia will launch their latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, the Ti variants of the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070. Update: NVIDIA has been announced that RTX 3080 Ti will cost 1199 USD, a 500 USD increase over RTX 3080 while offering 18% more…

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