What to expect at the Smart Home Expo
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What to expect at the Smart Home Expo

The Smart Home Expo, the UK’s ultimate event for the smart technologies revolutionising the way we live, will be coming to the NEC Birmingham on the 26th & 27th of March 2019, and here’s what you can expect to find. We are delighted to be partnered with the show this year. It is completely free…

AMD Ryzen 3000 Desktop CPUs, X570 and Radeon Navi in now rumoured for July launch
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AMD Ryzen 3000 Desktop CPUs, X570 and Radeon Navi in now rumoured for July launch

Take this with a pinch of salt considering there have been multiple launch date leaks in the past. According to a RedGamingTech, AMD will be launching three new product platforms which include Ryzen 3000 Mattise, X570 and Radeon Navi in July. The source reports that just like Radeon VII that got the 7th February release…

Xiaomi Mi 9 available for pre-order for £461 at Giztop. Full specification revealed.
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Xiaomi Mi 9 available for pre-order for £461 at Giztop. Full specification revealed.

The Xiaomi Mi 9 officially launches tomorrow and at this point there is little if anything not known about it. As part of the marketing campaign, Xiaomi has slowly been leaking information about the phone, keeping it in the tech headlines. The phone officially launches in China tomorrow, but the global announcement is expected at…

Vivo iQOO key specifications confirmed with Snapdragon 855 SoC, 12GB RAM and triple rear cameras
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Vivo iQOO key specifications confirmed with Snapdragon 855 SoC, 12GB RAM and triple rear cameras

Vivo, the company famed for the Vivo Nex and its pop up camera, recently announced it was creating a sub-brand called iQOO, because we don’t have enough difficult brand names to pronounce. Unlike affordable sub-brands like Huawei with their Honor brand, or Oppo and Realme, the new IQOO brand will focus on flagship devices. Vivo…

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming OC 6G listed on Amazon for £286
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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming OC 6G listed on Amazon for £286

The Gigabyte’s Geforce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming OC 6G is now listed on Amazon UK for £286.11 + £7.58 UK Delivery. The listing by Amazon US so it would be imported, but it appears to be told by Amazon not a market place seller, and therefore the pictures and price should be accurate for the…

Intel 9th Gen Notebooks CPUs revealed: 8-core 16-thread i9-9980HK & 8-core i7-9850H
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Intel 9th Gen Notebooks CPUs revealed: 8-core 16-thread i9-9980HK & 8-core i7-9850H

Intel has not officially announced the 9th generation of their laptop CPUs yet the basic details of these updated chips have been released. The information for these CPUs come from listings for export compliance. The new processors will be featuring the same 14nm++ node as used by the desktop variants while offering higher cores and…

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Benchmarks & Pictures: Slightly better than GTX1070?
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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Benchmarks & Pictures: Slightly better than GTX1070?

In another round of leaks about the up and coming GeForce GTX 1660 Ti there have been numerous product photos and benchmarks leaked. Dependant on price this is shaping up to be a decent card, albeit somewhat predicable in performance. The leaked benchmarks come from the Final Fantasy XV benchmarking database, delivering a score that’s…

Motorola P40 will have a Samsung Exynos 9610 SoC
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Motorola P40 will have a Samsung Exynos 9610 SoC

Motorola doesn’t get a lot of attention on this blog, though they still do excellent phones, especially in the cheaper range such as the Moto G6, and the Moto Z2 Force was a great quirky flagship. The Motorola P40 is most likely not destined for UK shores with this branding, the previous P30 launched globally…

The 6 best free alternatives to Photoshop for 2019

The 6 best free alternatives to Photoshop for 2019

Photoshop is the market leader for professional photo editing and design work, and deservedly so, but its dominance in the professional world means it is quite expensive to use. In recent years Adobe has shifted to a subscription-based service, which does make it reasonably affordable but for some, this price is still too high. This…

Samsung Galaxy A50, A30 and A10 full specifications revealed
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Samsung Galaxy A50, A30 and A10 full specifications revealed

While most people in the UK are hyped up for the up and coming launch of the Galaxy S10, Samsung are continuing to push their budget phones, especially in developing markets. Samsung are planning to launch one A series phone a month from March through to May and they believe this brand is worth $4…