The last product I got to try out during the #acerliveblog event in Dublin was the Acer Iconia One 8. The specification is not dissimilar to the Tab 8 I reviewed back in December. It is currently available for around £120, with the 1GB Tab 8 costing around the same. The full specification is: Intel…
During our weekend with Acer for the #AcerLiveBlog event I got chance to use the new Acer Liquid Jade Z extensively. The Jade Z is an Android based phone running 4.4 kitkat and is powered with a MediaTek MT6732 Quad-core 1.50 GHz SOC and has 1GB of RAM. The screen is 5-inches and runs at…
Fritz!Box is not a name most people in the UK will be familiar with, we generally associate Asus and Acer with high end consumer routers, or TP-Link for cheaper ones. However AVM, the company that makes the Fritz!Box is the second largest manufacturers of broadband devices in Europe, and has a 50% market share in…
Following the review of the surprising good Acer Chromebook 13 we have spent the past few days with the Acer Aspire V11 Touch, a affordable, portable Windows notebook with a low-power processor. This diminutive laptop has a Intel Celeron quad core N3540 running at 2.16 GHz which is an amazing low TDP of just 7.5…
We have not had the opportunity to review a Chromebook in the past, nor have we been particularly interested in them personally. With low cost laptops being able to perform reasonably well for basic tasks we never really saw the point of this niche tablets. However after a few days of using the Acer Chromebook…
Microsoft have recently launched the Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL in the UK which are priced at £169 and 219 respectively on the Microsoft Store, though you can actually get the 640 for £120 on Amazon. As you can imagine they are essentially the same phone but different sizes. The standard Lumia 640 uses…
Ted Baker is generally associated with their luxury fashion line for Men and Women, but with the growth of the fashion conscious headphone market they are looking to expand. Priced at £120 on Amazon they are a reasonably price headphone. As you would expect from a brand like Ted Baker, these are beautiful headphones with…
Here’s a confession upfront: I’m a total dork for Marvel, movies, and for Marvel movies. I’d also, in spite of all my years of fandom, never made it to a premiere before, and so when the opportunity arose to attend the European unveiling of Age of Ultron, you can imagine… it was kind of a…
Last weekend we attended the inaugural cruise of the Quantum class Caribbean Anthem Of The Seas Cruise Liner built by Royal Caribbean. This was a slightly unusual review request as this is a technology blog, but the Anthem Of The Seas is regarded as the most technologically advanced ship in the sea and this review…
Over the past few days we have been playing with D-Links new range of smart home products called mydlink home. This is quite a simple range of products that offer an easy way to get into smart home and home automation. The 4 products that were supplied to review include: Home Monitor HD The mydlink…