** This contest has now ended. The winner has been contacted and the prize posted ** A few weeks ago I reviewed the superb budget UMIDIGI A1 smartphone, priced at just £119.99 on Amazon UK it offers premium looks and a level of performance that should be more than good enough for the majority of users. … Read more
While most modern TVs have a decent OS running them providing access to Freeview and catch up, the experience can vary between manufacturers. TVs that are just a few years old can often be heavily flawed with their TV services. This is why streaming devices are a great option, you can replace the smart functions … Read more
GoPro and compact action cameras are as good as synonyms by now, and the followers of this cult never seem to have enough! From extreme athletes to adventure seekers, GoPro cams have become indispensable and so has the possibility of making the most out of them. Aficionados of photography have shown how the best way … Read more
Pictures of a new Nvidia test-GPU has leaked online, revealing Nvidia’s first graphics card with GDDR6 memory, there is no word on what GPU this will relate to in the future but initial signs appear to be pointing towards a GTX 1080 Ti replacement which could be the GTX 1180/2080 depending on which rumour you believe. Not a … Read more
The Redmi range of phones has always been a popular line model from Chinese maker Xiaomi. Even though the phones are not readily available in the UK, many people take the risk of grey imports as the phones offer a lot of spec for the money. The latest model in the range, the Redmi 6 Pro comes … Read more
Qualcomm has been busy the past few months, rather than just relying on the mobile phone industry which is stagnating somewhat, they have been working on new chips that can fill the void of declining phone sales. So far this year they have announced details of the new Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform which is the … Read more
PC users have had a frustrating couple of years with rising RAM and GPU prices. The DDR4 RAM issue could be due to price fixing and/or an issue with supply and demand with so many modern PCs and phones switching to DDR4. With the GPU market, everyone has blamed the surge of crypto-currency mining but … Read more
I have posted numerous times about the rising prices of DDR4, the cause being attributed to the massive increase in demand from the switch to DDR4 for desktops and laptops but and LP-DDR4 found in mobiles. That hasn’t stopped many people on Reddit claiming that the big manufacturers are price fixes. It turns out that the Reddit users … Read more
Similar to the Blue-Ray and HD-DVD days, the current HDR standard is split with 2 standards, HDR and Dolby Vision. Dolby Vision is the superior standard, and we have discussed the differences in the past, but the HDR10 standard has a trick in its sleeve with a revision called HDR10+. HDR10+ delivers almost the same features as Dolby … Read more
For 20 lucky attendees of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Nvidia surprised them with a free Titan V CEO Edition GPU. This unannounced GPU is a special version of the Titan V which has more than double the VRAM capacity than normal at 32GB. While not really a consumer card, the Titan range has always appealed to … Read more
If you live in Japan you should now be able to get hold of one of the new large HDR displays Acer has produced. The two displays come in at 49 and 55 inches with the excellent names of EB550Kbmiiipx (55-inch) and EB490QKbmiiipfx (49-inch). The new 4K displays are fully HDR10 compliant with 10-bit colour via DisplayPort 1.2 however … Read more
I don’t get the opportunity to review much desktop PC related stuff, so I was excited when Thermaltake asked me to review one of their latest cases. The Thermaltake View 22 Tempered Glass is a mid-tower full ATX case which features streamlined front panel structure, one durable 4mm thick left tempered glass window, one preinstalled … Read more
While we already knew roughly what the design of the OPPO Find X would be and what would be under the hood, it was not expected that OPPO would launch the phone at £999. This is a price that matches the iPhone X and exceeds the Samsung Galaxy S9+ launch price. It appears Oppo is hoping brand … Read more
We already knew that AMD will be releasing their second generation of Ryzen Threadripper processors, promising core/thread counts of up to 32 cores and 64 threads, a 2x boost over their previous generation. Which looks like we are entering a core count war with Intel set to launch a 28-core CPU a chip that is likely based … Read more
Lenovo promised us a full-screen phone but then failed to deliver, and vivo has finally introduced their innovative NEX phone with a full body screen and pop out camera. It now looks like the OPPO Find X will be the next phone to adopt a full-screen display. A video advert appears to show the new phone which has … Read more
Garmin hasn’t officially announced the update for the the the Garmin Fenix 5 range yet, but they have put the page live for on the Garmin website with full information of the entire range, including the price of the 5-Plus Saphire edition which is $849.99 As previously reported the new plus range is updated with colour TOPO … Read more