I have recently been on a mission to improve the air quality in my home, it started with my review of the Dyson Pure Cool air-purifying fan which significantly improved some breathing issues I had due to chronic congestion. Vacuums come in all shapes and sizes, in recent years we have seen a shift…
This week saw the launch of the delayed Huawei Mate 40 Pro, which introduced the latest flagship chipset from Hisilicon along with a lower specced Kirin 9000E which will be used on the Mate 40. In the UK, we won’t be getting the standard Mate 40, so we don’t need to worry about the Kirin…
[Original Post: 19 October 2020] Now updated with benchmarks and more accurate information The future of flagship chipsets from Huawei owned HiSilicon remains in doubt due to the extensive restrictions placed upon the company by the US in this protracted political dispute. So the Kirin 9000 could very well be the swan song for Hisilicon,…
During the launch of the Nvidia RTX 3000 graphics cards, it was revealed that the Nvidia RTX 3070 would offer a similar level of performance to the £1000+ RTX 2080 Ti, while the RTX 3080 would offer substantially more performance while costs around a 1/3 less than the last generation flagship. As ever, with review…
Huawei Mobile Services has been improving quickly over the past year or so. The number of apps within App Gallery has doubled in the past year, and Huawei has been aggressively rolling out new features to the HMS system this year to try and have a viable alternative to Google. As part of the Mate…
For more information please check my review of the Yale Linus Smart lock [Originally posted on 10 January 2020] Announced back at CES, when times were simpler, the Yale Linus Smart Door Lock addresses all the concerns people had with the Yale Conexis L1. The new locks offers smart lock functionality while retaining the outdoor…
As part of the Huawei Mate 40 Pro launch, Huawei took the wraps off their latest audio product, the Huawei FreeBuds Studio. Being over the head headphones keeping the FreeBuds branding seems a little stupid, but I guess the name rolls off the tongue little easier than WH-1000XM4. Huawei has been expanding their product range…
The Huawei Mate 40 Pro has finally been launched, similar to recent years, there is a none-Pro variant, but the UK will not be getting this model. During our pre-brief, Huawei didn’t reveal much at all about the phone specification. So some of this content is based on leaks and live reporting, I will update…
Some good news and some bad news with the upcoming AMD GPU launch. I will get the bad out of the way first. The flagship RX 6900 XT is expected to be exclusive to AMD at launch and will be available in limited quantities. So if you are looking for RTX 3080 levels of performance…
Today, Acer refreshed their ConceptD range of devices during their next@acer global press conference. These are premium devices aimed at the creative market which are designed to be both aesthetically pleasing while having the powerful enough to handle creative work such as rendering and 3D modelling. ConceptD 300 – 18L case with GeForce RTX 3070…
I have to admit it is hard to keep up with all the monitor options on the market, even just one brand as Acer is hard. Do they really need to launch 6 monitors? Predator X34 GS I am a big fan of ultra-wide gaming, Acer already has two 3440×1440 displays on the market, proving…
Continuing the massive list of new products being launched by Acer at their next@acer global press conference. Acer has updated its consumer range of laptops including the Swift, Spin and Aspire series. Iris Xe Max discrete GPUs on Core i5-1130G7 and the Core i7-1185G7 Perhaps the highlight of the new announcement is the inclusion of…