As someone with a bad online shopping problem, Black Friday is both a blessing and a curse. I will be obsessively looking over deals over the next week finding tech and other products that I want to buy. I will also be highlighting some of the best deals I come across while hopefully resisting buying…
This will be one of those Chinese phones that nobody is bothered about importing to the UK, but the fact that the Sharp Aquos R2 Compact uses two notches made it worth posting about. The Sharp Aquos R Compact from last year was pretty weird in the first place, it had slim bezels on three sides with a…
Samsung yesterday announced its latest premium SoC, the Exynos 9 Series 9820, which will feature in their flagship devices such as the Samsung Galaxy S10 next year. The Exynos 9820 features a fourth-generation custom CPU, 2.0-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) LTE Advanced Pro modem, and an enhanced neural processing unit (NPU) to bring new smart experiences to mobile…
During my time with the well-priced entry-level Nitro N50 gaming PC, I was using the Acer Nitro RG270 gaming monitor that was sent with it. This is an attractive slim bezel AMD FreeSync enabled 27-inch monitor running at 1920 x 1080p with a refresh rate of 75 Hz. Some gaming communities might immediately dismiss a…
After being sold to Nokia, then bought from them a few years later Withings have started to release new products now they are free from Nokia. The Withings Pulse HR is the second device launched since Withings reformed, and, a new addition to their range of health and fitness trackers that features heart rate monitoring, multisport…
Proprietary charging cables became a thing of the past on phones with the introduction of mini USB well over a decade ago (if we ignore iPhones). However, in the laptop world this has not been the case, even today the power ports vary all the time, often the same company will use different plugs dependant…
After weeks of build-up, Xiaomi has finally landed in the UK with their phone available across multiple online sellers including Amazon and Three and the official Mi Store opening in Westfield London on the 18th of November. Xiaomi has famously produced extremely affordable and well-specced flagship phones in recent years, and this is why so many UK buyers…
For a lot of people, headphones are an essential part of everyday life. Many people listen to music on portable devices while out in public. For a musician, this is the case more than anyone else. They do after all create the music that we listen to. This article is about the benefits of using…
The Acer N50-600 series of desktops cover a wide range of configurations that mainly focus on the entry to mid-end of the market with the Predator Orion range being the options for the mid to upper end. The Nitro model I have been sent is the N50-600-28 which sits about as low down in the…
Nuu may not be a household name in the UK but they are one of the many Chinese brands entering the UK market premium designs, mid-range chips and affordable pricing. Priced at £199 on Amazon this device is powered by the Helio P25 Octa-Core chip which is comparable to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 that is…
Carephonewarehouse is getting in on the Black Friday action early and starting out with an absolute corker of a deal The Huawei P20 has had £200 knocked off its list price dropping it down to £399! At the time of writing Amazon have also price matched this. [button link=”https://amzn.to/2z20DS2″] Buy from Amazon (with free headphones)[/button] [button…
More images and details of the new AMD Radeon RX 590 series have leaked, and it is looking to be a surprisingly decent card. The new card is based on the 12nm FinFET based Polaris 30 GPU technology and will sit in the middle end of the GPU market. Details of two custom models have been released…