I am a big fan of mesh Wi-Fi systems and the Netgear Orbi range is the market leading option, so I was quite excited about finally getting to do a full review. With Netgear Orbi, they have multiple products under the same name all doing the same thing but offering slightly different specification, performance, and…
I have covered quite a lot of power banks now and recently been covering my new favourite peripheral company, Anker, a lot. This is the first time I have covered one of their portable chargers, and this is the smallest one I have ever covered, both in physical dimensions and battery capacity. This diminutive charger…
While we eagerly wait for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8150 which will be the flagship SoC from the company superseding the superb Snapdragon 845, details of new mid-range chips have been revealed. The company is currently testing two new mid-range processors named Snapdragon 6150 and Snapdragon 7150. Both chips are octa-core processors but with likely different GPU, CPU cores…
With Xiaomi launching in the UK next week a lot of people are wondering what phones will be available in the UK market. The launch will start with Three allowing consumers to buy Xiaomi products both instore and online this will then be followed by the launch of a Mi Store in the Westfield Shopping Center in…
**Updated on 03/11/2018** Last week Huawei launched the Mate 20 series, and since then I have been using this as my daily driver. Rather than do multiple posts I am doing one main review which I will update as and when changes need to be made. Specification The Mate 20 series has landed with multiple…
The View 37 ARGB is a curious design from Thermaltake, shaking things up for a purely rectangular design used for most other cases on the market. While still pretty much a rectangle, they have taken the popular windowed side panel design and wrap it around to the top panel giving both an elegant design and…
Xiaomi and Huawei appear to be taking over the global smartphone market. Going from being obscure Chinese brands Huawei is now the number 2 phone company in the world and it looks like Xiaomi are hot on their tails. The global sales in smartphones have declined by 3% in the past year, with Samsung, Lenovo and LG also seeing…
Xiaomi sub-brand Huami has proved that smartwatches don’t have to be expensive and with one-day battery life. By using a lightweight custom OS they have been able to use low power low-cost components to develop watching with all the smart functions most of us need at extremely affordable prices while being able to achieve multi-day battery life….
Xiaomi is finally entering the UK market officially. Mobile operator Three has confirmed that Xiaomi devices will be sold online and in its 327 high-street stores from Friday 9 November. For the first time in the UK you will be able to buy a Xiaomi phone on a contract, rather than having to find the budget for…
It has been interesting to see how the notch has become ubiquitous among many brands, especially when Apple received so much criticism when they introduced the notch in the first place. On the flip side of this, other companies have approached the problem of increasing the screen to body ratio a different way. Vivo Nex started…
So the trend of smartphones appears to be moving towards gaming phones this year. We have seen numerous devices released with the Razer 2, Asus ROG phone, Mate 20X, and Xioami Black Shark. Another player in the Chinese market is Nubia, and they will be releasing a gaming phone of their own next week. The Nubia…
If you work in any form of design, you will understand the importance of matching colours. The Datacolor ColorReader colourimeter, colour matching device, is aimed towards professional contractors, designers, and decorators but it can be used in all aspects of design where you need to identify the colour of a physical object. This is one…