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Some European retailers have been a little eager to list the new Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro on their website, and have revealed the pricing. The handset will start at €259 for the 6GB/64GB memory configuration while doubling the storage will set you back €289. As usual with Xiaomi, UK availability will not be immediately…
Blue are consistently regarded as one of, if not, the best manufactures of consumer USB microphones, their Yeti range has received universal praise and I love the Yeti Nano myself. Today, Blue expand this line up with the Yeti X which is a USB microphone for gaming, streaming and podcasting. Yeti X features new Blue…
Squeezing in one more phone release before the month is out, Xiaomi is launching not one, but two phones on the 24th. It was already expected that Xiaomi will release the Mi Mix 4 on the 24th, but they have now confirmed this will be joined by the Mi 9 Pro. The company will also…
With the OPPO Reno 2 already announced, OPPO are launching another new phone. This time this will be their next flagship is called OPPO Reno Ace. Today, the company has released a Weibo post to reveal that it will be announcing the Reno Ace phone on Oct. 10. One of the big selling points of…
With the launch of the new HiSilicon Kirin 990 the ball is rolling for all the new phones of 2020. This gives a glimpse of what to expect for the year to come. Qualcomm will announce their new chipset in December, which will likely offer similar performance and features, this will then be followed by…
Another phone that has had pretty much everything leaked about it way ahead of the launch date. A new leak claims to reveal everything there is to know about the new OnePlus 7T models which are expected to launch on the 10th of October 2019 and will be available in the market for purchase from…
With the Mate 30 series launching in one week, the leaks and rumours are out in full force. It is going to be an interesting release for sure, likely mired by the issues with Google. As always with the Mate series, this will be the first phone to launch with the new flagship system on…
The OPPO Reno only launched a few months ago, but they are already refreshing the line-up. Some marketing materials show the phone as 20x Zoom, which implied the same technology as the 10x Zoom Edition. The phone does technically have 20x zoom but this is digital. What you really have is an LED flash assisted…
I watch way too much TV and movies, most of it is streamed, via Netflix or other services or on my local server via both Kodi and Plex. I am always on the quest for the best, and ideally affordable, set-top box to handle all my media needs. The Nvidia Shield is universally praised, many…
[Original 12-September-2019] [Updated 14-September-2019] Added new Antutu and Geekbench results At IFA we saw the announcement of the new Huawei Kirin 990 5G, which for the time promising to be the best Android chipset, at least until the Snapdragon 865 SoC is launched. Yesterday, Apple announced its latest and greatest chipset, the A13 Bionic, which…
Netatmo launched its indoor smart camera back in 2015, and the outdoor camera in 2016. Amazon Alexa was barely a thing then, we didn’t get it in the UK until September 2016, since then it has become trendy to integrate everything with Alexa, useful or not. Netatmo has continued to update their cameras over the…
All the networking companies were jumping on board the Wi-Fi 6 / 802.11ax bandwagon at IFA. With the iPhone 11 featuring the new networking standard, we may start to see it going mainstream over the next 12 months. At the moment things are pricey, the perfect example being the new Netgear Orbi WiFi 6 Tri-band…