Articles tagged "Featured"

Back in the beginning of the year we started publishing a new series of reviews. Instead of assessing a device’s performance in the most objective way possible, we try to give a personal and more subjective evaluation of the long-term user...

James Bond is known for being a suave spy, but he loves his gadgets. Provided by Q, these often include an Aston Martin and a Sony Ericsson phone. It started with the Ericsson JB988, a fictional phone featured in Tomorrow Never Dies (it's the phone...

This is the Honor Play - a phone Huawei's sub-brand is selling as gaming-oriented, but which we think is much much more. First - here's our unboxing and key features video. The Honor Play has a lot of things going for it, but here are the...

It's big, it's huge, it's the Mi Max 3 - a phone with decent enough hardware, low price tag and screen of epic proportions. The Mi Max 3 comes with a 6.9-inch 2160 x 1080px IPS display - it wasn't too long ago that we used to have 7-inch...

Everyone was expecting the Mi A2 but no one saw the Mi A2 Lite tagging along. And while the Mi A2 is the follow-up of the original Mi A1, the Lite version can be considered more of a sidestep. Still, it has a handful of new features and design...

Fortnite for Android is the final piece of the puzzle that started out in September of last year with the release of the Fortnite Battle Royale mode on consoles, PC and Mac. Since then, the game got a release on iOS earlier this year in April and...

Smartwatches haven't quite been getting the same kind of interest as the early days, but is that because they are dying or have they just settled in and have become a part of our lives? Chip and Paul debate... Paul: Steady growth is the...

This Sunday we do something a little different. E-book readers don't exactly fall in line with our traditional topic list, but they still have a place in our personal field of interest and expertise. Oddly enough, there seems to be a vacuum of...

ARKit 2 is Apple’s third major release of its Augmented Reality reality platform enabling developers to deliver enhanced AR apps alongside iOS 12. We look at the features of ARKit to give you an idea of what’s coming in September. So what does...

Seoul, South Korea is home to two tech rivals - LG and Samsung. While the latter is the larger company, LG has also brought plenty of innovation in tech even if it often goes underappreciated. So, let us tell you its story and see if you gain more...

Now that we’ve got our hands on the Samsung Galaxy Note9, we’re able to make some comparisons between the Note8 and Galaxy S9+ in terms of performance. We’ve got some numbers from an international dualSIM variant of the Galaxy Note9, so this one...

As per tradition, rumors started flying in as early as March this year. We were hearing all sorts of crazy stories including in-display fingerprint and a built-in breathalyzer for the S Pen. But as time passed by, the dust settled and we started...

Is there a case for phone cases? Paul, who's got the hump, and Yordan discuss. Paul: "Cases are like clothes" Over the years my views and uses of phone cases have evolved. Initially, when I started to drop serious amounts of cash on...

With the introduction of the 2017 iPhones, Apple backed itself into a corner regarding its naming convention, so how it will proceed in 2018? After all, it currently has three phones using two different types of numerals, a skipped digit, and a Plus...

Last year HTC celebrated its 20th birthday. The company was founded in Taiwan on May 15 1997 as the High Tech Computer Corporation and it initially intended to build laptops. Pretty soon it started building pocketable devices - Pocket PCs as they...

The 'mini' fad came and went, and these days we get quite a few 'Lite' smartphones that want to capitalize on the clout of the high-end devices that bear the same name. Xiaomi felt like doing practically the same thing this year, but using the...

Alto's Odyssey won over the hears of many mobile gamers with its beautiful scenery and simplistic gameplay. It's iOS version has been out for quite some time but it's only now when the game hits Android's Play Store. So a review of the game felt...

If you are facing a choice between two evenly matched phones, where one has a superior rear camera and the other has a better selfie snapper which way would you go? Chip and Yordan discuss. Yordan: We can’t have nice things because of selfie...

Last September Apple crossed the Rubicon, the iPhone X introducing a new design direction for the company's smartphones. Apple's next generation of biometric security, Face ID allowed Apple to retire the Home Button and move towards its vision to...

I still remember the first time I saw a Siemens ME45 - a black phone with amber lighting and it was water, shock and dust resistant. It was like a stealthy bat-phone. The ME45 internals are identical to the Siemens S45, the company's first...