Amazon’s mid-range tablet is the first to get Show Mode. Not only can you use the Alexa voice assistant hands-free, as with an Echo smart speaker, but it also works like the Echo Show, making better use of the screen to display web content found by Alexa. Currently, the bigger Fire HD 10 has hands-free … Read more
THE 12.9IN IPAD IS POWERFUL AND EXPENSIVE, BUT TURNS APPLE’S TABLET INTO A TRULY PROFESSIONAL TOOL While overshadowed by the IPhone 6s, the really big news from Apple this month Is the 12.9ln IPad Pro. I was fortunate enough to spend some time with the device – and It’s a colossal new product from Apple. … Read more
Best Android phone ever? At first glance, Samsung’s Galaxy S7 looks almost unchanged from 2015’s S6. For several reasons, however, it’s actually a significant upgrade. Perhaps the most important is the microSD card slot, which lets you add up to 128GB for around £30 whenever you need to. The S7 runs Samsung’s TouchWiz version of … Read more
The company behind the Sailfish OS has rolled out their second-gen flagship smartphone, which has got Alexander Tolstoy smiling. Jolla C Is the second much-anticipated smartphone from Jolla, the Finnish software company, which was launched in May 2016 running Sailfish OS. The first Jolla smartphone came out in 2013 and had low hardware specs and … Read more
Nokia might have hit rock bottom as far as smartphones are concerned. However, it continues to deliver feature phones for the consumers and has launched yet another feature phone known as the Nokia 216 in India. Launched in September, the Nokia 216 is now on sale in the Indian market at a price. Talking about … Read more
Apple’s obsession with making its iPad tablets thinner and lighter every year is a philosophical statement. The computer should disappear; all that should be left is the app. That’s Apple’s genius, and something Android tablet makers have trouble matching. That’s also what has made the iPad our top pick for large-screen tablets since the first … Read more
You wait ages for a cheap tablet, and then two come along at once. We reviewed the EE Jay, which looks a bit like an iPad mini 2 but costs just over half as much. It was all right at first glance, but with a lackluster screen, sluggish response, the dated 5.1 version of Android … Read more
Samsung describes this new tablet as ‘business-rugged’, which conjures up some exciting images of what business must be like in South Korea. They’re not thinking about the office, of course, but jobs like driving a delivery van, inspecting industrial equipment or recording crime scenes. Let’s be honest, what they’re really thinking about is organisations that … Read more
Motorola has released three new phones in its affordable E5 range. Our favourite is the E5 Plus with its large screen, superb camera and epic battery life Affordable phones usually come in small packages but Motorola is bucking the trend with the Moto E5 Plus. There’s a more compact E5 in the range, with a … Read more
COMPETITORS TAKE NOTE: THIS IS THE BEST PHONE IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW [ STEPHEN LAMBRECHTS ] ON PAPER, THE new Note 9 mightn’t seem all that different to its predecessor, 2017’s Galaxy Note 8. Look beneath the surface, however, and you’ll find a smartphone that has addressed almost every issue that last year’s model … Read more
Motorola, now owned by Lenovo, announced this budget smartphone earlier in the year at the same time as the G6, but we can’t blame them for holding it back a bit longer. At an even lower price, this could be the G6’s strongest competition. [sc name=”Youtube”] There are three E5 models, with the E5 Play … Read more
TWO OPERATING SYSTEMS EACH WITH UNIQUE STRENGTHS CONTRADICTORY STATISTICS INDICATE EXTENT OF RIVALRY Two reports recently emerged shedding some light on not only how tight the competition continues to be between the operating systems of iOS and Android, but also how dramatically Apple and Google differ in their mobile strategies. For, while 2016’s third quarter … Read more