What the? As we’ve just seen, ASRock’s Z370 Taichi, is a feature-packed board at a great price. Now we have the z370 Extreme, which is almost identically priced, and made by the same company. It’s nothing in the world of IT components, so what makes these two boards so different? For starters, it simply feels … Read more
Available in shimmering blue, iridescent green or pearly grey, the Honor 10 is very much what you’d expect from Huawei’s sub-brand, which specialises in bling. It is affordable for a high-end phone by today’s standards, and nobody would call the Honor 10 basic. On paper, it’s reminiscent of last year’s excellent (and more expensive) View … Read more
Acer sets the pace with a compact, competitive UHD HDR projector. Steve May counts the pixels WITH HDR SUPPORT and a brightness of 2,100 Lumens, could this be a 4K projector for the AV everyman? Acer’s single-chip DLP PJ offers HDR10 playback, tied to a REC.709-grade colour wheel. So while the projector is compatible with … Read more
Following the brief glimpse of the new Amiga motherboard, monikered Tabor recently, A-Eon Technology has put out a full press release regarding the motherboard and its intended initial home, in the form of the Amiga One A1222 machine. The motherboard has been developed by Ultra Varisys under commission from A-Eon in association with Acube srl, … Read more
OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION, or OCR, is the process of a computer identifying printed characters and re-creating them digitally – so you can create, save and edit digital copies of paper notes and documents. ABBYY’s FineReader series has arguably been the king of consumer-grade OCR software for a few years now, thanks largely to 2015’s excellent FineReader … Read more
GRAEME LOOKS AT THE NEW WI-FI STANDARD, JUST ANNOUNCED. WHAT IT WILL BRING FOR YOU, AND WHEN YOU NEED IT Happy New Year to all our readers, hope you each managed to get in some relaxation over the Christmas holiday period, and are refreshed and back into the swing of things for 2018. Samantha sent … Read more
Devolo’s latest powerline kit extends your home network without tears, says Martin Pipe The receiver plug features a trio of Ethernet ports PRACTICALLY EVERY DOMESTIC gadget needs some kind of network connection nowadays. But getting the network to where it’s needed can be an issue, especially if your home is of a shape and size … Read more
The futuristic-looking Nighthawk X10 is advertised as the ‘world’s fastest router,’ with a claimed total wireless bandwidth of 7,133Mb/sec. That’s fast enough to download 50GB of data in under a minute, and if you think that sounds like an impossible feat, even for 802.11ac Wi-Fi, you’re right. Uniquely among this month’s routers, the X10 also … Read more
You’ll recall that the Moto G6 revived our faith in Motorola’s budget G family. If you want to pay even less, the G6 Play is a similar size and shape but with a slower processor, plastic back, single rear camera and lower-resolution screen. It also lacks the G6’s water-repellent coating, but if you drop it … Read more
In the 1999 sci-fi film The Matrix film, Keanu Reaves, as Neo, receives a high-tech matt black monolith that slides out into a very cool curved mobile phone. For the rest of us, the original Nokia 8110 (1998) didn’t pop open like the spring-loaded Hollywood mockup, and nor does this revival, but you can flick … Read more
‘Mid-range’ may not sound exciting, but to us it’s the best bit of the tech industry, where you find products that have more than basic features at less than top-end prices. The Nokia 7 Plus is a perfect example. You’d better like your phones big, because the six-inch 18:9 screen has borders at the top … Read more
A decade ago. analysts were suggesting Apple should make a smaller version of its smartphone – an iPhone Nano – for users who didn’t want a big, heavy device in their pocket. At that time, the iPhone 3G had a 3.5in screen and weighed 133 grams. Today, the iPhone X has a 5.8in screen and … Read more