Monthly Archives: September 2017

2016-2017 Yamaha Smax Review

Building scooters is a somewhat funny business. You have overseas licensing conventions that force engine sizes into certain size brackets, and the displacement usually eases right up against the upper limits. (Ex: 149 cc in the 150 cc-or-lower bracket.) Things are a bit different in the U.S. market where the main consideration is whether the scoot is freeway/interstate legal or not, which requires that engine displacement be greater than 150 cc. Introducing the SMAX in 2016, Yamaha gave us the then newest freeway-legal scooter in its stable. An unusual engine size of 155 cc places the displacement just over the line making it legal to hit the interstate. Whichever the case, the SMAX serves as Yamaha’s current minimal-displacement highway commuter, second now in size to the new Xmax.

Design

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“Last year, passenger comfort got a boost over the previous year’s model with increased padding in the pillion seat.”

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https://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-reviews/yamaha/2016-2017-yamaha-smax-ar171238.html

Which is the best movie streaming box for you? New Fire TV vs Apple TV 4K vs Chromecast and more

A lot of TVs nowadays have some variation of streaming service built in, but there are still plenty of us that still have “dumb” TVs. And in that case, if you want to access streaming services, you’ll need a streaming box.

With such a vast range of streaming services on offer, and a wide range of set-top-boxes that support a combination of them, choosing the right one can be tricky.

Lucky for you, we’ve consolidated all the major options into one place, in price categories, to help you decide which box is for you and your budget.

These are the contenders you should consider.

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Wearables that never were: From Nokia Moonraker to Pebble Time 2

If only you were with us

We see a lot of wearable devices around these parts, and sometimes it’s easy to forget how difficult it is to make and release a product. There are a number of factors to overcome before putting something out into the wild, and every once in a while it just doesn’t work out.

The wearables that never made it

Sometimes companies just miss the market opportunity, or they get bought, or maybe realize that what they have just isn’t good enough to invest in production.

These are the wearables that never were. They’re lost to time and left to live on in our imaginations, never to answer the question of what might have been.

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As you can tell, Microsoft has been dabbling – and frankly failing – in the smartwatch game for quite a while. The latest revelation is this Xbox-branded smartwatch, which may have its origins as far back as before 2013.

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https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/cancelled-wearables-that-never-were-219

10 of the world’s most expensive stereo amplifiers

An amplifier is a key element of any hi-fi set-up, and so you don’t want to scrimp. There are limits, however – limits that these amps all breach quite decisively…

How much would you pay for an amplifier? £500/$650? A grand, even, if your system warrants it? The Onkyo A-9010 shows you can get a lovely performer for just £200/$260 – so you don’t have to spend big to get plenty out of your system.

But if you do want to splash out, you’ve come to the right place. These are the most expensive amps ever made, with one model nearly £2m/$2.6m – roughly 10,000 times more expensive than the A-9010.

Don’t worry if your budget doesn’t stretch that far, we’ve selected an amp that can be yours for as little as £200,000/$260,000. Bargain.

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https://www.whathifi.com/features/10-worlds-most-expensive-stereo-amplifiers

Top 5 Selfie Smartphones 2017

Aside from the bezel-less hype that most smartphone manufacturers are hopping on, we also can’t help but notice that there’s another on-going trend as well and that would be the selfie smartphones. As the term suggests, it’s basically all about the selfie and some even went as far as integrating dual cameras at the front! Anyway, if you’re looking for one, here’s our Top 5 Selfie Smartphones in no particular ranking. Let’s get started!

ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro – The almost perfect selfie phone with extra wide angle

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We just recently reviewed this unit and it almost got a perfect score, reason being is that the secondary front camera which uses a 5MP wide-angle lens (120-degrees) could have been better as the resolution is a bit too low. However, the wide-angle lens really helps a lot especially for wefies and it is great for the outdoors, not so much for indoors, though.

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https://technave.com/gadget/Top-5-Selfie-Smartphones-10873.html

Origin Chronos (2017) Review: A Compact Gaming Desktop Done Right

Gaming desktops built for the living room are a tempting prospect, but almost always come with caveats. Some are powerful but not upgradable, while others are incredibly sleek but can’t compete with the guts of a big tower. That’s where the Origin Chronos comes in.

The console-shaped Chronos ($2,931 as reviewed, $1,200 starting) ticks every box you’d want from a gaming desktop — it’s powerful, it’s sleek and, unlike many of its competitors, it’s easy to open up once you’re ready to upgrade parts. Factor in some smart ergonomic features and a wealth of customization options, and the Chronos is one of the best machines you can buy for enjoying high-end PC gaming from the comfort of your couch.

Design

Few desktops are as good as impersonating consoles as the Origin Chronos is. This little black box is compact, sleek and filled with neat highlights, such as a side window that lets you drool over its GTX 1080 Ti graphics card in all its red-backlit glory.

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https://www.tomsguide.com/us/origin-chronos-compact-gaming-pc,review-4716.html

Hisense 43H6D Review: Budget-Friendly 4K HDR

The Hisense 43H6D is a 4K Ultra HD TV, but don’t assume it’s out of your price range. The 43-inch Hisense offers smart-TV functionality and HDR for less than $500 and is the sibling to the Hisense 43H7D that we included in our roundup of the best inexpensive 4K TVs. While this TV may not offer all the polish and features of more expensive 4K sets, it still delivers as a smart TV with 4K resolution and HDR support, and does so at a price that’s easy to stomach.

Design: Boxy, plenty of ports

The Hisense’s chassis measures 38.1 x 22.1 x 3.4 inches, with plastic construction and a boxy design. With the stand attached, the set actually measures 7.5 inches deep, but VESA mount-compatibility means you can hang this set on a wall just as easily as you can set it up on a table or shelf. It’s not as svelte and stylish as a premium set, like the Samsung Q7F, but the utilitarian design gets the job done.

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https://www.tomsguide.com/us/hisense-43h6d,review-4715.html

Apple Watch watchOS 4 review: Apple’s smartwatch gets more intuitive with the new update

With watchOS 4, the Apple Watch is slicker and more enjoyable to use than ever. Apple has found new ways to reduce the time you need to spend tapping, swiping and scrolling, which is a good thing. Some features, like GymKit, are still to come, but more concerning are the ones that won’t work on the original Apple Watch; there’s now a divide with the early adopters. But overall we’re glad with the changes Apple has made here. Now we just need some more apps.

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With the new Apple Watch Series 3 comes a fresh new operating system: watchOS 4. It’s bigger, it’s better, it makes a lot more sense.

And yes, it features the cast of Toy Story.

While not as radical a change as the jump between watchOS 2 and 3, it tweaks and improves the Apple Watch in ways that make it more enjoyable to use, and making more of that added cellular connection should you pick up the new smartwatch.

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https://www.wareable.com/apple/apple-watchos-4-review

Meike 85mm f/2.8 Macro Review

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Meike is one of the relatively new breed of independent lens manufacturers, continuing to provide low-cost, innovative designs, and, sometimes, unusual specifications. This new 85mm f/2.8 macro lens is unusual in that it focuses down to 1.5x life size. Most macro lenses stop at life-size, some older designs even at half life-size. If performance is up to standard, then the extra magnification could be a winning feature, so let’s have a closer look.

Handling and Features

This is a full frame lens, available in Nikon and Canon mounts. Balance on the Nikon D810 used for this review is slightly front heavy but in terms of size and handling the lens fits very well. It is manual focus only. 85mm is a fairly unusual focal length for a macro lens, most short telephoto macros are 90mm or 100mm, but it is the classic portrait lens, so there may well be potential there as well. It is substantially made using metal and weighs in at a solid 500g despite its fairly compact size.

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https://www.ephotozine.com/article/meike-85mm-f-2-8-macro-review-31461

New meets old: 2007 Honda Civic Type-R FN2 and 2017 Type-R FK8

If you’re looking for a cool and unemotional comparison between two hot hatchbacks from the same company, you might wish to look away now.

New meets old: 2007 Honda Civic Type-R FN2 and 2017 Type-R FK8

The Type R franchise is long established, and has attracted such a huge fanboy following, that normal reviewing protocol occasionally goes out of the window, and we stroll into the good old-fashioned world of opinion, subjectivity and seat-of-the-pants snap judgments.

Although I’m old enough to know better, I’m an unashamed Type R fanboy. The red Honda Civic Type R GT in the pictures above is mine, and was recently bought for an embarrassingly small amount of money. The blue car is the 2017 model, recently vanquished by the Ford Focus RS in CAR’s group test, and is probably the best front-wheel-drive hot hatch money can buy right now.

In reality, it’s not a straight comparison – the old car is a tenth of the price, and is 120bhp down on the new car. It’s also probably not the absolute best Civic Type R – the previous-generation EP3 ‘breadvan’ is lighter, and more focused dynamically. But it’s still true to Honda’s naturally aspirated Type-R heritage, sky-high 8500rpm redline and old-school control inputs.

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https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/features/opinion/keith-adams/new-meets-old-2007-honda-civic-type-r-fn2-and-2017-type-r-fk8/

Intel Core i5-8250U vs Core i5-7300HQ – 8th gen ULV vs 7th gen HQ

Although the Intel Core i5-8250U is barely available on the market, it seems to strike quite a lot of attention and performance seems quite promising. We compared the chip to its direct predecessor the Core i5-7200U and as you can imagine the comparison turned out like expected – the quad-core design really helps performance.

The other day we also mentioned that the Core i5-8250U has surpassed even the Core i5-7300HQ in our Top Laptop CPU Ranking. This is why we want to make a detailed comparison between the two chips. It seems like a rather unfair battle – a high-performance chip vs an ultra-low voltage one – but leave a place for surprises

For the purpose of this comparison, we are using the recently released 15-inch version of the Acer Swift 3 and the excellent budget gaming option the Lenovo Legion Y520. You can check their full specs and prices in our Laptops Specssystem:

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https://laptopmedia.com/comparisons/intel-core-i5-8250u-vs-core-i5-7300hq-8th-gen-ulv-vs-7th-gen-hq/

Pro-Ject Debut Carbon review

If you’re wondering what’s the difference between a cheap, inexpensive turntable and ones exalted by audiophiles, it comes down to design, damping, materials and the phono cartridge. A $99 turntable will play records just fine, but you’ll want to spend more if sound quality is your goal.

$400 (£349, AU$550) may sound like a lot to spend on a turntable, but entry-level hi-fi turntables like the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon are actually a bargain.

In the case of the Debut Carbon, the turntable comes with the excellent Ortofon 2M Red phono cartridge as well as a lightweight and rigid carbon fiber tonearm – parts that separate the Pro-Ject from its competitors and the benefits pay off in sonic performance.

Said simply, if you’re serious about record collecting, the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon is one of the best entry-level hi-fi turntables you can buy. For the money, you’re getting a beautiful, well-built turntable that sounds excellent. It’s easy to setup and use, even for absolute beginners.

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https://www.techradar.com/reviews/pro-ject-debut-carbon

myPhone Hammer Axe Pro review

We reviewed the Hammer Axe Pro from myPhone earlier this year. Well, not the exact model here, but the ODM (original design manufacturer) version from a Hong-Kong based vendor called Nomu. The S30, as it is known, impressed us back then thanks to a balanced combination of grunt and keen pricing (you can see the two phones next to each other in the following two screenshots below) .

With a retail price of just over £173 ($230) at the time of writing (purchased from Geekbuying and including delivery but not local taxes), the Nomu S30 is indeed a bargain.

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However, there are instances when buying from a non-European country may not be a particularly enticing option, because of issues such as value added taxes, business support, the need for localization or other similar restrictions.

That’s probably why Polish-based company myPhone chose to build its business model on “localizing” smartphones like the S30, thereby mitigating the business risks associated with buying a ruggedized smartphone from somewhere like China.

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https://www.techradar.com/reviews/myphone-hammer-axe-pro

Hands on: Marshall Stanmore Multi-room Speaker review

Editor’s note: As of the time of writing we have been unable to test the multi-room features of the Marshall Stanmore, and as such this hands on review has been compiled on the basis of its Bluetooth and Wi-Fi performance. This review will be upgraded to a full review (complete with final score) once we have received a second speaker to pair it with. 

Review continues below…

Have you ever been to a gig that doesn’t have a Marshall speaker somewhere on the stage? Renowned for its guitar amps it may be, but the Marshall brand is here used to sell multi-room music under the auspices of Zound Industries.

And the result is a classic rock sound. Wireless Bluetooth speakers may be all the rage, but Zound recently upgraded all of its Marshall speakers by adding WiFi, instantly bringing into play must-have lossless streaming features like AirPlay, ChromeCast and Spotify Connect. However, Bluetooth remains on all Marshall speakers, too.

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https://www.techradar.com/reviews/marshall-stanmore-multi-room-speaker

Ring Video Doorbell 2 review: A doorbell for the connected generation

Ring is the trend-setter and market leader in smart, connected video doorbells. Not only do such devices provide the ability to communicate with delivery drivers when you’re not at home, they’re relatively affordable motion-sensing security cameras.

The Ring Video Doorbell 2 looks a lot like the original device. However, there are a few very welcome additions and improvements to the sequel which ensure it remains competitive – despite Nest just having launched its own, more slim-line product.

Optoma UHD65 review

Two technologies have become vital for getting the most out of the latest movies and TV shows – 4K resolution, and High Dynamic Range (HDR).

But while there’s an increasing number of 4K HDR Blu-rays on the market, and similar content is widely available via streaming, getting compatible projectors – without venturing in to ‘money-no-object’ territory – is a wee bit more challenging.

Optoma’s latest projector, the UHD65, is up for that challenge. Even more impressively, it manages to pull it off – and in some style.

Features

Giving the UHD65 its 4K capability is one of Texas Instruments’ DLP chips with XPR technology. This chip isn’t native 4K, but rather has a resolution of 4.15m pixels – half that of Ultra HD.

However, through a form of pixel shifting, which rapidly fires two lower-resolution images at the screen, it produces a 4K image – or at least a picture manufacturers can claim to be 4K.

Alongside that, the projector can handle HDR, providing you with more subtlety in colours gradients than ‘normal’ Blu-rays.

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https://www.whathifi.com/optoma/uhd65/review

2017 Cadillac ATS Coupe review

The 2017 Cadillac ATS Coupe disappoints a couple of friends shortly after I take delivery for a week-long evaluation. “Oh, it’s not the ATS-V?” they both say. No, my test car isn’t General Motors’ 464-horsepower performance monster, it’s a base model with a turbocharged four-cylinder and an eight-speed automatic gearbox. They are unimpressed.

Still quite a performer

At first glance, writing off the ATS Coupe, as my two comrades did, may seem easy. But take a closer look at the drivetrain and you’ll see that this entry-level Caddy’s 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder is nothing to sneeze at. With 272 hp and 295 pound-feet of torque, the ATS outmuscles same-sized turbo mills in the Mercedes-Benz C300 Coupe(241 hp, 273 pound-feet), BMW 430i (248 hp, 258 pound-feet) and Audi A5 (252 hp, 273 pound-feet).

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https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/2017-cadillac-ats-coupe-review/

GPD Pocket Ubuntu Editon Review

Netbooks are often ridiculed as a solution looking for a problem but they are also regarded as the ancestors of present day Chromebooks and “cloudbooks”. With the resurgence of these more modern but still low-performance devices, it might seem that the netbook is due for a revival as well. Or so that seems to be the proposition GPD makes with its almost literal Pocket computer. But does that make more sense now than it did before, especially in an age of powerful smartphones? We take the Ubuntu Edition of the GPD Pocket for a good and thorough testing to find out.

Crowdfunding Drama

Unlike the netbooks that broke into the scene a few years back, the GPD Pocket didn’t arrive as a finished product. Like the GPD WIN before it, the Pocket is a product of crowdfunding, and a very successful one at that. GPD pitched the Pocket as its response to backers of the Windows-based, gaming-centric GPD WIN who appreciated the device’s small form factor but wanted a better typing experience than what the clamshell’s thumb keyboard offers. GPD was only too happy to oblige with a slightly larger screen and a larger keyboard. Whether it was able to deliver a better typing experience is, however, debatable.

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https://www.slashgear.com/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-editon-review-29502163/

 

GoPro HERO6 first-impressions: QuikStories, 4K and stabilization

GoPro’s HERO6 Black has arrived, and while it might not have the slick 360-degree features of the GoPro Fusion, 4K60 support is not to be ignored. Promising better digital stabilization, more involving colors and broader dynamic range, and a handy touch zoom, not to mention swifter wireless, you get a lot for your $499. I put on a helmet and got temporarily EXTREME to see how it holds up.

The camera itself looks virtually identical to the HERO5. On the front there’s a small monochrome LCD for basic status, plus the protruding lens; on the back, a full-color touchscreen. A button on the side handles power and switching modes; one on the top starts and stops recording. The battery and microSD card load at the bottom, while a mini HDMI port and USB Type-C port are on the side. With both hatches closed, the HERO6 is waterproof to 33 feet.

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https://www.slashgear.com/gopro-hero6-first-impressions-quikstories-4k-and-stabilization-29502250/

 

Asus ROG Strix GL503 Review

Budget gaming laptops need a makeover, and Asus might be the company to give them one. The $1,099 Asus ROG Strix GL503 is one of the best-looking entry-level gaming notebooks you can get. The company smartly borrowed the looks from its more premium laptops and applied them here. It also has a bright, vivid display and an RGB keyboard with customizable backlighting, which is often reserved for more expensive machines. But while its Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU and Core i7 CPU are powerful, the hybrid SSHD is slow, and data transfers and reboots take a long time. (Luckily, it’s easy to upgrade.) If you’re looking for an entry-level gaming laptop in a premium rig’s clothes, the Strix will help you look the part.

Design

From afar, the Strix looks way more premium than you’d think. That’s because Asus took the lid from one of its flagship notebooks, the ROG Zephyrus, and copied it here. The black aluminum lid features a striking diagonal stripe and the ROG logo in a bronze color. Asus really needs to replace the ROG icon with something (anything!) more elegant, but even so, the overall design is pretty nice.

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https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/asus-rog-strix-gl503

Affordable Flagship Smartphone Showdown: LG G6 vs. Nokia 8 vs. Huawei P10

Great flagship phones don’t have to be uber expensive

The Nokia brand’s comeback to the smartphone market via license holder HMD Oy has to be one of the biggest tech stories this year. Under the brand, HMD Oy released several solid entry level and mid-range phones to the Philippines a few months ago, and now we finally get the newest flagship under the Nokia brand: the Nokia 8. Armed with flagship level specs and aggressive pricing, the Nokia 8 is another solid flagship contender worth looking at. Its price puts it head-to-head with Huawei’s P10 and LG’s G6, so how does the Nokia 8 fare against these months-old flagship models? Let’s take a quick look at their specs:

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https://www.unbox.ph/gadget/affordable-flagship-smartphone-showdown-lg-g6-vs-nokia-8-vs-huawei-p10/

Amazon Echo Spot preview: Smart alarm clock or so much more?

Amazon has revealed its new Echo Spot as it makes a major refresh of its portfolio of Echo devices. Not only is there a new Echo and the enhanced Echo Plus, but the addition of the Echo Spot sees a diversification that takes Alexa into another room of the house.

While the Echo has found its natural place around the kitchen, bettered by the Echo Show that adds a useful display to the arrangement meaning you can do a whole lot more without whipping your phone out of your pocket, the prominence of those devices makes them a little overbearing for the bedroom.

Say hello to the Echo Spot.

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https://www.pocket-lint.com/smart-home/reviews/amazon/142392-amazon-echo-spot-review-that-hits-the-spot

MSI GE63VR Raider review

The MSI GE63VR’s nickname is ‘Raider’, but it should be ‘Porsche’. The twin red racing stripes on the chassis tell you everything: it’s fun, comfortable and stylish – and, a whole lot of luxury. The Raider does live up its name in one sense though: it will take all your money.

The gamer who wants a smooth, quiet ride as they blow up hell demons will love the GE63VR. The gamer who wants their hell demons blowing up at 120 frames per second (fps) forever and without fail may not. In the pennies-for-pixels (and battery) trade, the Raider is no Alienware 15 R3.

That said, the GE63VR is still powerful – certainly more powerful than competing models, like the Origin EVO 15-S – but it’s costly, and that makes its flaws that much more noticeable.

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Price and availability

The memory-rich GE63VR we tested comes in at $2,249 (about £1,747, AU$2,836), though models with half the RAM (16GB) or a weaker GPU (GTX 1060) are available for between $1,799 and $1,999 in the US. The Kaby Lake Core i7 is standard across all models, as is the FHD display, and 1TB hard drive.

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https://www.techradar.com/reviews/msi-ge63vr-raider/2

Purism Librem 15 review

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People who want a laptop pre-installed with GNU/Linux are a niche market (sadly), and people who want that GNU/Linux to be entirely free – no binary blobs in the kernel – are a small percentage of that niche. But people who care about security and privacy? That’s a large and growing number of regular computer users – thanks to Vault 7 and other news about the extent to which we’re all monitored online.

The Purism Librem 15 (and other laptop models) are high-end devices built from the ground up with security and privacy in mind. Worried about someone remotely activating the camera and mic on your child’s laptop? The Librem has hardware kill switches to power off these devices.

We got to spend a couple of days with a Librem 15 – which starts from $1,449 in the US, and £1,110 in the UK, plus 20% customs duty – while members of the Purism team were in the UK for GUADEC. Here’s how we fared with it.

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https://www.techradar.com/reviews/purism-librem-15

Asus VivoBook S510U review

With a starting price of $799 (about £617, AU$1,002), the VivoBook S is a moderately-priced laptop that’s sure to attract attention from students and the casual user. It’s powerful and has a large display, yet is still portable enough to tote around in a backpack.

We’ve spent the past week putting it through our benchmark tests as well as using it for work and play. The VivoBook S spec sheet hits all the right notes, but at the end of the day, real world use tells a slightly different story, but a happy one nonetheless.

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Price and availability

This particular model is available in the US for $799 (about £617, AU$1,002), with the same configuration we tested for this review. In the UK and Australia, however, Asus only lists more robust variants of the VivoBook S, with specifications more in line with gaming laptops than the everyday computer we tested. Pricing for the VivoBook S15 models listed in the respective countries wasn’t available at time of writing.

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https://www.techradar.com/reviews/asus-vivobook-s510u/2

 

TomTom Via 53 review

The essential review

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This is TechRadar’s review summary that gives you all the key information you need if you’re looking for quick buying advice in 30 seconds – our full, in-depth review follows.

TomTom’s Via 53 sits in the mid-range category of sat navs, offering a host of connectivity options via a Bluetooth connection with your smartphone.

This means you can get live traffic updates, enabling you to adjust your route depending on the traffic ahead, while you can also take advantage of hands-free calls and have your text messages read out.

The mapping is very good, while the clean user interface, voice control and a 5-inch touchscreen that requires light gestures makes it a breeze to use.

The design might be a little subdued, and the one-hour battery life disappointing, but those issues aside the Via 53 well is a well-specced and connected sat nav that comes at a good price.

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https://www.techradar.com/reviews/tomtom-via-53

HiFiMan SuperMini High-Res Portable Player review

Your phone is a pretty capable machine. It can make calls, play music, take photos, and browse the web – all in one device.

But it doesn’t do most of things as well as professional equipment can. For example, if you’re a pro photographer, you’ll still probably want a nice DSLR. If you’re an audiophile, you may still want to invest in a decent player – like the HiFiMan SuperMini.

The SuperMini is more than just a run-of-the-mill MP3 player – it’s built to offer an excellent audio quality, and is able to play high-res audio, including FLAC, OGG, and even DSD formats. But is it worth the $399 (£400, AU$599) price tag?

We put it to the test to find out.

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https://www.techradar.com/reviews/hifiman-supermini-high-res-portable-player

Samsung UN55MU9000 smart TV review: No quantum dots, but silky smooth motion

While lacking the rich, highly accurate color of Samsung’s QLED TVs, the MU9000 series holds its own with anything not using quantum dots or OLED. These are excellent TVs for the price.

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At the high end of the TV market, you have Samsung’s QLED, OLEDs from LG and Sony—and not a lot else to choose from. The mid-range, however, where Samsung’s MU9000 series Premium UHD TV resides, is rife with competent sets. The UN55MU9000 reviewed here ($2,000 MSRP available for $1,497.99 at Amazon) raises its head above the crowd by virtue of its super-smooth motion, excellent user interface, and stylish remote. Color on the other hand, is strictly run of the mill.

Design

The 55-inch class UN55MU9000 follows the modern thin-screen design: narrow at the top and thicker at the bottom (depth-wise), where the electronics are stored. The bezel is thin enough that it “disappears” during use. Between that and the stylish stand, the TV looks quite nice sitting on a table (or mounted on the wall).

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https://www.techhive.com/article/3221407/samsung-un55mu9000-smart-tv-review.html

How to transfer music to the Fitbit Ionic : Keep running to the beat

Like that one guy at the party who just can’t take a hint – probably the one whipping out the guitar for a 1am rendition of Wonderwall – the smartphone is increasingly looking like a nuisance to our wearables. But we’re slowly breaking free, and having music stored on our smartwatches and fitness trackers means one less reason to take the phone along for the ride.

There are two ways to listen to music on the Fitbit Ionic: third-party apps or loading your music directly through Fitbit’s software. If you’re in the US, Pandora Plus and Premium users will be able to sync their stations to the watch. For those of you in Europe, well, we still don’t actually know, and it might be a little longer before Fitbit secures a partner.

How to put music on Fitbit Ionic

But if you’re not a Pandora user, or live in Europe, fear not, because you can simply load on your music files to the Ionic. There’s 2.5GB of space for you to fill with your favorite tunes, and we’re going to explain how.

Note that you’ll need the music files themselves on your computer; you can’t just sync your Spotify playlists, for example, though we hope that will one day change.

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https://www.wareable.com/fitbit/how-to-transfer-music-to-fitbit-ionic

Nokia 8 vs Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro Specs comparison

HMD Global has just unleashed the Nokia 8, and now we will be comparing it with the Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro, which has a similar price.

The Nokia 8 is HMD Global’s flagship smartphone that packs a punch. It has a 5.3 QHD IPS display with 2560 x 1440 resolution, a Snapdragon 835 chipset, 64GB/128GB UFS 2.1 internal storage, 4GB/6GB RAM, 13MP (Color + OIS) + 13MP (Mono) dual rear cameras with dual-tone flash, a 13MP Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) front camera with display flash, and a 3,090mAh battery.

The Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro was released last year, and boasts its RAM power. It has a 6.0” Full HD Super AMOLED display with 1920 x 1080 resolution, a Snapdragon 653 chipset, 64GB internal storage, 6GB RAM,  a 16MP PDAF rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, a 16MP front camera, and a 4,000mAh battery.

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https://www.yugatech.com/mobile/specs-comparison-nokia-8-vs-samsung-galaxy-c9-pro/#rfzIklFKCUXqvL1b.97