The Razer Orochi is an attractive and comfortable mobile mouse, but its wireless and lighting features carry some caveats.
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Attractive design; Impressive speakers; Accurate display; Sharp camera
Short battery life; Thick bezel; Slow file-transfer speeds; Unnecessary bloatware
The HP Envy 13t-d000 is a gorgeous and very thin and light laptop, but its short battery life is a deal breaker.
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TP-Link’s Archer C7 delivers a lot of router for the money, with reasonable performance and the ability to connect peripherals.
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The VW Tiguan is a little old now, but it still has one of the nicest interiors in a class that includes the Nissan Qashqai, Kia Sportage and Skoda Yeti. You can save an average of £3,180 if you buy your Tiguan via carwow.
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Apple’s first battery case is not the most attractive, but it will more than double the battery life of the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6s.
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The Canary Web-enabled security camera has temperature and air-quality sensors, which partly justify its relatively high price.
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The innovative Mass Fidelity Core delivers excellent audio quality you’d expect from a wireless speaker twice its size.
The future of high-fidelity audio has arrived. The small and stylish Mass Fidelity Core ($599) puts speakers twice its size to shame, offering multiroom capabilities, more than 12 hours of battery life and the ability to double as a soundbar. The most amazing thing about the Core is how it delivers true stereo using acoustic holograms ─ without separate left and right speakers. This is the little black box that every audiophile needs to have.
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The Origin PC Millennium is as pretty as it is powerful, with 4K-ready gaming muscle packed into its towering, highly customizable design.
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Gamevice brings intuitive, console-style controls to iOS games, but its high price and cheap thumbsticks hold it back.
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Android Wear is the platform for wearables designed to put the power of Google on your wrist. It keeps you always connected by delivering tailored alerts from your smartphone, but also acts as a point of input for interaction with your apps. It’s designed to be simple, operated through a number of touch gestures, with plenty of options for voice control.
Android Wear has progressed through several generations of devices, with most manufacturers having released one or two models so far. LG has progressed from the G Watch to the Watch Urbane; Motorola has issued the second generation of its Moto 360 and Android Wear is starting to attract new manufacturers like Fossil and Tag Heuer, as it moves from the preserve of tech companies, to traditional watch brands.
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Replacing the 30-year old minivan with something daring, heroic, even lion-hearted is no small task. The minivan gave us soccer moms, enabled the spread of bulk grocery stores and made antique hunting a piece of cake. It’s a tough act to follow.
The minivan provided decent horsepower and quick starts, but it was never more than a big automobile. The suspension lacked responsiveness. Despite its close relation to the VW Micro-bus, minivans successfully deflected the impulse to create man-caves. To the relief of moms everywhere, it did what it was intended to do. The kids in the minivan became the captains of their internal world in those ergonomic seats. Unfortunately, it didn’t maneuver well in rush hour traffic. Here are 14 manly alternatives to replace it:
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A $197 tablet isn’t that uncommon, but a sub-$200 2-in-1 sounds like a pretty good deal, particularly when it has an 11.6-inch display. The Android-powered E Fun Nextbook Ares 11 offers decent battery life for budget shoppers, and it’s got a little design pizazz. However, there may be too many trade-offs for that price, including an uncomfortable keyboard, weak performance and scalding temperatures.
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Virtual reality will indisputably be the next big thing in computing, with the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Sony’s PlayStation VR all vying for a piece of the action.
Whether it’s going to be a genuine revolution or merely a flash-in-the-pan gimmick is still a subject of debate, but it’s clear that the next six months are going to see some big changes in the nascent VR market.
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https://www.itpro.co.uk/desktop-hardware/25186/htc-vive-vs-oculus-rift-vs-playstation-vr-1
Here is a quick review and comparison for the CanonEF 35mm f/1.4L vs EF 35mm f/1.4L II wide-angle prime lenses for full-frame Canon DSLRs.
To see the difference between Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L vs EF 35mm f/1.4L II lenses we have put together Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L vs EF 35mm f/1.4L II vs 35mm f/2 IS specs comparison table below.
The EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM ($1,799 – Amazon |B&H | Adorama) wide-angle prime lens is the world’s first lens to boast the company’s exclusive Blue Spectrum Refractive Optics technology. It features a total of 14 elements, two of which are aspherical and the other being ‘Super UD’.
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A decent fitness tracker, the Fitbit is a good indicator of overall health, but don’t confuse it for a scientific training assistant. Lack of GPS makes it toothless for runners, but more worryingly issues with heart rate accuracy both during rest and during exercise erode confidence in its results. While the Fitbit blazed a trail for biometric wearables, it now lags behind the competition.
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Update: iOS 9.2 is now available to download with enhancements and bug fixes to the OS and a host of apps. For more details head over this article here. It brings improvements to Apple Music, iBooks and iOS Mail apps as well as a number of bug fixes.
iOS 9 is unquestionably a great piece of software, but don’t go hurrying to update your devices just yet.
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The Sony FE 28mm f/2 is a new wide-angle prime lens for the Sony A7 full-frame E-mount compact system camera. It features nine elements in eight groups including including one AA (advanced aspherical) element and two ED glass elements, is dust- and moisture-resistant, and has a minimum focusing distance of 29cm with a maximum magnification of 0.13x. It has a near-circular 9 blade diaphragm which creates an attractive blur to the out-of-focus areas of the image, while an internal focusing mechanism means the lens barrel doesn’t move. The Sony FE 28mm f/2 lens is available for £449 / $499 in the UK and the US, respectively. The Sony FE 28mm f/2 is also compatible with the optional 0.75x Ultra Wide and the 0.57x Fisheye Converters.
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As an advanced fitness tracker, the Garmin Vivosmart HR does a sterling job at a decent price. Accurate steps and sleep, resting heart rate and decent notifications all wrapped up into a comprehensive (and complex) app make it a top alternative to the Fitbit Charge HR. Dull looks, dubious live heart rate data during tracked activities and syncing issues are a downside, and it’s in no way capable of replacing Garmin’s own sports tech – but for those looking for a super-charged fitness tracker for the New Year, the Vivosmart HR is a serious contender.
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Not so long ago the idea of a 6-inch phone sounded like a bonkers one. Now it’s the norm for many, and with devices as powerful and refined as the Huawei Mate 8 coming to market it’s perhaps a more appealing concept than ever.
Well, assuming it arrives in the UK anytime soon. At present the Mate 8 is out in China (where we got to sample the handset), with no promise of its UK arrival confirmed just yet. But then there’s the Huawei-made Nexus 6P which is doing a good job of filling the gap in its own way.
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Oukitel’s K6000 is a budget Android phone with a mammoth 6000mAh battery. Is it worth your money? We find out in our Oukitel K6000 review.
The Oukitel K6000 is a Chinese phone that’s available from various third-party vendors including Coolicool, where it costs £88.39/$133. Coolicool offers free shipping, but bear in mind that when buying a phone from China you will have to pay import duty if it is picked up at UK customs. There are also other factors to consider, such as the ease with which you can return the device for a refund should something go wrong. We’ve considered some of these in our article on buying grey-market tech.
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So, you’ve got your curved LG TV and are looking for a soundbar to match. At least, that’s what LG hopes you’re doing, because the HS8 is the obvious choice.
LG couldn’t pip fellow Korean giant Samsung to the post with the ‘world’s first’ curved bar, but the shapely design is still a novel concept.
According to LG, it’s not simply a gimmick to reflect the recent influx of curved tellies. The company claims that positioning tweeters on the ends of the bendy bar produces an expanded sweet spot for a more immersive experience.
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Looks can be deceiving. At first glance, the Aorus X7 Pro-Sync laptop looks like it would be best suited to editing video or photos. And while this slim 17-incher could ably handle those tasks, it’s a gaming notebook through and through, squeezing a pair of Nvidia GPUs and two SSDs into a 0.9-inch frame. Add in support for G-Sync technology, which fights screen tearing and motion blur, and you have an absolute beast of a machine that puts larger notebooks to shame.
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Android 6.0 Marshmallow’s newest update to Google Now on Tap has introduced a new way to take screenshots. Now more integral to the Android experience, Nexus and non-Nexus devices alike will be able to and encouraged to take screenshots using the Google Now on Tap system. This makes the process a little less confusing for those of you that do not own a device made by Google with the most basic vanilla Android experience.
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If you remember the Samsung Galaxy Camera, you remember how nice it was to be able to upload photos from your very capable handheld shooter. That wasn’t all that common a feature for cameras at the time. Now, here at the tail end of 2016, devices like the Galaxy S6 smartphone have better camera setups in a much smaller body. Today also we’re having a peek at what may be a leap forward in photography for smartphones of the Samsung Galaxy S7 (2016) age.
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The same Google Cardboard VR headsets you may have seen last week at Verizon are now up for the taking online. Google must have gotten a friendly batch of the headsets from Verizon in their team-up deal for the VR experience, which incidentally is hosted on the official Star Wars app for Android devices on the Google Play app store. These headsets are made from cardboard, metal, and velcro, and they look super spiffy.
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One of the most important things in a smartphone for many people is how long the battery lasts. A device that only gets you through half a day of use won’t cut it for most of us. A Chinese company called Oukitel has announced a new smartphone called the Oukitel K10000 and it should have enough power for anyone.
The battery inside this smartphone packs 10,000 mAh of juice. Not only will the smartphone use all that power to keep itself running all day, it also supports reverse charging meaning you can use the smartphone’s massive battery to charge other gadgets on the go.
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It took a while to get to market, but when Microsoft finally did release the wireless adapter for the Xbox One controller, PC gamers were happy, and then immediately sad. They were happy to finally see the adapter, so that they could use it to play some of their favorite games, however, there was one small stipulation. The adapter only worked on Windows 10.
Today, without much fanfare, Major Nelson announced that the adapter would finally work with the older versions of Windows that we know and love. Both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 are now officially supported by the device. No word on why it took so long to roll it out for the older OS’s.
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