As you may have noticed, smartphone prices have gone through the roof over the last couple of years. So much so that you can easily splash out more than you would for a decent laptop or even a second-hand car. Luckily, savvy consumers out there needn’t spend over the odds to get a phone with the latest tech and svelte design. Honor is one brand bringing flagship levels of quality across the board without the usual eye-watering price....

It certainly removes a bit of the magic of the high-end iPhone 12 series, but that’s set to change with the release of iOS 14.5. No, your iPhone isn’t about to gain some kind of power that allows it to see through facemasks – the workaround Apple has planned requires the Apple Watch. Hot off the heels of the release of iOS 14.4 to the public, Apple began seeding the first beta of iOS 14....

As an avid Fitbit user, I compete not only with myself, but also other friends who have Fitbit trackers. Fitbit One review | Fitbit Zip review | Fitbit Flex 2 review | Fitbit Alta review | Fitbit Alta HR review | Fitbit Charge 2 review | Fitbit Blaze Review | Fitbit Surge review Top 10 tips to hit your step goal EVERY day Here are my Top 10 tips for squeezing in those extra steps each day without any major changes to your routine....

Like many similar scams, the emails claim that your account has been suspended because of “recent activities” and you need to click a Confirm button to restore the account. An SMS message takes a different approach, saying that a ‘New device attempted to set up a payee to [your account]. If this was NOT you visit [the fake website]’. Both are designed to make you worry and they’re convincing enough for you to click on the button or link and go to the fake Lloyds website, which is a surprisingly good imitation of the real thing....

The service announced steep price hikes across all its plans in the US, and then the UK. The top tier – Premium – now costs a whopping $19.99/£15.99 per month, making it the most expensive leading streaming service available (without the inclusion of live TV). Following on from that was the announcement of a test to crack down on password sharing by prompting account holders to add users from outside of a household as ‘extra members’ for around $2....

Wileyfox has burst onto the smartphone scene with the aim of bringing decent phones at affordable prices. Led by a former general manager at Motorola, we’ve taken a look at the larger and higher spec Wileyfox Storm. Wileyfox Storm review: Price and competition In terms of competition, the Wileyfox Storm isn’t the only phone out there trying to offer an attractive phone at under £200. A key rival, ironically, is the Motorola Moto G (3rd gen) which is one of the best cheap phones of 2015 at £159....

On the face of it, this is a problem you’ll want to avoid. As Microsoft has confirmed, version KB5014699 (Windows 10) and KB5014697 (Windows 11) cause the Wi-Fi hotspot feature to stop working entirely. Not only will you be unable to set it up, the internet connection to your device may also drop out, with no ability to reconnect. All the following core versions of Windows are affected: Windows 11 version 21H2 Windows 10 release 21H2 Windows 10 release 21H1 Windows 10 version 20H2 Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2016 Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 LTSB Windows 8....

Microsoft first revealed the news in a late January blog post, before confirming the update’s release three weeks later. Adding simpler window sharing, mute/unmute for calls and weather integration won’t solve all the taskbar’s problems, but they should prove useful for many people. Elsewhere, both the Notepad and Media Player apps have a new, simple aesthetic that’s more in keeping with Windows 11’s Fluent design language. But native Android app support is the big new feature....

After Windows 11 is officially released on 5 October, Microsoft will drop all unsupported PCs from the Windows Insider Program and encourage users to reinstall Windows 10. Cumulative updates will be available between now and then, but you’ll miss out on any new features in upcoming builds. The news was confirmed in a tweet from Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc, who works on the Windows Insider Program. This clarified earlier rumours that this process was taking place immediately....

Muchas de ellas compiten en la Women’s Super League, aunque también hay jugadoras españolas como Ona Batlle, Leila Ouahabi, Laia Aleixandri y Vicky Losada. Las conocerás por su paso tanto por la selección española como por equipos de la Primera Iberdrola como el Barça, el Atlético de Madrid, el Madrid CFF o el Espanyol. Ahora, está a punto de empezar una nueva temporada, lo que significa que tienes una nueva oportunidad para disfrutar de algunas de las mejores jugadoras de fútbol del mundo....

You’ll also like: Best games coming out in 2016 It’s either the best news or the worst news: Blizzard unveiled its latest World of Warcraft expansion at Gamescom, titled Legion. Get ready to re-up those subscriptions again. Legion is essentially Burning Crusade 2.0, thanks to the time travel aspects of last year’s Warlords of Draenor. Gul’dan has gone off and found longtime Warcraft badass Illidan Stormrage (as far as we can tell from a short CG video Blizzard showed)....

Despite what the name might suggest, the Poco M4 Pro is much more than just a Poco M4 Pro 5G with the next-gen network connectivity lopped off. It’s a surprisingly different package, from its design to its display, and from its camera to its CPU. Let’s not mince words here: the Poco M4 Pro is flat out the superior phone to its 5G brother and should be the preferred pick for anyone willing to forego the very fastest network speeds....

So, what makes something a Pro device at the cheap end of the market? Here’s the full Tech Advisor review. Design & build Square-edged designSide-mounted fingerprint sensorIP53 rating It’s been a while since I’ve seen a phone in the affordable bracket that had a truly pleasing design. Most are perfectly serviceable variations on the slab of glass and plastic that we know so well, but this time around Xiaomi has impressed with an aesthetic that defies the device’s price-tag....

It joins the Redmi Note 9, Note 9S and Note 9 Pro, but comes with some key differences beyond the 5G capabilities. There’s a slightly lower battery life, a different processor and a more stripped back design. However, it still manages to clock in just over £200. With all that in mind, how does the phone stack up in actual use? Design and build Like other Redmi 9 phones, this is quite a big handset....

Technology moves so quickly, that gadgets introduced today and usually obsolete within in a few years, in favour of new improved items. But we don’t necessarily think change is always a good thing. Here are 10 tech items whose days are numbered, and we’re going to miss them all – though some more than others – when they’re gone. 1. MP3 players Sure, we’ll still have portable devices that can play MP3s, but a few years from now they’ll all be mobile phones....

In Japan mobile telcos, especially NTT DoCoMo, have made strong profits from using their current cellular and web technology, called i-mode. But Forrester is dubious about the potential success of high-bandwidth services in Europe. “The mobile internet won’t pay for [3G] investments,” says the report. Forrester interviewed mobile telcos and found they expected revenue per person to rise by 25 percent. But Forrester comes to the conclusion revenue per users will fall by 15 percent, a massive difference....

Exactly how this will work remains to be seen, but it’s thought the S10+ could feature a pop-up unit at the front to house the cameras and sensors, leaving the front clear for a bezel-less Infinity Display. It’s an approach we’ve seen before in the Vivo Nex, and also tipped to be present in the next OnePlus phone. Samsung is tipped to offer the Galaxy S10 in three sizes at launch: 5....

Acer Liquid Z4: display & design The Liquid Z4 is a compact smartphone made with the pocket in mind, sporting a 4in display with a pretty dismal resolution of 800 by 480. We found the quality of the display to be quite poor, and the colours seemed a little dull. It’s not uncommon for budget smartphones to be lacking in the display quality department, but the Moto G, which costs just £55 more than the Liquid Z4, packs in a HD 720 by 1280 resolution in its 4....

Also see: Best Black Friday Laptop Deals Gaming culture borrows heavily from science-fiction and fantasy themes. So why not own a laptop that looks like it dropped out of the future? Alienware set the trend for gaming notebooks that look like sci-fi film props, and in the Alienware 13 has built a high-performance gaming laptop that successfully juggles user comfort with a talent for playing the fastest action titles. This little notebook can also take on the desktop PC....

Read our review of the Kindle Oasis 2017 which replaces this model. There are some interesting and exciting things about the Kindle Oasis but price is a huge factor this time around. We were a little taken aback by the £169 Kindle Voyage when that was released in 2014 but the Oasis is in a new league of its own. The Oasis will set you back a whopping £269 and that’s for the cheapest model which is Wi-Fi only....