While Huawei without Google services is no longer the attractive proposition it once was, many other Chinese brands have stepped up to fill its place. From Xiaomi to OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Vivo and others, these phones typically offer incredible value for money, with the premium build quality and feature set you’d expect from the top Android phones, but at a price point much lower. Below we’ve assembled some of the best Chinese phones you can buy in the UK today....

The next Black Friday will be on Friday 24 November 2023. You will be able to find savings across phones, laptops, wearables, smart home products and more – with additional benefits for Currys Perks customers. Currys has a price promise guarantee, which means that it will match the deal cost of any UK retailer, online or in store. The retailer will even match discount codes. In the past, we have found that some discounts aren’t necessarily as big as the store claims, but we always check the price history on the deals included to ensure that you get the best saving....

Here are five of the best apps available today that give you total control over your files. ES File Explorer Pro The standard (free) version of ES File Explorer is something of a legendary app, with over 5 million reviews on the Google Play Store and an average score of 4.5 stars out of 5. The Pro upgrade costs a paltry £2.79/$2.99 and removes the ads that accompany the free alternative, while bringing new features such as support for multiple cloud storage services....

Available in a rainbow of colours, it gives simple but effective rubberised protection to the Pixel’s aluminium frame. Available for the Pixel XL here. Best Google Pixel and Pixel XL cases A ridiculously good value case if you don’t want to fork out for Google’s is this opaque, thin case. Not much else to say, but at under a fiver it speaks for itself. Check out the Pixel XL one here for the same price....

If you’re about to buy a graphics card, be sure to read our tips below, and you’ll spend your money wisely. What should I look for when buying a graphics card? The first thing to decide is what exactly you’re going to use your graphics card for. If you’re planning on playing games which aren’t graphically intensive (popular games like League of Legends, Dota 2, World of Warcraft and Fortnite don’t require an expensive graphics card) then you don’t need a top-end card ....

Cars had annoying looped instrumentals instead of proper radio tracks, and the game just didn’t offer the same level of craziness as fans had come to expect from the series. Read next: Best games coming out in 2017 Best GTA games ever: Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 While we’re aware that technically, GTA: London was comprised of mission packs from the first GTA game, the new game brought with it a number of improvements, and a whole new city to explore....

With Android Oreo, a notch like the iPhone X’s that means the screen appears bigger, a face unlock feature, high end specs and a price to make OnePlus blush, we’re recommending the new Honor 10. You can find out more about the Honor 10, how it compares with its rivals and how much it impressed us in our Honor 10 review. Launched on 15 May, it’s available to buy now in the UK from a variety of retailers....

If you rely on a laptop or desktop PC for work, a good monitor makes multitasking possible and means you’re not limited to a small screen. It’s something you won’t want to be without. Black Friday is one of the best times to buy one, but the next one is a long way away – 24 November 2023. However, plenty of great deals are available all year round, especially if you’re based in the US or UK....

Experienced VR heads will be able to tell the difference between the Quest and the Vive – which is higher-resolution, has a higher refresh rate and by being attached to a PC is capable of more powerful games and applications such as Facebook’s Quill animation suite. However if you’re new to VR or have only used cheaper headsets like the Oculus Go or Cardboard wraparounds for phones, you’ll be wowed by what you can experience with the Oculus Quest....

It’s made of a TPU (essentially, silicone) interior and a carbon-fibre exterior with a brushed metal finish. You can expect shock absorption and, of course, protection from scratches and scrapes. The interior pattern also helps dissipate heat. If that’s not enough, the Sentinel comes with a tempered glass screen protector. The ArmourDillo, as the namesake goes, makes an effective armour for your phone. This is another rugged case from Olixar and one that we’ve featured in many of our phone case round ups before....

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There are various things to consider, especially when you can spend under $300/£300 or over $2,000/£2,000 on TVs that, on the whole, look like they offer the same thing. We’ve got a mix of prices here but you can check our dedicated chart of the best budget TVs if you haven’t got much to spend. Do you need OLED screen? What is Mini-LED? Should you go with Philips to enjoy Ambilight?...

Membership costs £5.99 per month and £59.99 per year in the UK (currently this is discounted to just £29.99 per year), and $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year in the US. There’s also a seven-day free trial available. You can sign up for BritBox UK here, and Britbox US here. Our Friends in The North Get a look at Daniel Craig before he was Bond, and Christopher Eccelston before he was The Doctor, with this nine-part drama....

Manufacturers have been exploring ways to make their products more resistant to dirt, shock, extreme temperatures and moisture for years – GoPro cameras were born out of such a need – and nowadays there are established methods that help guarantee such tech is more resilient. Originally, you had to look at the likes of LifeProof and other specialist phone case makers to gain the necessary protection against the elements for your mobile; adding bulk to their otherwise sleek, lightweight designs and complicating access to ports and controls in the process....

Microsoft has even said that “with the Windows 10 Mobile OS end of support, we recommend that customers move to a supported Android or iOS device.” So if the company that makes Windows phones is saying you shouldn’t use them then you probably shouldn’t. Try these better phones instead. They even run all the Microsoft mobile apps – they are not exclusive to Microsoft hardware. The death of Windows phones is a real shame and an ongoing saga in the mobile world....

“They’ve really done a lot for the agency to make people think it’s cool to work at NASA again,” says senior computer scientist Chris Mattmann, who works at Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL), one of ten NASA centres. Mattmann is speaking at the ITEX conference in Auckland on November 8 at the Viaduct Events Centre. He has worked for NASA since he was an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, when he took a part time academic position....

Mobile phones and palmtop PCs with Bluetooth short-range wireless capabilities are currently rarer than hens’ teeth and carry a premium price tag. They also draw much more power than conventional devices and are more bulky because of the extra components. Nat Semi’s new chipset requires less than half the power of its previous Bluetooth chipset, so the batteries of mobiles using it should last far longer. Several manufacturers are currently evaluating the chipset and plan to build devices ready for Christmas....

Designed like a traditional countertop toaster oven, this air fryer has a pull-down door instead of a drawer, wire racks instead of a basket, and a rotisserie spit and mesh drum, which adds a touch of novelty to roasting a whole chicken or cooking a batch of chips. Design & appearance In the box is a 10-litre oven, three wire trays, a mesh basket cylinder, a black drip tray, a rotisserie spit, a rotisserie handling fork, and the manual....

Research of more than 1,700 Brits that use the social network revealed just 12 percent have changed their default privacy settings so only they themselves can see the pictures they are tagged in. However, 26 percent admitted that anyone can see photos of them on the site, while more than half (58 percent) said their privacy settings restricted it just to those they are friends with on the site. More than half (56 percent) said they have intoxicated photos on their profile they wish their colleagues could not see and eight percent said there were some images that could result in serious trouble for them at work....

Because where named brands are looking to pack all the very latest technology into their products, a service provider merely wants happy customers. And that means the variety that won’t ring up tech support with a difficult problem, or terminate their contract in frustration. Therefore, ISPs tend to favour technology that’s reliable without being remotely experimental and they also don’t want to provide any more things to configure in the routers firmware than is genuinely necessary....