Inevitably any phone this cheap comes with some serious compromises, and anyone used to a faster phone may find the E5 Play a challenge to get along with – but at less than £100 it’s really hard to complain too much. One quick note before we go on though: this is the UK version of the E5 Play, which is actually slightly different to the E5 Play that was released in the US, both in specs and software....
First things first, the new 2014 Moto G isn’t actually called the Moto G2. It’s still just called the Moto G but that’s confusing so to make it easier, we’re going to call it the G2 in this article. It’s also worth noting that Motorola updated the original model with 4G and a microSD card slot (nothing else is different). We’ll be referring to this as the Moto G 4G....
While those two phones have better specs, the G6 Play has charmed us right out the box. It is well designed, sleek yet sturdy and a decent performer considering the low-end spec sheet. Here’s our review explaining why the Moto G6 Play is such a good deal. Price and availability The Moto G6 Play costs £169/$199 but easily looks and feels at least twice that price. This places it firmly in the budget category, and similarly priced to the £199 Honor 9 Lite, £180 Nokia 5 and the older £169 Moto G5....
These days it’s enough to bag you a mid-range phone like the Motorola Edge 30 Fusion, which squeezes second-tier and older premium components into a modern flagship-like design. It’s not a completely unique approach, with the Honor 70 and Realme GT 2 offering something broadly similar of late. The Edge 30 Fusion might lack the headline-grabbing 200Mp main camera and cutting edge performance of the flagship Motorola Edge 30 Ultra, to which it serves as a step-down model....
We think we’ve met at least one of them already, as the Moto X40 has launched in China already – and based on the company’s history, is almost certain to come to the West as the Edge 40 Pro. Here’s what we know about that phone, when it might launch internationally, and what else might come in the Edge 40 series. When will the Motorola Edge 40 series be released?...
Nero’s BackItUp 2014 aims to make backup a real no-brainer. In the application’s basic form, a free download which comes with 5 GB of online storage, it’s pretty much click and go. You select the files you want to back up and the destination, which can be a local drive, external USB drive, CD/DVD, network storage or online and away it goes. If you want compression, encryption or automatic scheduled backup, you need to pay for one of the three Pro versions of the software....
We’ve got details for shows up to and including August and we’ll update this article when more become available. For now there’s plenty to get excited about including release dates for Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul Season 2, Marvel’s Daredevil Season 2, House of Cards Season 4 and Orange is the New Black Season 4. Also see: How to avoid the latest Netflix scam. Read: The 100 best movies on Netflix UK...
Here is how much the prices are changing by: Basic Plan: Increasing from £5.99 per month to £6.99 per month Standard Plan: Increasing from £9.99 per month to £10.99 per month Premium Plan: Increasing from £13.99 per month to £15.99 per month That marks an extra £1 per month for the Basic and Standard tiers and an extra £2 per month for the Premium tier, falling largely in line with the new American Netflix prices....
23.16% of Steam users used an AMD CPU in June – a growth of 0.71% over May. That may not sound like much, but it means that AMD’s market share has grown by 2.01% since March. Given how rarely people actually change CPUs, that’s actually a pretty substantial gain for AMD – and a big blow to its rival Intel. It’s a similar story in graphics cards, where 16.23% of respondents now use an AMD GPU – up from just 13....
Only beaten by Alcatel for the sheer number of new phones it announced in Barcelona, Nokia brought five new handsets ranging from the retro 8110 4G, the mid-range New Nokia 6, and 7 Plus, all the way up to the 8 Sirocco which is a Samsung Galaxy S9 rival. The Nokia 1 is simple, cheap and fun; a phone aimed at those looking for the functionality and features of a smartphone but at a price normally associated with a feature phone....
Yesterday I wrote an article about the cheapest smartphones you can buy under £50, but for some people that’s still not cheap enough. For those of us who just need a mobile phone to make calls and texts you can go a lot cheaper – in fact, you can get a brand-new phone for free. Find out how to get a free phone in our Nokia 105 review. Also see: Best budget phones 2015 and cheapest 4G phones 2015....
The nVidia Quadro FX 5800 graphics card has 240 programmable parallel cores while its 4GB of dedicated graphics memory is designed to rapidly visualise and interpret massive data sets. Using the FX 5800 card’s vast image processing capabilities, designers will be able to render and view interactive 4D models – three-dimensional models that are represented as they evolve using time lapse visualisation. The nVidia Quadro FX 5800 card has a memory bandwidth of up to 102Gbps (gigabits per second) and fill rates of more than 52 billion texels per second....
The challenge in this puzzle-adventure game is to complete a series of everyday tasks without anyone rumbling that you are, in fact, a cephalopod. They don’t seem to notice the bright orange face, but too much accidental destruction means they’ll realise something is very, very wrong. Trouble is, Octodad has no bones in his rubbery ‘limbs’. His tentacle-arms and tentacle-legs flail uncontrollably no matter how finely you try to control them, so an act as simple as making a cup of coffee or crossing a room to open a cupboard becomes a nightmarishly destructive act of strain and terror....
OnePlus One review: What it is The One from OnePlus is a high-end smartphone at a mid-range price. It’s an Android smartphone running an OS based on 4.4.2 KitKat, with high-quality specifications, but in the UK it retails for just £229 – for now. As of 25 March in response to the falling value of the Euro the price will be increased to 299 Euro for the 16GB model and 349 Euro for 64GB (up from 269/299 Euro)....
The 6in, 800×480 touchscreen displays a familiar Android interface, albeit one that’s tailored for in-car use with big icons and text. Don’t expect the latest KitKat version of Android, though. The Smart runs a modified version of Gingerbread 2.3. In fact, it’s almost better to think of it as a proprietary system since there’s no access to Google Play: apps are downloaded from Parrot’s own Asteroid Market. (You can side-load apps if you’re that way inclined, but they may not work....
For good measure, the far-right image shows that Apple previously did file patents with notches, showing that the change might suggest 2020’s iPhones will lose the notch. Phones simply used to have bezels. We didn’t even used to mention them in phone reviews because they were always there. You needed a space at the top and bottom of the display to house important things like the speakers, earpiece, cameras and headphone jack....
Although Philips televisions have a reputation for being inscrutable, the brand appears to have reined in its loopy picture processing predilections considerably with this 55-incher. Now you really don’t need to tweak overmuch to get a picture commensurate with the cosmetics. If you need something a tad smaller, this 55-inch 6-series model is also available as the 48-inch 48PFS6609 and the 40-inch 40PF6609, priced at £750 and £600 respectively. Connectivity errs on the generous side, with four HDMI, SCART, component video with stereo phono audio, ethernet and two USB....
The key benefit of any ultra-short throw projector is that you can create a large image in a compact area with minimal effort. The projector needs only be placed between 10- and 45 cm from the wall to cast an image 50- to 100 inches across. A small shuffle from the wall is enough to double image size. You don’t have to worry about walking in front of any projected image or having a room large enough to create a big-screen experience....
Price and availability The Pixel Slate has no confirmed release date at the time of writing, but Google has said that it will appear before the end of the year. There’s a range of models, starting at £549/US$599 for the base tablet with an Intel Celeron processor 4GB RAM and 32GB of storage, and going up to £1,549/$1,599 for an 8th Gen Intel Core i7 with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage....
While we’re used to seeing Polar’s chest-mounted heart-rate monitors and triathlon-ready wearables at the higher end of the market, seldom do we see a Polar watch with a price as low as this. The Unite is a decidedly unobtrusive-looking tracker (weighing in at 32 grams) that focuses on distilling Polar’s established technologies into a single product that doesn’t break the bank. In the company’s own words, it’s designed to offer “everything that they [users] need, but nothing that they don’t....
