At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Phenomenal main camera Powerful performance Excellent battery life Cons Divisive design Selfie camera disappoints Only available with Chinese software Our Verdict The Xiaomi 12S Ultra is a powerful phone in every respect, none more so than the beefy main camera. It’s big, but pays that off with beautiful bokeh and excellent low light photography. This is a Chinese exclusive though, so you’ll to put up with import fees and software quirks....

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Stylish design Massive screen Powerful performance Long battery life and speedy charging Solid camera system Cons Ultrawide camera could be better HyperOS is a little divisive Our Verdict The Xiaomi 15T Pro performs just like a flagship, but it comes at a much more affordable price. There are some drawbacks, like the relatively weak ultrawide camera and the bloatware-filled OS, but for the most part, it’s premium through and through....

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022, Xiaomi has unveiled the ‘flagship level’ Poco X4 Pro 5G smartphone as well as the budget-friendly Poco M4 Pro. The Poco X4 Pro 5G delivers what Xiaomi calls “an all-around flagship-level experience” including a 120Hz AMOLED display, 108Mp camera and 67W turbo charging. However, it starts at just €299 (around £250/US$340) making it around two or three times cheaper than many flagship phones ....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Pros Impressively priced Great battery life Fingerprint sensor 90Hz with AdaptiveSync Cons LCD display lacks vibrancy Basic camera setup Slow 18W charging Our Verdict Xiaomi’s mid-priced Redmi 10 looks great and has some decent features for such a low price. Just don’t expect it to do too much to a high standard. Best Prices Today: Xiaomi Redmi 10 Xiaomi has quietly become a force to be reckoned with in every price bracket, and the Redmi 10 sees the company offering a solid mid-range phone at an impressively budget price....

With the release of Intel 10th generation CPU, motherboard vendors have launched more than 40 models for their Z490 lineups. Among those, there are some obvious improvements over Z390 motherboards including more powerful power delivery for the CPU, higher memory frequency support and high-speed connectivity including 10GbE/2.5GbE LAN, Wi-Fi 6 plus Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20Gbps). More powerful power delivery and thermal performance. The Intel Core i9-10900K has 10 cores, which is two more than the Core i9-9900K and TDP is increased from 95W to 125W as well....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Zoostorm Stormforce Hurricane is a smart-looking PC that delivers entry-level performance at an entry-level price. The one?year warranty is disappointing, though. Best Prices Today: Zoostorm StormForce Hurricane 340 You wouldn’t be able to tell just by looking at it, but the Zoostorm StormForce Hurricane comes in close to the bottom of the price range for a competent VR-ready PC. Zoostorm StormForce Hurricane 340 review: Price Priced at £799 from Laptopsdirect....

GITEX is one of the largest global tech events in the calendar, a forum for key experts and leaders from all industries to come together to share and analyse current trends and forecast future tech developments. EZVIZ is among the attendees, representing the cutting-edge of smart home technology. Exploring the theme, “Into the Easy Evolution”, the brand is pointing the way towards the next stage of smart home development. In the Middle East, 12....

Staying productive – whether at work or in life – is easier in the age of AI. Outsourcing mundane tasks such as checking a document for typos or creating a cover letter for a new job to a chatbot like Google Gemini can streamline how you work. Instead of stopping to spell check a document, which can be tedious, you can ask Gemini to do that chore for you. Need a social media caption?...

Over the years, Google has rolled out software updates that introduce new features, improve existing ones, and fix issues to provide a better Android experience. We’ve seen interesting features that really changed our mobile experience, including the Material 3 Expressive redesign. While some recently added features bring major, helpful changes, others make little or no changes to how you use apps. Here are five features within Android that you can really do without....

At a Glance Our Verdict We understand the concept of Microsoft pushing Windows tablets at a cheaper price to make them more accessible to Consumers but we can’t avoid the fact that the OS is simply too difficult and fiddly on a screen this size. Best Prices Today: Acer Icona Tab 8W Acer Iconia Tab 8W hands-on review: Release date and price The Acer Iconia Tab 8W will arrive in October and will only set you back €149 (UK price TBC)....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Acer Liquid E3 is a tough phone to rate because it has some really outstanding features like the camera options, the display and the front-facing speakers, but suffers from a slow processor, a design that won’t appeal to everyone, old software and a lack of storage space or 4G. Best Prices Today: Acer Liquid E3 Acer Liquid E3 review: UK price As a mid-range smartphone, the Acer Liquid E3’s price tag will be appealing to many....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The GN246HLBbid may have a fast refresh rate, but the relatively high price, unimpressive colour accuracy and limited viewing angles mean it isn’t great value. Best Prices Today: Acer GN246HLBbid Acer GN246HLBbid review: Build quality and Design Acer probably needs to work on its naming scheme as the Predator GN246HLBbid is an unnecessary mouthful of numbers and letters. The Predator part, though, marks this out at a gaming display....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Acer Swift 5 is an extremely light laptop. Others with 13-14in screens tend to weigh 40% more. We’re not talking about a trifling few grammes here. It roughly matches the weight of the 12in MacBook, which is far less powerful. The Swift 5 has an obvious appeal for people who need to carry their laptop around all the time but don’t want to be left with a computer that can’t handle demanding applications....

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Surprisingly high performance Thin and very light for 16in Excellent OLED display Quality webcam Cons Not great battery life Mediocre speakers Our Verdict AMD shows us where it’s at with a power-efficient Zen 4-based Ryzen CPU that’s capable of doing most things and is quiet and cool between runs. It’s a slim and surprisingly light laptop and there’s quality in most things, except the speakers, but Considering the price, it’s hard to complain....

With over 70 years of audio engineering experience and over 1500 patents in audio acoustic engineering to its name, AKG is a big-hitter in the audio world. Despite being bought up by Samsung back in 2017, the company hasn’t stopped producing great-sounding audio equipment – it’s just that you’ll now also find it built into Samsung products like the Galaxy S20 . The latest in a long line of headphones manufactured by AKG is the new AKG Y400, a more fashion-focused, budget-friendly option than most of the AKG range....

The Echo Dot Kids Edition costs $69.99 but is often discounted and at the time of writing was down to $49.99. That’s great value. How is the Echo Dot Kids Edition different? Alexa is more child-friendly, and will only play age-appropriate music and audiobooks. She will also ensure that any answers to questions your kids ask are appropriate and will restrict the use of Skills to only those that are safe for kids to use....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Pocket Camp is unlikely to go down as one of the all-time great Animal Crossings, but it understands that this is a series as popular for its charming tone as it ever was for its gameplay, and that tone is front and centre throughout. If you try to let Pocket Camp take over your life, you’ll hit up against frustrating walls of timers and micro-transactions pretty quickly....

The rumoured smaller, cheaper HomePod mini finally broke cover today as Apple announced it ahead of the new iPhone 12. The HomePod mini shares a similar spherical design to the new fourth-gen Echo and comes in white or space grey. It’s mains powered just like its bigger brother, and has a similar touch-sensitive panel on top which lights up when you tap it or say the magic word ‘Siri’ to call up the digital assistant....

In summary: Tech Advisor reports that Apple’s iPhone Air 2 will feature a dedicated ultra-wide camera, addressing the original model’s major flaw of having only a single 48MP rear camera despite its £999 price. Apple is reportedly using custom ultra-thin Face ID components to create space for the second camera, fixing previous criticism about terrible zoom photography capabilities. The iPhone Air design technology may influence Apple’s upcoming foldable iPhone, expected to launch this year at around $2,399, despite the Air 2’s reportedly poor sales performance....

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Slick, compact design Plenty of ports Fantastic starting price Powerful entry model Cons No SD card reader Upgrades get expensive fast Our Verdict The entry-level Mac Mini is both impressively powerful and shockingly affordable making it arguably the best value computer on the market right now, but the price of spec upgrades makes more powerful models less appealing. Best Prices Today: Apple Mac mini (M2, 2023) A new Mac Mini isn’t often greeted with too much fanfare – after all the design has hardly changed in years, it doesn’t have any natural rivals on the Windows side to compare against, and Apple mostly just updates the CPU and calls it a day....