At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Super-thin tracker Supports Apple’s giant Find My network Loud alert sound Cons Non-replaceable battery Our Verdict Apple users shouldn’t restrict themselves to the AirTag when it comes to choosing the best tracker. The Chipolo Card Spot boasts nearly all the location-finding benefits of the AirTag but in a slimmed down, flattened-out design that better slips into a card wallet or purse than fatter rivals from Apple and Tile....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Crackdown 3 is fun to play and requires very little in terms of concentration to perform well, but at the same time, it’s fairly limited in scope and most players won’t find enough on offer to keep coming back. Best Prices Today: Crackdown 3 Five years after the official reveal, Crackdown 3 is almost here – but has it been worth the wait? To say that the development of the game has been troubled is an understatement, with multiple delays and rumours about a huge change to the team emerging in 2018....
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Grinds coffee beans Washable, reusable filters Compatible with pre-ground coffee Large water tank Cons No milk frothing Can be messy Can’t alter coffee or water volumes Our Verdict There’s a lot to love about Cuisinart’s coffee maker for one. It does away with messy, wasteful filter papers and, as it doesn’t make more coffee than you want, there’s no decline in flavour as you might experience when keeping a carafe of coffee hot....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Dell knows what it’s doing when it comes to Chromebooks. This new, rugged model has plenty to offer in terms of speed and durability, but you don’t feel like you’re sacrificing much in return. With the long battery life and unique waterproofing feature it does seem like a device that’s built to last, which is good as you’ll want to keep using it for a long time to come....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Devil May Cry 5 should satisfy your hack-and-slack itch in a big way. Huge, Hollywood-esque attacks are amped up by insane combos and devastating effects to create something truly satisfying, and the story has a lot to offer too. Best Prices Today: Devil May Cry 5 It’s been a long 11 years since fans last got a proper Devil May Cry game, interrupted only by the controversial reboot /spin-off DmC – developed by Ninja Theory – but Capcom gave fans what they were looking for at E3 2018 when it revealed Devil May Cry 5 ....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Dexim XPowerSkin looks good but feels a bit cheap and underperforms for its £70 price tag, when compared to better-built cases from the likes of Mophie and Powersuit. Its 2,000mAh battery offers just a 70% charge, and the two-part case itself is super-difficult to remove, which is frustrating when it comes to sync time. At half the price it might be worth Considering if you don’t mind the hassle of getting the case off....
Doctor Who just wrapped up its two-part finale. It began last week with the intriguing concept of a backwards world, where our queer Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) was married to companion Belinda (Varada Sethtu) in a blueprint nuclear family household, along with Poppy (Sienna-Robyn Mavanga-Phipps), the daughter they never had, and no memories of their time-travelling adventures. But as the mystery started to unravel, all the qualities that made the situation compelling fell apart – and this sums up my experience with the trajectory of two key characters: companion Belinda Chandra and antagonist Mrs Flood (Anita Dobson)....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict There’s plenty to like about the Doogee Mix. The display, while only 720p, is bright, colourful and detailed, plus the slim bezels make it seem bigger than the actual 5.5in size. An unfettered Android experience is welcome, and the battery life means you’ll make it through the day without a problem. Cameras are a bit hit and miss, but you get get good results if there’s plenty of light....
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent vacuuming and mopping Granular controls for scheduled cleaning ProLeap and VersaLift give it more range Genuine set-and-forget cleaning Cons Cleaning takes time Battery seems to run down quickly In-app carpet detection is patchy Cables can still be an issue Our Verdict While its climbing ability is its headline feature, Dreame’s new flagship, the X50 Ultra Complete, has much more to offer. It’s not flawless but its vacuuming and mopping are so good, and it does so much with such little input from its user, that it’s endlessly useful....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Pros Small Quiet Portable Good range of settings options Cons Better suited to smaller rooms No smart features Our Verdict This compact air purifier will tackle VOCs and particle pollution – and do it quietly. But it’s better suited to smaller spaces. Best Prices Today: Dreo True HEPA Air Purifier Dreo is a home appliance brand, specialising in air care products, such as heaters, fans, compact air conditioners and more....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict This is undeniably a phenomenal cordless vacuum, and likely as close as anyone’s gotten yet to killing cords. The battery life still won’t be enough to clean a big house top-to-bottom, and the weight is a bit of an issue, but it packs enough oomph to justify the steep price. Just stick to the Animal model, and resist paying over the odds for unnecessary add-ons....
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Fast printing (relatively!) Automatic bed levelling Intuitive touchscreen controller Good for beginners Cons No Wi-Fi More expensive in UK than US Unreliable Elegoo slicer software Our Verdict The Neptune 4 offers everything most people are looking for in a first 3D printer. Just don’t use Elegoo’s buggy slicer software. Best Prices Today: Elegoo Neptune 4 There are so many 3D printers, especially budget ones, that it can be hard to know where to start if you’re a beginner....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict A similar performer to the UK’s best budget phone, the Moto G5, but with enhanced cameras and more storage, the Elephone P8 Mini is a great buy if you’re happy to import it from China. Best Prices Today: Elephone P8 Mini A dual-camera at the rear and a 16Mp selfie camera with soft flash, a colossal 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM. It doesn’t sound like the kind of specification you would usually associate with a budget phone....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Elephone W2 Smart Watch offers decent design and build quality for the price – it’s something of a bargain with the current Gearbest offer on this front. It also offers excellent battery life due to being an analogue watch with smart functions. However, beyond activity tracking and call alerts those functions don’t work properly – or at all – leaving us pretty disappointed....
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict We like the Emie Memo’s fun design and its shake-activated power status feature, but we aren’t so taken on its confusing LED colour system – it’s all back to front. It’s not the best value for money, but when compared to the similar OnePlus Power Bank free delivery means it works out cheaper. Auto-on/-off and passthrough charging are welcome features. Best Prices Today: Emie Memo A fun design and shake-activated power status make this Emie Memo 10,000mAh power bank stand out among a sea of similar devices....
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Inexpensive photo prints Great print quality Mess-free ink refills Cons No display No scanner / copier Expensive to buy Our Verdict The ET-18100 is capable of excellent print quality, and very fast prints when required. But it’s expensive to buy so is only for those who really need to print a lot of A3 images Best Prices Today: Epson EcoTank ET-18100 Epson’s EcoTank system has been with us for almost a decade now....
Cleaning the kitchen and bathroom floors is one of the most hated jobs around the home. Between sticky spills, hair, dust, and pet fur, it’s hard to find a cleaner that can do it all. What this means is that you’ll likely need to clean twice: going over the floors first with a vacuum, and then with a mop. And then, once you’ve finished the floors, you still need to clean and sanitise your mop....
They say ‘no rest for the wicked’ and that’s certainly true for the tech industry as gadget makers and journalists congregate in Las Vegas, often for their first day back at work after Christmas. CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) is the world’s biggest tech show, so big that the Las Vegas Convention Centre can’t contain it, so it spills out into many of the hotels along the strip. As usual, we have feet on the ground checking every hall and just about every booth across the show to find the best and most innovative technology coming to market in 2026....
Microsoft held a Surface hardware event in New York on 2 October and unleashed a slew of new products, some familiar, some new, and one completely unexpected. Each product announced was a Surface-branded computer of some sort, but we did not expect the company to reveal what is essentially a Surface phone in the Surface Duo. As well as that there were some more conventional Surface products announced and updated but it marks an important decision by Microsoft to not only press ahead and innovate with hardware form factors but to also release an Android tablet that is practically a phone – only two years after it officially declared Windows Mobile dead....
As per its monthly promise, Google is rolling out another free upgrade package of enhancements for its Pixel devices . Google’s March Pixel Drop update not only adds intriguing new features to the Pixel 9 series and older phones, but there’s also some big news for the Pixel smartwatches . The over-the-air (OTA) rollout started this week and will continue over the coming days. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new, including multi-camera support and improved satellite messaging....
