Posts Tagged ‘featured’
Review: Samsung Galaxy S4 (best phone in the world right now?)
Overview You’d think Samsung’s gameplan for this year would be pretty simple after shifting over 50 million Galaxy S3s. Make last year’s stonkingly successful phone slightly bigger and slightly better, sell buck...
Download these best Samsung Galaxy S4 apps first
MX Player US$Free Google Play The Swiss Army knife of Android video players is one of our first go-to apps on any new device, and the Galaxy S4 is no exception. Apart from playing everything you can throw at it, it’s also...
Toughest cases for iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S
TaskOne iPhone toolkit US$75, indiegogo.com Earn yourself some man points by strapping the TaskOne case onto your iPhone, instantly upgrading it to a protective 16-utensil multitool. Engineered from aluminium and polycarbonate ...
How to make your smartphone battery last for days, not hours
Turn the brightness down This one is pretty “duh”, but you might be surprised at how much screen brightness affects a phone’s battery life, especially if you happen to be a “power user”, barely able to tear yourself a...
Skype still banned in the UAE – here’s why we don’t care
The Telecoms Regulatory Authority (TRA) has decided not to amend its VoIP policy banning Skype and other services in the UAE. This comes after weeks of speculation that the TRA might finally lift its archaic regulations blockin...
LG sells five-month-old Nexus 4 for double the price in the UAE [UPDATE]
After waiting a fingernail-biting five months to bring the latest Google phone to the UAE, LG has just announced it will be flogging the Android-toting device for US$550 (Dhs1,999) – almost double that of America’s ...
Best gadgets for spring cleaning your pad
Karcher Window Vac WV 50 from US$80, karcher.co.uk Touted as the world’s first window vacuum cleaner on the market, Karcher’s Window Vac promises to do away with that manky old squeegee cluttering up the cupboard un...
Apple iWatch should last five days without a charge, land later this year
The Apple iWatch is fast becoming one of the most anticipated gadgets of the year – right behind the rumored Apple Television. But until recently it’s been little more than rumour. Now a Bloomberg report predicts the iWat...
Everything you need to know about Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
The first trailer for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag has landed, and armed with info from its launch event in London last week, we can safely say that it looks like the best in the series yet. Here’s all you need to...
Panasonic Lumix TZ40 review
Panasonic Lumix TZ40 – Introduction The TZ40 is the latest flagship model to grace Panasonic’s perennially popular ‘TZ’ travel zoom range, and while little has changed on the outside, under the hood the new model brings...
This super-fast, tech-filled Range Rover Sport will soon be spotted on SZR
It may look like a slightly meaner version of the existing Land Rover Range Rover Sport, but this road-filling 4×4 is a fundamentally different beast. Land Rover has taken the wraps off its latest Range Rover at a New York...
Our favourite tech that’s come back from the dead
Nintendo Nintendo’s GameCube took an almighty pasting from the PlayStation 2 and Xbox (the former reportedly outselling it by eight to one) and its trademark style of cute, cuddly and colourful games was looking dangerously o...
Best Tech April Fools jokes – 2013 edition
Iron Man Suit “I wouldn’t want a fully working Iron Man Suit,” said nobody, ever. Even with a price tag of US$40,000 this spectacular machine would turn anyone into Tony Stark. Minus the billions. And the geni...
Win! HTC One
After months of leaks and speculation – the one phone to rule them all has arrived The HTC One packs an eye-watering 4.7in 1080p display (that’s 468ppi for you pixel lovers) as well as a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 ...
