Gareth, Matt and Phil get together to chat about the latest mobile phone, tablet and chromebook news in the UK.
This week we discuss the OnePlus and whether or not it will really be a $1 superphone or will even materialise at any price. We discuss Nokia’s name change and un-change as well as Gareth’s look at the Xperia Z1 compact.
Featuring Gareth, Matt and Phil
Tracyandmatt.co.uk present this quick look at the technology news for the last week. Gareth Myles comments on some of the more interesting stories including Project Ara, The Sony Xperia Z1 Compact and US Airways legendary twitter activity.
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The SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive is a simple little USB peripheral that opens a wifi connect and allow off device storage with streaming capabilities. The big bonus here is allowing the user the ability with swap out the MicroSD card inside creating limitless possibilities for storage on the go.
Here I’m unboxing and setting up the SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive…
Wirelessly store, share, stream movies, photos, music, and documents across your smartphones, tablets and computers
Simultaneously connect & access data stored on up to 8 devices via Wi-Fi
No internet connection, cables or router required, works on all Wi-Fi enabled devices
Up to 4 hours of video streaming on a single charge
Access with free app, compatible with iOS 5.0 or later, Android 2.3 or later and Kindle devices
Access with internet browser, compatible with all Wi-Fi enabled devices
Charging and accessing with USB 2.0 connection interface or higher
Optional Wi-Fi password protection and 128-bit AES encryption
UK stockists are Amazon (£41.90) Currys (£49.99) and PC World (£49.99). Those prices relate to the 16GB size.
The 32GB size is priced at £59.99 whilst the 64GB size is priced at £99.99.
Sony released the Xperia Z1 Compact a little before the Z2 and the it seems to be a happy medium between the Z1 and Z2 in a smaller form factor.
Here we take an initial look at Sony’s modestly priced, smaller, high-end phone. This device has almost everything you would expect from the Z1 and more, combined into a smaller handset. Also features the water resistant technology, Walkman software and and elegant design.
Gareth, Dan and Phil are back for more phone and tablet chit chat from the UK
In this week’s show we discuss Windows Phone 8.1 developer software, Google Camera going standalone on Google Play, The Amazon Phone, Project Ara and much more.
Google release Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android
Project Ara reveals some interesting prospects
Featuring Gareth, Matt and Phil
Tracyandmatt.co.uk present this quick look at the technology news for the last week. Gareth Myles comments on some of the more interesting stories including the Samsung Galaxy S5 launch, an unboxing of the HTC One (m8,) a slew of Lenovo tablets and much more.
Free iPhone 5c at £23.99 pm on EE – with voucher IPHONE5C99 normalls £34.99
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (Black) £368.40 Amazon.de
Pre Order Oppo Find 7a free 32GB SD card,Spare battery and Easy-Cover £330.00 @ Oppo
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Putting a smartphone’s functionalities into landline phone is the name of the game here. The Gigaset SL930A not only handles your home phone responsibilities but connects to the Internet and allows you to download apps from the Google Play store is Android is running the show. The Gigaset SL930A has a 3.2″ capacitive touchscreen with a full-touch user interface for quick, easy navigation. One of the interesting features is the included HDSPTM sound performance. With a standby time touted of up to 140 hours the Gigaset SL930A also comes with a preinstalled answering machine app with up to 55 minutes recording time.
HP have updated their Chromebook 14 for 2014 with a stylish and modestly priced machine that brings a lot to the table.
Taking many queues from the excellent 11″ HP this bigger brother has a few extras included to separate it from the rest somewhat similar line up of Chromebooks available now. Combining some of the best looks on a Chromebook to date with a generously proportioned keyboard and a beefy Haswell enabled processor this is a serious contender for the most desirable Chromebook on the market.
In the video below, you’ll see me unboxing our HP Chromebook 14 review unit and then checking out the hardware as well as starting up and having a look…
We’ve had our HTC One (M8) for a while now so thought iut was about time that we recorded a full hands-on video to show off some of the more important features and take a more detailed look at the hardware.
In the video below I’ll show you the hardware and discuss the specification before booting up and playing with the OS and user interface to look at some of the features that have changed in HTC Sense 6.0. I’ll also show you some of the elements that are part of the Duo Camera experience that features so heavily in HTC’s push of the HTC One (M8).
So what do we think of the HTC One (M8) so far? We’ll I’m really impressed with the design and build quality but that’s no surprise from and HTC device. Performance-wise the M8 is great and out-performs anything else that I’ve previously used. The camera is brilliant and the Duo Camera features allow for some really creative shots.
It’s a long video so I’m going to come back to some of the other features in another video soon…
SIZE: 146.36 x 70.6 x 9.35 mm
WEIGHT: 160 grams
DISPLAY: 5.0 inch, Full HD 1080p
CPU SPEED
PLATFORM
MEMORY
NETWORK
2G/2.5G – GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
3G – WCDMA:
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4G – LTE:
SIM
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CONNECTIVITY
SOUND
CAMERA
Duo camera
Front camera
MULTIMEDIA
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BATTERY
With the launch of the HTC One (M8), many of you are asking questions about performance, in particular the speed of the new device and how this compares to its predecessor, the HTC One (M7).
The M8 has a Snapdragon 801 chipset and Quad-core CPU clocked at 2.3GHz (The Asian market gets a 2.5GHz version!), and 2GB of RAM. Clock-speed wise this is a decent step up from the 1.7GHz quad in the M7.
So what does this clock speed jump equate to? In general usage the difference isn’t that noticeable but in intensive apps and games you’ll notice it more.
In the video below you’ll see an HTC One (M8) Benchmark compared to the HTC One (M7). The benchmark was run simultaneously to give some impression of the speed and how much quicker the M8 completed the test.
Interesting results in that the M8 has twice the score of the M7!
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