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Xiaomi has today announced pricing for its new e-scooters in the UK, along with the news that Three is now stocking the Mi 10 and Redmi Note 9 on contract.
MediaTek has announced its new affordable mid-range 5G chipset; Dimensity 720. It’s designed to offer a premium experience with ‘extreme energy efficiency’.
Honor has launched the Honor 9A smartphone alongside a series of offers and promotions for VIPs. The Honor 9A is the latest budget offering from Honor, with a massive 5,000mAh battery and £129.99 pricetag – available from Honor direct, Amazon and others from July. The Honor 9A comes with a… [Click for more]
READ MORE Honor launches new 9A smartphone alongside VIP offers
EE is bringing the world’s first 5G connected PC from Lenovo to the UK later this year, and it looks pretty awesome!
READ MORE Lenovo Yoga 5G fully connected laptop coming to UK on EE
Huawei has launched the MateBook 13 AMD Edition, featuring AMD’s Ryzen 5 processor. I’d hate to be Intel right now. Available in two configurations, with pricing starting at £649, the MateBook 13 has Huawei’s FullView display with minimal bezels, opting for a 3:2 aspect ratio that better suits productivity users… [Click for more]
Hauwei has added two new MateBook laptops to its 2020 line-up that started in January with two MateBook D series laptops. The jewel in the crown is the MateBook X Pro 2020, available with a tenth-generation Intel i5 or i7 processor, 16GB of RAM and 512GB or 1TB of storage…. [Click for more]
READ MORE Huawei launches MateBook X Pro 2020, plus a 13-inch MateBook: Pre-ordering open now
Back in 2017, the Vodafone Foundation developed an award winning app to help you aid cancer research. Now it’s letting you help Imperial College London fight COVID-19. The DreamLab app works by harnessing the computing power of multiple smartphones normally inactive overnight. Instead of sitting there doing nothing while you… [Click for more]
READ MORE Help fight Coronavirus by installing this app on your phone right now
Planet Computers has today opened a crowdfunding campaign for its latest keyboard-equipped smartphone. The Astro Slide has a brand new slide design, but still keeps the Psion keyboard users love. The key change is the new ‘rock up’ slide mechanism that enabled Planet Computers to remove the external display and… [Click for more]
Huawei has introduced its latest MateBook D series, available in 14 and 15.6-inch guises. Part of Huawei’s new 2020 vision to ‘bring digital to every person, home and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world’, these laptops will be part of a new ecosystem of products that will include new… [Click for more]
My relationship with Huawei goes way back. Back to a time when they were unknown by most consumers (just like HTC) but the company behind a considerable number of products people used all the time. My first real involvement was working on a supplement magazine featuring Huawei data products, amongst… [Click for more]
READ MORE Huawei goes all in with Huawei Mobile Services to offer a Google alternative
Lenovo launched the first laptop with integrated 5G at CES. The Windows 10 machine goes on sale this spring, but don’t expect to see it in the UK yet. The Yoga 5G is a 2-in-1 ultra-portable laptop, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx 5G Compute platform, with 5G speeds up to… [Click for more]
READ MORE Lenovo launches world’s first 5G laptop; on sale this spring from US$1499
Dell just reached out with a huge list of Black Friday deals. There’s no way I’ve got time to go through and tidy up this huge list, so I’ve posted the press release verbatim below. Pull up a chair, make a cup of tea and enjoy. Hopefully there’s a deal… [Click for more]
In addition to the Magic Watch 2, Honor has launched the View 30 and View 30 Pro, plus two MagicBook laptop PCs at its launch event in China’s capital. The Kirin 990 powered View 30 and View 30 Pro each come with 5G support and a SuperSensing AI triple camera,… [Click for more]
READ MORE Honor launches View 30 series and MagicBooks at China launch event (updated)
At the start of this year, Planet Computers (the company behind the Gemini PDA) showed off a prototype of its second-generation portable computing device that uses the classic Psion keyboard design, connected to modern-day hardware. The Gemini is still available to buy, but the Cosmo Communicator takes things to the… [Click for more]
READ MORE Hands-on with the Cosmo Communicator; virtually ready to ship to original backers
Samsung is bringing Galaxy S10 users some features recently launched on the Note 10 range, such as AR Doodle, a built-in video editor and Link to Windows integration. Handsets that will receive the update shortly include the S10, S10+, S10e and S10 5G. Upon completing the update, the camera application… [Click for more]
READ MORE Samsung brings Galaxy Note 10 features to S10 users
Huawei has used IFA, as it has done many times before, to launch its flagship chipset that will power a series of phones between now and next autumn. It also continues the theme of ending the year and starting the next with the most powerful chip. In this case, Huawei’s… [Click for more]
Huawei has shown the UK media its collection of 5G-enabled devices going on sale soon to complement the imminent launches of at least two 5G networks (with the other two following closely behind). The event wasn’t just to show off the 5G devices, but also a chance for Huawei and… [Click for more]
One of the other things I saw extremely briefly at Mobile World Congress was a 4G connected wallet that hopes to bring a single, Android-powered, device to manage all your mobile payments. This includes NFC-based contactless payments, peer-to-peer payment transfers, and even cards for travel in various locations (such as… [Click for more]
