Reviews

Huawei, like every other smartphone manufacturer, has moved to a double-pronged flagship smartphone launch cycle this year, and 2018’s offering is the Huawei P20 and the Huawei P20 Pro. Of th…

OUR EARLY VERDICT The Huawei P20 Pro looks to be a significant upgrade on what came before it, with genuinely useful camera innovations, a top-end design and a significant upgrade to the internals …

OUR EARLY VERDICT The new Daydream View is, well, fine. It improves in some key areas – namely fit – but it still needs far more phone support to be a real must-have device. FOR Better …

OUR VERDICT Solid hardware design and construction can’t overcome the lack of attention given to the TOS NAS operating system and applications. Poor documentation, limited apps, and CPU power…

A solid inkjet that delivers top-quality poster-sized prints and can turn its hand to documents, too Pros A3+ photo printing Pics are nice and sharp Everyday prints are quite economical Cons Colour…

PRICE WHEN REVIEWED $199.99 HIVE VIEW CAMERA REVIEW Hive is taking another stab at the smart home camera market with the new Hive View. The original, dubbed the Hive Camera, looked like a typical h…

Highly effective cleaning and navigation at a reasonable price – the thinking robot-vacuum enthusiast’s alternative to the Dyson 360 Eye Pros Large dust bin Laser scanning Methodical cl…

PRICE WHEN REVIEWED US$49.99 AMAZON FIRE 7 REVIEW In 2015 Amazon launched the original £49 Fire tablet. It instantly became the benchmark for cheap tablets, despite not running Android nor of…

PRICE WHEN REVIEWED $49.99 AMAZON ECHO DOT REVIEW Alexa is a voice-activated assistant that’s built into Amazon’s Echo speakers and – more recently – its Fire tablets. In fa…

OUR VERDICT The HyperX Alloy Elite RGB is a gorgeous and great-looking keyboard that lighting enthusiasts will love, but its software could use a little more time in the oven. FOR Simple, ergonomic…