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Beating the heat with the JISULIFE FA35Pro Portable Ultimate Bladeless Neck Fan!
As the temperature climbs, we can always use a little help staying comfortable! Here’s a handy wearable fan that cools your face. Hands free comfort for the summer months!
More info on Jisulife https://jisulife.com/products/jisulife-fa35pro-portable-ultimate-bladeless-neck-fan?utm_source=KOL&utm_medium=YT&utm_campaign=Juan Continue reading “JISULIFE FA35Pro Neck Fan: How Do YOU Beat the Heat?”
Last Monday of the month! That means we’re streaming in our PJs!
Hanging out for a chill chat, focusing on the Q&A, and nerding out with some good tech buddies. Topics can range to whatever YOU want to talk about, but something tells me we’re probably gonna spend some time talking about the Pixel 6A. Basically you’d need to be TERRIBLE at tech to give this thing a bad review…
Let’s get our tech week started right!
Continue reading “#SGGQA 260: We have to talk about the Pixel 6A… (July Pajama Podcast!)”
Joining TK for a co-stream on both of our channels!
Unboxing and setting up the Pixel 6A! Our first impressions with a LOT of snark at how some OTHER reviewers have been “critiquing” this new mid-ranger!
Plenty of actual coverage to come soon! Enjoy!
TK Bay on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/tkbay Continue reading “Google Pixel 6a 5G – Unboxing and Initial Impressions (TK Bay & Juan Bagnell)”
Innocn 15.6″ Portable OLED review!
Portable monitors are super fun. There are MANY gadgets in a home that are more fun to use with some extra screen real-estate. Add a second screen to a laptop, play games on a Nintendo Switch, or get a better look with your camera. Innocn delivers a VIBRANT panel in a slim shell!
Let’s take a look!
Innocn on Amazon (limited sale) https://amzn.to/3RROmGF Continue reading “Innocn 15.6″ Portable OLED Monitor: So Pretty…”
EZQuest Triple Monitor Hub Review!
I love docks and hubs. We can clean up our cable mess, add more features, and we don’t have to break the bank. The EZQuest is certainly designed to match A SPECIFIC PC, but it plays nice with ANY computer!
Let’s take a look! Continue reading “EZQuest Ultimate Triple Monitor Hub for the Mac Mini: Add more ports to ANY computer!”
FCC Chair is looking to reclassify “high speed” broadband, but are the new speeds actually competitive? Google is playing another dumb game with app names. Texas is struggle to support crypto mining. Elon Musk faces a tough judge on the Twitter case. Uber faces a scary number of assault claims.
The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images are stunning.
And we’ll round up some of the Macbook and Nothing Phone review reactions!
Let’s get our tech week started right!
Axon 40 Ultra vs Magic4 Pro!
So excited to have both of these brands back in the GadgetLab! Honor vs ZTE has been a classic showdown, with both companies delivering great performance at competitive prices. Which phone takes the win?
Let’s take a look! Continue reading “Honor Magic4 Pro vs ZTE Axon 40 Ultra: Battle of the Resurrected!”
We’re more than halfway through 2022, and it’s time to take a look at premium phone performance!
The Snapdragon 8 Gen1 has been a controversial chip for expensive Android phones. Qualcomm used ARM reference designs to build a powerful System on Chip. Samsung was responsible for producing the chip on Qualcomm’s designs. Then, manufacturers build phones around those power and thermal specifications.
That thermal conversation has been a challenge to track this year. The Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is a powerful chip, but it’s a finnicky performer if thermals and battery life aren’t handled appropriately.
This SOC arrived at the same time as some significant changes to Android. The way Android 12 handles storage reduces performance for numerous apps and services. Years of my benchmarking results on older phones are no longer directly comparable to current phones with Android 12 and newer.
Phones released in the first half of 2022 are a unique group of devices.
More powerful (but hotter) CPU and GPU, balanced against performance sapping software.
The refreshed Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 is starting to ship in new phones for the second half of the year. ARM is improving the power efficiency, Qualcomm is refining the design, and TSMC is replacing Samsung for the chip fabrication.
We’ll see where these companies are improving later in the year. We’ll get to see if the 8+ Gen1 runs cooler. We’ll get to see if app developers are taking better advantage of this SOC performance.
Let’s look at some benchmark scores! Continue reading “Summer 2022 Snapdragon 8 Gen1 Performance Round Up!”