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Mobvoi Home Treadmill review!
Keeping up with my fitness routine during quarantine has been more challenging than I was expecting. Not only a review for this rad little home treadmill, is anyone down for starting a little techie fitness club? Continue reading “Mobvoi Home Treadmill Review and Tech Geek Fitness Challenge?”
Looking up routers, I’ve been hunting for a combo of fast WiFi and FASTER ethernet!
QNAP makes great storage and networking equipment. I use one of their NAS solutions, so pairing that with their new router, we should expect faster local networking!
Here are some thoughts running this router for a couple months!
Continue reading “QNAP QHora-301W Router Long Term Review: WiFi 6 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet!”
Samsung was early to market with the S21 this year.
In a move to reduce prices over last year’s S20, the new S line from Samsung is a less feature rich offering than its predecessor. While those compromises are debatable, and are certainly more a conversation about personal preferences than objective improvements, the main touted improvement for the phone has been the top of the line Snapdragon 888.
This chip marks a change in SOC from Qualcomm, including one larger CPU performance core along side three more powerful CPU cores, in addition to a quartet of lower power CPU cores. The SD888 is also packing the latest and greatest GPU from Qualcomm, and as expected, our synthetic benchmarks show generational improvements.
That’s only the beginning of a conversation about performance though. How does the S21 stack up against last year’s handsets? How should we feel about a Galaxy S which is pre-throttled out of the box?
Performance testing is more involved than running a synthetic bench and comparing who’s number is bigger. Let’s dig a little deeper than that. Here’s the Galaxy S21: By The Benchmarks! Continue reading “Galaxy S21 By the Benchmarks: The performance plateau…”
Smartwatch vs Fitness Tracker? What’s you’re wearable flavor?
I’m definitely eating my feelings these days, and I’m getting a little TOO soft around my mid-section. Checking out some options to track my workouts, Amazefit has been HIGH on my list of requested wearables to review. Good hardware.
Great battery life. Maybe the MOST granular tracking app I’ve ever used? Continue reading “Amazfit GTR 2e Review: Yeah… I gotta get back in shape…”
ROG, BlackShark, RedMagic. Gaming phones are becoming a more popular category for folks who really want to drive POWERFUL pocket computers. Spending some time with the RedMagic 5S from 2020, here’s what I hope to see on gaming phones this year! Continue reading “What’s NEXT for Gaming Phones in 2021?”
NUMBER 7 WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!!!
But seriously, it’s probably healthy to check in from time to time. What DO tech reviewers look like from outside our little techie bubbles? Why did this one meme joke make it to the front page of Reddit?
We’re all kind of dealing with different flavors of an existential tech crisis. Let’s chat.
Are we THAT out of touch? No. No it’s the children who are wrong…
Continue reading “Tech Reviewers are SCUM! Reddit Weighs In!”
1More has a solid reputation for consumer audio gear. I really enjoy their options for multi-driver and noise cancelling ear buds. Turning their sights on a more cost friendly option, the ComfoBuds are a familiar solution for easy fit and communicator functions.
Let’s take a look! Continue reading “1More ComfoBuds Review: Comfy Communicator Earbuds!”
It’s time for a showdown! FIGHT FOR BLOOD! Psh! Psh! Psh!
(Those were supposed to be the punching sounds from my old showdown videos.)
Budget hardware is brutally competitive these days. The daily driver experience found near $400 is formidable, and we’re getting more options for different features. Adding 5G to the mix, these are the phones that will help move 5G forward in the Android space. More reasonably priced, but not compromising too much from the upper mid-range tier.
OnePlus has represented the idea of low price and high performance since the brand started. 2020 was a strong year for TCL coming out of the shadows with their own label on phones.
These two phones are primed for a battle!
Let’s see how some subtle differences effect performance! Continue reading “By the Benchmarks Budget Showdown! OnePlus Nord N10 vs TCL 10 5G UW!”