Let's Talk Tech
Just a bit of fun for our channels. Last year TK and I swapped our favorite premium phones of 2018. This year we’re taking a challenge from our friend @FatProduce to spend a week with a CHEAP phone. Who picked the BEST phone under $75? TK finally gets hands on with what I picked out for him! Say hello to the XGODY RS! Continue reading “#CheapPhoneChallenge Begins! TK Bay Meets the XGODY RS!”
***UPDATE 7/16/2019***
Pretty hilarious. I wanted to draw a winner live on yesterday’s podcast, but when I tried logging into Gleam, they were in the middle of a server migration and the entire site was down. You can see the carnage from the podcast here.
It took a while, but I was finally able to pick a winner. Congratulations to @warforge2004 on Twitter! And, a thank you to everyone who participated. I hope to do an international contest soon!
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I reviewed the M5 Lite a couple months ago, and now I’m partnering with Huawei to give one away!
One lucky winner (USA ONLY) will walk away with a 10″ Android slate, which includes a stylus in the box! You can get more info in the video below, or hit the Gleam.io contest widget for the full rules and list of entries! Happy summer! Good luck!
Continue reading “Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite Summer Sweepstakes! (Contest Completed!)”
Coolpad Legacy smartphone review! I want to spend more time with mid-range and entry level phones. It’s easy to get spoiled by premium handsets. After spending some time with the $40 Ilumina, the folks at Coolpad had another budget handset for me to check out. We might think phones at this price might be cheap cash grabs targeting the most vulnerable consumers, but this inexpensive phablet might have a few tricks up its sleeve… Continue reading “Coolpad Legacy on Metro by T-Mobile: Android at $180?”
Checking in on the OnePlus 7 Pro! Three weeks after launch, and a trip to Taipei for Computex, how has this move into the premium market held up? The phone is crazy powerful. It has a gorgeous screen. But, is anything holding it back? Did it live up to my “all-mobile” travel lifestyle, or did I need to lean on another phone for work? Let’s chat! Continue reading “OnePlus 7 Pro: 3 weeks and a trip to Taipei”
Before we get into this, I’d like you to check something on your phone. Look through your app drawer. Look up your battery stats. If you use any kind of Digital Wellbeing tracking, look at the list of services used. I’d like you to look up what apps and services really get used on your phone. I’ll come back to this, but you probably already know where I’m going after reading the title of this editorial.
In 2016 I was in Germany covering IFA with Jaime for Pocketnow. We had just finished a Huawei presser, the company showing off a new pair of premium mid-range phones. This was a bit confusing between all the various lines of Huawei and Honor gear, but they sent us away with a Nova and a Nova Plus to demo and review.
I was extremely skeptical. This phone was going to be expensive for its internals, starting at €400. Pricing it above my precious Honor 8 felt “wrong”. I am a professional though, so I popped the smaller Nova out of its box, gave Jaime the larger phone, and we shot a first impressions video from our hotel.
Reading the specs, being concerned about price, and then using the phone, those concerns slowly evaporated. Continue reading “Pixel 3a doesn’t just cover the basics: Your tech elitism costs you cash”
I like to check in with my Wife as a barometer for where “general” consumers might be when it comes to new gadgets. She currently uses a work issued iPhone 8 (which she asked for specifically as she wanted a smaller phone with TouchID), and she still has not given back my LG G7 after breaking her previous phone.
Typically when she buys her own phones, she’s leaned towards the entry level. She was excited by her Alcatel Idol 3, where she got a small phone, with stereo speakers, for less than it cost to replace the screen on her cracked Galaxy S5.
After that she got a Moto G5, where she was stoked to have a metal backed phone for cheap. Both the Idol and the Moto succumbed to the destructive environment of her purse, so she’s “borrowing” my G7, in a rugged armor case.
It’s doing OK…
So, I was curious what she would think about the OnePlus 7 Pro. No prep. No coaching. Just put the phone in her hand, and see how she would react.
Unsurprisingly, she kept it pretty practical. Continue reading “Mrs. GadgetGuy’s First Reaction to the OnePlus 7 Pro, Written as a One-Act Play!”
OnePlus 7 Pro first impressions! Can we talk about value? What happens when a budget brand tries to move upscale? The OP7 Pro offers up a different solution than the OnePlus 6T, so how should we adjust our metrics for grading it? Let’s have a chat about “Worth-It-Ness”…
Continue reading “OnePlus 7 Pro: WORTH IT??? – Can we talk about “worth”?”
OnePlus 6 one year later! We’re just a couple weeks away from the OnePlus 7 launch. It’s the perfect time to take a look back at last year’s mid-ranger. The first OP of 2018 was a bit overshadowed by the 6T, so how has this phone held up? Was it well supported? How is the resale value holding up? Let’s take a look back, and also share some thoughts on the future of this brand!