If you’re considering kitting out your home with smart home tech just in time for winter, your first step should probably be a smart thermostat.
The nascent tech has become a hotly contested sector in recent years, with devices from the likes of Nest – which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet – leading the charge.
Another top brand emerging from the smart thermostat industry is Ecobee, a Canadian company that, alongside Nest, differentiates itself from cheaper, copycat hardware with official support for voice commands.
User privacy is an ever-growing concern among technology customers. With its latest tactical smartwatch — the Tactix Delta — Garmin is taking those concerns seriously. Unfortunately, Garmin’s efforts come at a huge price tag. Like…a really huge price tag.
Right now, you can get your hands on Garmin’s latest privacy-focused smartwatch for about as much as the average flagship smartphone — a whopping $900. For that money, you get a couple of interesting features you most likely won’t find anywhere else.
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Realme launched its first tablet, the Realme Pad, less than six months ago. It wasn’t perfect by any measure, but it definitely stood out thanks to its budget price tag. Unfortunately, the company revealed last week that it wouldn’t be bringing any OS updates to the slate.
The saga made us question just how important OS updates are to people when buying a tablet. We posed this question to readers and here’s how you answered it.
The Solar Red HTC U11 variant, arguably the best version of HTC’s latest flagship, is now available for pre-order in the UK. The handset is priced at £649 — the same as the other color variants — and can be picked up exclusively from the official HTC website.
The Solar Red version joins the pre-existing blue, silver, and black U11 color options, though it’s only the red model that arrives with dual-SIM capabilities.
Xiaomi Mi Notebook 14 Horizon edition
The Mi Notebook 14 Horizon edition is a decent thin and light offering from Xiaomi that differentiates itself with design. The performances lives up to the category and should suffice for college students or users with light work loads. The lack of a webcam, backlit keyboard and other drawbacks allude to the corners that Xiaomi had to cut to hit the price. After spinning off Poco and Redmi, Xiaomi has been working hard to reinvent itself as a premium ecosystem player.
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Specs of the OnePlus 10R have allegedly leaked. It gets a slew of upgrades compared to the OnePlus 9R but loses the alert slider, a first for a numbered OnePlus phone. Update: April 12, 2022 (1:59 AM ET): OnePlus India CEO Navnit Nakra has confirmed to 91Mobiles that the upcoming R series “flagship device” will house a Mediatek Dimensity 8000 series chip. This more or less confirms that the OnePlus 10R will get the previously rumored Mediatek 8100 SoC.
PUBG Mobile players will start seeing some changes to the game soon. The developers behind the popular battle royale shooter are implementing a new “Gameplay Management” system that will help players understand how much time they’ve spent playing and encourage them to take breaks.
The new system is a response to countries attempting to ban PUBG Mobile due to accusations that the game is addictive and has a harmful impact on players, especially younger players.
The advent of the smartphone brought with it a dramatic shift in how people work, communicate, and play. Of course, the primary use of the ‘cellphone’ is still to make and receive phone calls, but our mobile devices are increasingly being utilized for a wide variety of other purposes. Email, social networking apps, internet browsing, and serious gaming capabilities mean that we have all the information we need at our fingertips and are never far away from breaking news or the next party invite.
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Leaked promotional material indicates Samsung Galaxy Note 9 pre-orders on Sprint will come with free accessories. Customers can choose from AKG noise-canceling headphones or a “Samsung Game Bundle.” Buyers can also choose to pick up both options for just $99. We’re still several hours away from the official announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, but information about potential pre-order deals is already leaking out. According to a poster that was sent our way from a reader, Sprint will offer those who pre-order the Note 9 a free pair of AKG noise-canceling headphones valued at $300 or a “Samsung Gaming Bundle” which is estimated to cost $150.
Money is an important aspect of human life. We use money to transact business by exchanging it for goods and services. We use our money to pay our rent, fill our tummies, buy our clothes, pay our monthly plan, fill the fridge with groceries, pay our medical bills, and a lot more things crucial to daily living.
Aside from fulfilling our human needs, we also use our money to reward ourselves by fulfilling our wants such as buying a new Android smartphone or having a massage.