Samsung Galaxy unpacked event is currently underway and today we finally have the official announcement of the new Galaxy Note 7 (yeah, they skipped the Note 6). The new flagship from Samsung shares a lot of the same specs compared to the Galaxy S7 Edge. Inside we have the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset with […]
Review: Western Digital 8TB Red Hard Drive
The race for increased capacity continues, and while we have seen 8TB sizes and larger before: the first bunch of drives to launch with those sizes typically included some drawbacks with performance. Western Digital’s Red series has always offered excellent performance, and we would expect nothing less from their new 8TB drives. So lets […]
Microsoft announce Project Scorpio, their next console
Microsoft’s next big console is already underway and is set to offer true 4K visuals with 6 teraflops of GPU compute power. The new console doesn’t yet have a name, and is simply called Project Scorpio. The new hardware is aimed for released holiday 2017. Microsoft are pushing the new hardware for 4K resolution at 60fps […]
Microsoft announces Xbox One S
Microsoft quickly announced their new Xbox One S on stage at E3, most likley because it had already leaked completely before the event. None the less, the new Xbox One S is now official. The new console is 40-percent smaller than the previous Xbox One and will launch with up to 2TB hard drive capacity, […]
Review: Spigen Rugged Armour cover for Galaxy S7 Edge
The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge launched a few months back and one of the more important accessories and questions that get asked are ‘What cover should I buy’. Spigen were kind enough to send us their popular Rugged Armour case for the Galax S7 Edge for us to take a look at. So […]
Three Ireland customers reporting wide spread network issues
A lot of Three users have taken to boards.ie with multiple complaints about Three’s network service for the past few months. Most of the complaints are identical with users experiencing loss of signal completely, or having a signal but still not be able to make or receive calls. Data connections have also been affected with […]
Virtual Reality will be an even bigger part of Android N with DayDream
Google 2 years ago announced Google Cardboard VR and that had a big impact in mobile VR. The idea was simple, yet enough to give developers enough incentive to get VR moving on the mobile front. Android N will be taking things up a notch and Google are pushing a new VR initiative called DayDream. […]
New Android N beta begins now, auto updates now included
As expected, we’re getting more information regarding Andorid N during the Google I/O event. The new beta that is now avaialble for certain Nexus devices and is being called an incremental update (Update 3) to the previous available beta. A big addition however, is the inclusion of automated updates, whereas Android N can now download […]
Google announced new messaging app called Allo
Google are launching a new messaging app dubbed Allo. The service is all about including Google’s new Assistant inside an end to end encrpyted messaging app. The chat function has a few interesting gimmicks, but more interestingly, the app will allow chat participants to do a lot more while still inside the chat. This includes […]
Google Home announced, basically Google Now for your home
Google I/O has just started and Google Home was the first announcement out of the gate. As expected, Google Home is Google’s challenge to Amazon Echo. The device is aimed at brining Google Now to your home for the same functionally and more. Google Home includes a built in speaker for voice responds and music […]