…Assistant and Alexa Disney+, Stan, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Apple TV+, Foxtel, BINGE, Kayo and Optus Sport, Digital TV stations and many more Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos (OLED and Mini-LED except for QNED80) At least one fully featured HDMI 2.1 eARC port Good – 4K UHD and NanoCell available from…
…phone call comes in, the bud’s touch changes to accept or reject the call on either ear. Bluetooth codecs – Exceed As this uses a Qualcomm Bluetooth chipset, it includes SBC (standard), Apple (AAC), aptX (compresses and uncompresses the data stream on the fly, so it provides more bandwidth for…
…buy the charger in – FAIL. Apple said most would have a charger. Well, until iPhone 12 and 13, Apple chargers were 5V/1A/5W or fast charge (an oxymoron) 5V/1.5A/7.5W. These also use the USB-A to USB-C 2W cable with a minuscule 480Mbps data transfer rate – your granny can walk…
…should buy the Surface Laptop Studio? Of the 267 user reviews, the overwhelming majority were 5-star, with a few Apple Fan persons attacking anything Microsoft. The user experience has been outstanding. It is damned expensive – over $4,000 for the review model with i7/32GB/1TB, but looking at the competition like…
There are two leading contenders for smart assistants – Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. This guide presents the relative strengths/weaknesses, why or if you need one, privacy implications, and ecosystem suitability. We are not looking at Samsung’s Bixby/SmartThings, LG’s ThinQ, Apple’s Siri/HomeKit or Microsoft Cortana – these are more device-specific…
Google has released the Switch to Android app that seamlessly transfers Apple iPhone photos, videos, contacts, messages, music, call logs and calendar events to an Android device. It can even install any free Android Apple-equivalent apps as well. The app has appeared on the US Apple Store. You can transfer…
…the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. More Cybershack Amazon news and reviews First impression – the mother of all smart speaker displays 15.6” screen in a picture frame measuring 401.3 x 251 x 35.5 (W/H/D) x 2.215kg. It is pretty…
…typical use), and Accubattery gives it 18+ hours of typical use. Both the Pro and the X5 come with 80W SUPERVOOC chargers (take that Apple and Samsung), and the X5 supports 30W AIRVOOC versus 60W for the Pro. The only issue is that you need to use the 80W charger,…
…in-app purchases that you must have. Microsloth Microsoft wants everyone to use their Metaware to access the Metaverse, for a small monthly fee, of course. Office 365 will become Out-of-Office 3-out-of-5. Gaggle Google will subtly interweave carefully curated advertisements into the virtual fabric. Crapple Apple will reject the Metaverse. Instead,…
…penetration, but the Fold and Flip 3 made up for that. Apple #2 Apple has about 46% of the market, leaving Android at 54%. Interestingly Apple’s market share involves a lot of superseded iPhone 11, 12 and refurbs. OPPO et al. #3 OPPO, vivo, and realme (BBK siblings) all sell…
Last year Google announced it would move user log-ins to Google Account, Gmail, YouTube and Google Home to automatic two-step verification (2SV). This is to protect you – it is not as onerous as some claim. All major apps/companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon etc., are moving to mandatory…
…for an advanced speaker and second for the premium class speaker (Bowers and Wilkins Formation Wedge at $1300 was top with 160 points). LG XBoom RP4 was 15th with 135 points. The Apple Home Pod scores 113 and the mini 98 – not as good as Apple reviewers state. Even…