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By Hugh Langley If events like MWC 2015 have told me anything, it’s that smartphones have stopped getting smart. Better looking? Yes. Improved build quality? Sure. More powerful? Absolutely. But smarter? Not so much. It’s very much the same story with tablets, although Google is attempting to push things forward with its hugely ambitious Project…

By Henry Casey Overview and specs Modern computer companies, most notably Microsoft and Apple, sell us on their operating systems being as low maintenance as possible. This wasn’t always the case: back in the Windows 95 & 98 days, only a rookie wouldn’t defragment their hard drive regularly. As the years passed, protecting and maintaining…

By Henry Casey Overview and specs Modern computer companies, most notably Microsoft and Apple, sell us on their operating systems being as low maintenance as possible. This wasn’t always the case: back in the Windows 95 & 98 days, only a rookie wouldn’t defragment their hard drive regularly. As the years passed, protecting and maintaining…

By John McCann The Archos 94 Magnus may look like just another run of the mill Android tablet, but beneath its 9.4-inch display lies a hidden secret. 256GB of internal storage. It’s harnesses Archos’ new technology, Fusion Storage, to achieve such as large amount of internal space What’s more the 94 Magnus also sports a…

By John McCann The Archos 94 Magnus may look like just another run of the mill Android tablet, but beneath its 9.4-inch display lies a hidden secret. 256GB of internal storage. It’s harnesses Archos’ new technology, Fusion Storage, to achieve such as large amount of internal space What’s more the 94 Magnus also sports a…

By Dave James There’s little doubt that were you to purchase this wee box of gaming joy from XMG, you’d be as happy as a badger at a barbecue pulling the Prime from its box. It’s a quality gaming PC all the way from components to build to performance; but then it really ought to…

By John McCann No need to pinch yourself, you’re reading that right, a Nokia Android tablet that’s actually rather good. The Nokia N1 launched last year in China, and sightings of the Finnish firm’s Android slate have been hard to come buy outside of the country, but at MWC 2015 I managed to clasp my…

By John McCann No need to pinch yourself, you’re reading that right, a Nokia Android tablet that’s actually rather good. The Nokia N1 launched last year in China, and sightings of the Finnish firm’s Android slate have been hard to come buy outside of the country, but at MWC 2015 I managed to clasp my…

By Alan Stevens Introduction and design Marketed as a medium-sized business solution, the 8-bay DiskStation DS2015xs from Synology is a very scalable NAS appliance which, when teamed with an optional 12-bay expansion unit, has an impressive raw capacity of 120TB. It also stands out due to its ARM-based quad-core processor which, although unusual on this…

By Alan Stevens Introduction and design Marketed as a medium-sized business solution, the 8-bay DiskStation DS2015xs from Synology is a very scalable NAS appliance which, when teamed with an optional 12-bay expansion unit, has an impressive raw capacity of 120TB. It also stands out due to its ARM-based quad-core processor which, although unusual on this…

By James Peckham Microsoft had a surprise accessory reveal during its conference at MWC and I got the chance to have some hands-on time with it. The Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard, possibly the catchiest accessory name on the planet, is a new Surface-like Bluetooth accessory that connects up to your phone or tablet for an…

By James Peckham Microsoft had a surprise accessory reveal during its conference at MWC and I got the chance to have some hands-on time with it. The Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard, possibly the catchiest accessory name on the planet, is a new Surface-like Bluetooth accessory that connects up to your phone or tablet for an…

By Gareth Beavis If Android tablets are to have a shot at taking on the iPad, Sony’s new challenger is the kind of thing they need. The tablet market suddenly seems like a very different place since Sony last launched a 10-inch tablet. Where then the Xperia Z2 Tablet was a credible threat to the…

By Gareth Beavis If Android tablets are to have a shot at taking on the iPad, Sony’s new challenger is the kind of thing they need. The tablet market suddenly seems like a very different place since Sony last launched a 10-inch tablet. Where then the Xperia Z2 Tablet was a credible threat to the…

By Dave James As there are no reference versions of the new GTX 960, it’s all up to the manufacturers just how far they go with their cards. Nvidia has put out its own guidelines for base and boost clocks, but that’s all they are. Because of that, the GTX 960 has spawned a glut…