Category Archives: Amazon

Anniversary Special – Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast – Please RT

As you know, I co-host a weekly podcast with David from UKMobileTech called Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast. It is a light hearted tech podcast broadcast bi-weekly. To subscribe click here for iTunes or copy and paste this link into your favourite podcast app.

Episode 25 is now live for your listening pleasure.

This is an Anniversary Special. So enjoy 🙂

Our photo contest. First up is Dave’s shot of his dog.

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Next is mine of the Merrivale Stones on Dartmoor.

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Neither shot has been edited. Both taken using an iPhone 6 Plus. So choose your winner!

Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast – Episode 24 is now live – Please RT

As you know, I co-host a weekly podcast with David from UKMobileTech called Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast. It is a light hearted tech podcast broadcast bi-weekly. To subscribe click here for iTunes or copy and paste this link into your favourite podcast app.

Episode 24 is now live for your listening pleasure.

Smartphone Flagship – decisions – views on LG G3, iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung Note 4

I have read raging written battles on several forums regarding the above phones. Note 4 fans are dissing the iPhone for its lack of specifications versus the iPhone and so on.

As you will be aware, I currently own the LG G3. It’s a superb piece of kit but omitting the specs per se for the moment, I’m going to try and be objective on what matters. And then I’m going to try and do the same for the other phones. What you will see hopefully is a difficult choice if you had to choose just one phone.

LG G3 – QHD screen. Text/Photos look great but not the best in bright sunlight. Also heat controls dim the screen. Qi charging only used at night. Charges on LG Qi stand which takes effort out of plugging lead in every night. LG infra red blaster. Watching TV or a DVD. Handy for basic controls as phone always next to me, but not necessarily remotes. Standard IR software includes DVD eject and close button. Useful as not working on DVD player and doesn’t exist on official DVD remote control. Camera. Redefines zero options. Full auto which works most times extremely well. The laser auto focus seems to create fast shot to shot times and quick first shots. Design – curved back and rear buttons make handling the 5.5 inch screen a breeze. Android so highly customisable. Using Nova Launcher with some super slick customisation. Runs Android. Google services and Google Now are brilliant. Decent apps. USB Host and mass storage. Can connect hard drives and cameras directly to phone and many more USB devices. Superb game controller support along with emulators. I have the 32gb/3gb version. Replaceable and user removable battery. Micro SD slot which takes up to 128gb micro sd cards. As this has been on the market for nearly 3 months it is the cheapest option by several hundred pounds.

iPhone 6 Plus – unrivalled design. Screen has better contrast and angles and better readability than LG G3 in sunlight. Super bright screen and natural looking colours. ios Eco system benefits. Handoff just works. The ability to be able to make calls on your iPhone or iPad and soon Mac and move from one to the other is simply awesome. Apple Pay is a simple solution to a big daily activity of buying items. Touch ID is the best finger print scanner. Camera. It’s a super fun and easy camera app. The software is highly optimised to take great shots and some of the standard features built in just allow for superb fun photos. The photos app offers excellent editing software. Going back to the Eco system. You have FaceTime, iMessage and all the other ios 8 tightly integrated features. For me, the iPhone feels great to use. It’s apps, Eco system and tightly integrated hardware and software make it a sum of greater parts. Less is more sometimes.

Samsung Note 4 – rumoured to have the best display. Relevance means readable in bright sunlight and drops down to really dark for night time reading. Ultra Power saving mode is really a life saver. Decent camera capable of taking more pro shots. The S Pen. Killer feature if you use the stylus. Again like the G3 is fully customisable as it runs android. Also has infra red remote control. Replaceable and removable battery a bonus. Micro sd card slot ideal. In essence it has similar features to the LG G3 , except it lacks as standard Qi charging and a fm radio.

Having examined these phones, they all offer a different user experience. One is not necessarily better than another.

Amazon launches new luxury e-reader the Voyage

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the Voyage looks like your standard e-reader. It’s small, rectangular and there’s a crisp, beautiful E Ink screen. The screen is flush with the bezel. The e-reader is made of magnesium with a chemically hardened front glass. Underneath the glass is a next-generation Paperwhite display that packs 300 pixels per inch in a 6-inch panel. The Voyage 7.6mm thick. Page turns can be triggered by a force press on the bezel which provide haptic feedback. X-ray features are improved. All this for $200.

So would you spend £200 on just an e-reader?

Source – amazon.com/engadget.com

Amazon expands its Kindle Tablet range

Via Reuters –

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc ramped up its push into hardware on Wednesday with the debut of six new or upgraded devices, including a high-end $199 e-reader called the Kindle Voyage and its cheapest-ever touch-screen tablet.

The No. 1 U.S. online retailer also revamped its basic Kindle e-reader to include a touch screen. It will cost $79, about 15 percent more than the current basic model.

Other new devices unveiled on Wednesday are a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet, which includes a smaller, six-inch screen as well as a tablet designed for kids that starts at $149. Amazon also upgraded its 7-inch and 8.9 inch Fire tablets.

Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast – Episode 23 is now Rocking – Please RT

As you know, I co-host a weekly podcast with David from UKMobileTech called Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast. It is a light hearted tech podcast broadcast bi-weekly. To subscribe click here for iTunes or copy and paste this link into your favourite podcast app.

Episode 23 is now live for your listening pleasure.

Share Prices tumble on Apple Watch and Fashion Magazines give Apple’s Watch a Thumbs Up

Apple revealed the Apple Watch yesterday.
Following this announcement watch companies shares have started to tumble.

Shares in Movado whose brands include Coach, Hugo Boss and Tommy Hlifiger: drop of 2pc.

Fossil who also make Armani, DKNY and Diesel watches : drop of 3pc.

Shares in Guess, which relies on watches for a good chunk of its sales, also fell.

Swatch, Kering and Richemont weren’t far behind. LVMH, the company behind Bulgari and TAG Heuer, their shares also took a hit.

Meanwhile Apple’s shares have risen 2pc.

However, if you really want a smart watch then you need one of these Casio G Shock Watches. Note the battery life is in years not a single day!

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Joking aside I really believe the new Apple Watch is a stroke of genius. The attention to detail is incredible and the customisation is perfect to make one your own.

A number of watch companies have been since interviewed and dismissed the Apple Watch as not of a concern to their market. Dangerous position to take since this is only first generation. Just step back and recall what Apple did to Nokia’s market share.

Update – Macrumors decided to read what the fashion press thought of Apple’s watch and the resounding feedback from every magazine except one was extremely positive.

Amazon Fire Phone – Fire Sale and now coming to the UK

It seems Amazon’s Fire phone has already hit a stumbling block and consequently is being offered for less than a dollar in the US with a 2 year contract.

And its also travelling overseas to O2 in the UK.

Being restricted to one network in the UK is not going to help with sales. It needs to be available on every network.

Source – cultofandroid.com