We’re big fans of Rock Jaw’s sub-£50 headphones, especially the Alfa Genus with its interchangeable filters. Here’s our review of the enthusiast-level Kommand Hybrid IEM. See also: best headphones of 2015 Anyone who knows anything about headphones can tell you the difference between balanced armature and dynamic drivers. Typically headphones use one or the other but not both. Each has its pros and cons, with balanced armature delivering excellent detail and clarity for high frequencies and dynamic drivers offering better bass and warmth for mid-tones....

Who deleted me on Facebook: What is SadlyUnfriended? SadlyUnfirended.com is a website that has been around until April 2015. It went then offline due to Facebook’s changes in its policy. Many apps such as Who Deleted Me have been prevented to access Facebook lists of friends and had to go offline. Recently, Sadly Unfriended has come back. With a new method to perform checks, authorised by Facebook, new features and design, Sadly Unfriended is growing in popularity....

To see our first-impressions also take a look at our Samsung Galaxy A9 hands-on review. Price and Availability At the time of writing there’s no specific release date for the A9, but Samsung states that it will be available mid-November. The UK price is set at £549 for the solitary 128GB model, but how much US customers will have to pay is still to be revealed. The price is a step up from the Galaxy A8, which was around £100 cheaper, but the new features could make this easily justifiable....

We’re aware that the Gear Sport was a more recent launch from Samsung, but the smartwatch isn’t as much of a direct rival to the Galaxy Watch so we’re focussing on the Gear S3 here. You can also see how it compares to the Apple Watch Series 3 over on Macworld. Galaxy Watch vs Gear S3: Price and availability There’s good news as the Galaxy Watch is cheaper than the Gear S3, starting at a reasonable £279/$329 for the 42mm model....

£65 may not be enough to get you a top performer. But for that price you can expect a product that isn’t ferociously cutting corners in every department. Indeed, in terms of figures, a product like the R7 250X seems to offer a bounty of primped and primed specs, effortlessly batting away even the similarly-priced Asus GeForce GT 740 OC. As with the 740, the RAM is of the GDDR5 variety, so it has the technology to make the most of some enhanced clock speeds....

And don’t forget: Mother’s Day is coming up. Ordinarily, the kettles and four-slice toasters cost £79.99. We’ve found them for £59.99 in every style. Toast & Marmalade The matching four-slice toaster is also available for £59.99, down from £79.99. It has three toasting settings, as well as cancel, defrost and reheat functions. Polka Dots You can also find discounts on the Polka Dots range. To get £20 off the kettle, head over to Currys PC World where it’s available for £59....

Sennheiser’s HD 429 budget over-ear headphones offer fantastic value at £45, looking, feeling and sounding the part. Find out why these cheap headphones win our Best Buy award in our Sennheiser HD 429 review. Also see: 6 best budget headphones Compared to the AKG K77 cheap over-ear headphones, the sub-£50 Sennheiser HD 429s look the part. Finished in posh-looking black plastic with faux-leather earcups and headband cushion, these over-ear headphones deliver the kind of aesthetic that style-conscious audiophiles will be looking for....

What is the Sky Soundbox? Getting cinema level sound in your own home can mean spending thousands of pounds, running cables everywhere and complicated setup. The Soundbox cuts all of this out with a single box solution. The elegant speaker has been designed and crafted by Devialet, a premium audio brand known for incredible products. It’s compact so will fit neatly into your living room and you don’t need to be an audiophile to set it up....

The Xperia 1 IV officially went on sale here in the UK last week, and not one but two of us have gotten samples to test out. Henry and Dom have both been putting Sony’s flagship through its paces over the past week, and are ready to decide if Sony has nailed it this year, or produced another flagship that only a fanboy could love. Meanwhile Poco has been busy, unveiling both the F4 and the X4 GT today....

Sony’s newest phones have lots of similarities, especially in design (they resemble most Xperia phones). The XZ1 Compact is, of course, a smaller version of Sony’s newest flagship. The XZ1 measures at 148 x 73.4 x 7.4 mm while the XZ1 compact is at 129 x 64 x 9.3 mm, considerably smaller. The Compact is also a little thicker, but, because of its size, remains lighter in weight (155g to 140g)....

Price Sony’s Xperia XZ2 costs £699 and is available to order now, with those who act fast able to pick up a free PS4, PlayStation VR or Sony WF-1000X headphones. It costs $799 in the US. The iPhone 8 costs an identical £699/ US$699 for the base model, and the iPhone 8 Plus £799/ US$799, again for the base model. Features & design Apple stuck with the existing design for the iPhone 8, but switched to a glass back to allow for wireless charging....

Also see: Best Black Friday Speaker Deals Sumvision Psyc Monic Bluetooth speaker review: Build quality & design Within the packaging you’ll find the speaker, a 3.5mm interconnect cable, a Micro-USB to USB cable used for charging and a manual. The Monic is powered by two 10 Watt drivers which are housed within the elegantly placed within the speaker’s full-metal housing. At the front of the speaker there is a ‘psyc’ logo written on the grill, whilst at the top of the speaker there are two rectangular-shaped buttons used to control certain aspects of your speaker....

The Surface Pro 4 is the new model, but we’ll compare the iPad Pro with this and with the older Surface Pro 3.We’ve also compared the Surface Pro 3 vs Surface Pro 4. Update 29 March 2016: Apple has now added a new iPad Pro to the range. It shares the name, but has a smaller 9.7in screen. You can read more about it in our i Pad Pro 9....

Here are the best iPhone 7 cases and the best iPhone 7 Plus cases we’ve seen so far. Keep the back and sides of your iPhone 7 safe with the two layers of protection provided by the Caseology Envoy. Made with a layer of TPU and a layer of polycarbonate, this case offers a sturdy fit with a carbon fibre design that is nice and grippy. For a slick, sophisticated leather folio look no further than this one from Greenwich....

The bad news is that its lack of popularity means only a few VPN providers actually offer dedicated software clients for Linux. If you don’t opt for one of them you’ll be stuck fiddling around in the system console (not that that’s anything new to Linux users, of course…). With that in mind we’ve rounded up the best VPNs for Linux with a dedicated app, along with a few that don’t....

This price is lower than any discount we’ve seen over Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In fact, it’s the lowest price we’ve seen since late July of this year, when it was £197. While the current price is £2 more than that last drastic dip, the present deal still shaves £81 off the highly rated smartwatch (we gave it 4 stars out of 5 – here’s why). If you just want to see Fitbit deals though, we have a dedicated round up for that too, with expert buying advice....

The misconception that Macs are completely safe from online threats has been put to the test recently, as cybercriminals have focused on not only delivering spying and surveillance tools to them, but also on infecting them with ransomware. Ransomware for Mac If ransomware has been a nuisance for Windows machines for the past couple of years, Mac users were skeptical that it could also happen to them. Although security researchers published a proof-of-concept that ransomware could be real, it was spotted in the wild only a couple of months later....

Teased as far back as 2016, a OnePlus-made smartwatch has long-intrigued the company’s followers and while the genuine article has taken a while to manifest, the end result looks like a promising entry that stays true to the typical performance and value balance that resides within the OnePlus’ other products. Just as the numerous leaks revealed in the run-up to the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro launch on 23 March – where the Watch was also introduced – the company’s technological timepiece opts for a circular display, which comes complete with 2....

Despite leaking ahead of time, Qualcomm officially pulled the wraps off the Snapdragon 780G on 25 March. Alongside an integrated 5G modem – one of the big advantages that the 765G lorded over the 865 and 865+ last year – the biggest selling points for OEMs are the 780G’s Spectra 570 triple ISP (image signal processor) and Hexagon 770 processor, dedicated to powering through AI-based tasks. The benefit of a triple ISP setup is that the 780G can handle multiple camera sensor inputs simultaneously (for example, 25Mp stills from a phone’s main, zoom and ultrawide cameras at the same time), as well as improving low-light performance, and facilitating HDR10+-compatible and 4K HDR video capture....

Crowdfunding is quietly changing the world. Websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are enabling inventors, artists, and developers a way to fund their projects that up until now was almost impossible. The secret resides in the simple idea of giving creators a chance to pitch to their intended audience rather than to the CEOs of large corporations. Traditionally if you wanted your product made you needed to raise the capital to build it yourself, usually achieved by securing funds from investors....