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You might also like: Galaxy A3 (2016) review | Galaxy A5 (2016) review | Galaxy A7 (2016) review Samsung Galaxy A3: Price & Availability The new Samsung Galaxy A3 is available to buy now priced at £279. Its bigger counterparts, the A5 and A7, are priced at £399 and £499 respectively. There are rivals available that come close to matching the specs and performance of the Galaxy A3 with a lower price tag, some of which we’ll talk about later in this review, but if you’re set on a Samsung phone we think this is a good option, particularly when you consider its good-looking design....

See also: Best smartphones: The best phone you can buy in 2014. Samsung Galaxy Alpha vs iPhone 5S: Price The Galaxy Alpha comes it at around £500 (which is more than the Galaxy S5 despite mostly downgraded specs). Nevertheless, that means it’s cheaper than the iPhone 5S which hasn’t got any cheaper since launching. It will set you back at least £549 for the most affordable model but goes up to £709....

You’ll also like: Samsung Galaxy S9 rumours and Samsung Galaxy S8 mini rumours The main camera on both models is the same sensor found in the S7 models, but both front facing cameras are upgraded, and placed alongside an infrared sensor for iris scanning capabilities. At last, the Arctic Silver version is coming – read more. A Rose Pink model has also been announced in Taiwan, but it’s doubtful that edition will make its way to the UK....

Now the Galaxy S7 was already a pretty decent phone – in fact Samsung has won the crown in our best smartphones chart for the past three years running. Is it too much to ask for the company to improve on an already good thing? Well, yes and no. Because the Galaxy S8 is a fantastic flagship, but it’s not flawless. It’s also facing stiff competition from more recent flagships....

It’s an unusual move from Samsung when the firm normally prefers unveiling new products on stage at big events packed with guests. However, the Unpacked seems to be reserved for just the Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Watch. Nevertheless, here’s the Galaxy Tab S4 which is a direct rival to Apple’s iOS tablets like the iPad Pro 10.5. Check out the latest news on the Galaxy Tab S5. When is the Galaxy Tab S4 release date?...

But there are inevitable compromises when it comes to design and picture performance. Design & Build The design of the TU8500 is probably best described as unpretentious. It’s not particularly slim, or pretty, although the bezel is certainly minimal. Stereo speakers fire downward from the chassis and the panel sits on a central splayed foot. Connectivity comprises three HDMI ports, one with an eARC ‘mode’, plus two USB ports, analogue video and stereo inputs for legacy gear....

Solid-state drive technology has transformed the computing experience for anyone that’s upgraded their computer from hard disk to SSD. What holds many other people back from experiencing that transformation remains the relatively high cost of SSDs. See our group test: What’s the best SSD? But prices had dropped considerably in the last two years, and with affordable flash drives like the SanDisk Extreme II we can now go flash for the magic figure of 50 pence per gigabyte....

But with so many companies producing cheap, reliable smart security cameras, is the £229 Somfy One a little too expensive to compete? Here’s our Somfy One review. Pricing and availability Before we get into the juicy details, let’s first discuss the pricing and availability of the Somfy One as it’s not exactly the cheapest smart security camera on the market. In fact, at £229 it’s one of the most expensive smart security cameras available in 2018 so it needs to offer some bang for its buck to make it worth the price....

Netflix has been investing a lot into various video game adaptations lately, with shows planned for Assassin’s Creed and The Witcher. But what we can expect from this brand new Sonic the Hedgehog show? We’ve rounded up everything you need to know. You can also check out the best TV shows and movies on Netflix right now. We also have a similar article for the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last AirBender on Netflix....

Sony KD-55X8505C review: Price You can get a 4K TV for under £500 nowadays but the Sony, as you might expect, will set you back a fair amount more than those budget options. The KD-55X8505C is £1,249 and while this exact model is a little hard to find from retailers you can pick up the very similar KD-55X8509CBU for £1,079 from John Lewis and and £1,199 from Currys. See also: Samsung UE48JU7000 review....

Price and Availability As expected the phones went on sale early April. You’ll pay £699 for the XZ2 and £529 for the Compact. Order Sony Xperia XZ2 It costs $799 in the US. Order Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact It costs $649 in the US. Also see: Sony Xperia XZ2 vs XZ1 Overview The differences between the two phones, apart from their size, are actually fairly small. Both phones are powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 845 processor that will be found in the majority of new android phones this year, and both contain 4GB of ram and 64GB onboard storage – with the option for a MicroSD....

The new model comes in at the same launch price, although upgrades are fairly limited. Here we compare them on price, design and specs in detail to help you choose which one to buy or whether to upgrade. Xperia XZ2 vs XZ3: Price and availability A rare thing in the tech world now, Sony has kept the price of the XZ3 the same as its predecessor. So that means it costs £699 – it’s $899 in the US....

StrongVPN is owned by Reliable Hosting, a US-based hosting provider, which is in the top tier of the ’14 eyes’ nations. That means that the company could be compelled to share user data with governments within the 14 countries, including the UK and US. The country count is one of the lowest at 24, with cities numbering just 46. In line with other VPN providers, the company does not log any traffic or use data, though its privacy policy says that it does comply with valid subpoena requests that “follow the letter of the law....

There are two physical components to the Microchip Cat Flap Connect: the cat flap itself and the glowing cat-eared Hub, which plugs into your home router so you can control the flap. You control the hub – and therefore the flap – using an Android or iOS app (or through a website if you’re on your computer). You can use the Microchip Cat Flap Connect without the Hub, but all you can do is train it to recognise your cats’ microchips – up to 32 in total, so ideal for the aspiring Eleanor Abernathy – so that it lets them in/out and not, for example, next door’s cats or the cute but thieving fox cubs that have been strolling through our garden....

We migrated the site from a country-level domain (.co.uk) to a global domain (.com) and, at the time, I noted that this was because we were no longer catering only to English-language visitors residing in the UK, but English-language visitors from all over the world. It also tied in neatly with a period of transformation within our parent company, IDG Communications – now Foundry – in which we were making plans to centralise our Consumer Editorial teams operating within the US, UK, Australia, France, Spain, Germany, Sweden and Poland....

These apps are especially useful if you also want to move Windows from one drive to another, as it’s impossible to copy Windows manually because of the various partitions involved. Cloning also means your Windows apps, settings and data will also be cloned to the new drive. In some cases, you can even put the new drive in a different computer with a different motherboard and everything should work perfectly....

Traditional point-and-click functionality on the Windows desktop will also change, to accommodate the needs of the new touch-centric interface. Once they get past the new Start screen and enter the traditional desktop interface, users will discover that the Start button is gone, and that key features such as the Control Panel and Search have moved to the new Charms bar, which pops from the right side of their display. Microsoft is changing the design of Windows to adapt the OS to our new multidevice world....

Game adaptations have a bit of a bum reputation in the film world – and mostly for good reason – but can Tomb Raider break the curse? Tomb Raider release date and tickets Tomb Raider is out now in both the UK and the US, after releasing on the 15th and 16th of March respectively. American readers can find the latest showing times on either Fandango or Movie Tickets, but if you’re in the UK you’ll have to check your cinemas manually: head to Cineworld, Vue, Odeon, or your other cinema of choice....

Compared to even other cheap laptops it is limited in performance by the low-power Intel Celeron processor and frugal 2 GB memory, the latter unable to be upgraded. But with the help of Microsoft’s free Windows 8.1 with Bing, the £200 price is keen. Its silent flash storage is a welcome choice, even if that’s a paltry 32 GB eMMC card, with less than half that size actually remaining after the OS, recovery partition and sponsored crapware – including Microsoft Office, CyberLink Media Player, Evernote, WinZip and McAfee – that together take up precious gigabytes of the tiny drive space....

This is the second Tronsmart Android TV box we’ve reviewed, having previously seen the Tronsmart Draco HW80. This one is not only cheaper, at £59.81 from Geekbuying.com, but there are several reasons why we prefer it. (Also see our advice on buying grey-market tech.) Tronsmart Pavo M9 review: Design and build The plastic Pavo M9 is surprisingly better-looking than the metal Draco HW80. A sleek black box with rounded corners, this smaller Tronsmart Android TV box omits the ugly antenna seen poking out of the Draco’s rear....