Archos today announced the new Archos 50 Diamond 4G smartphone as the new top-of-the-line model in Archos' sub-$200 4G smartphone range. French company Archos has a long history with Android tablets and smartphones and 50 Diamond takes over from the Helium 50 as the Archos' flagship devices. Revealed at "Paris CES Unveiled", the new phone will run Android 4.4 KitKat out the box
Amazon has been building the Fire brand over the past few years, starting with tablets, moving to media players and streaming sticks, before most recently producing a smartphone. The Fire TV media player has been on-sale in the US for some time, but only came to the UK back in October. I've been playing with Fire.....TV for the past couple of
Being a geek can sometimes become pretty expensive. Different devices offer differing amounts of geek fun for the buck. Every car and pickup manufactured from 1996 forward has what is known as an OBD2 port. OBD is short for on board diagnostics. The OBD2 port was originally mandated as part of emission control efforts. There are plenty of consumer-oriented OBD2
Over the past year, I've noticed more and more people wearing activity tracking devices and here in Northern Ireland I tend to see Fitbits rather than anything else. Fitbit has been advertising on TV lately too with "It's All Fit" and I'm sure that there will be a good number of Zips, Flexes and Charges under the Christmas tree come
Just a quick one. If you are in the UK, there's £100 off a Motorola Moto X as a Cyber Monday discount. Registration opens at 8am on Monday morning and closes at noon on Tuesday, though Motorola suggests that it's "while stocks last". Successful registrants will be emailed a promo code to get £100 off devices through Moto Maker, though
From the level of press coverage, it's very easy to think that the only smartphones on the market have huge screens and price tags to match. If it's not an iPhone 6 Plus or Nexus 6, it's not worth talking about. Contrary to the column inches, there's a wide selection of phones that have smaller screens for less cash which
2014 seems to have been the year of the fitness tracker and there will be plenty nestling underneath the Christmas tree come 25th December. Huawei has joined the market with the TalkBand B1, a wrist-worn fitness and sleep tracker fused with a Bluetooth earpiece. You may think that this is a somewhat odd combination so let's take a look at the