OPPO Reno 10x review
Posted on 27-Aug-2019 19:58
We are talking about the latest OPPO smartphone, the next in a series of devices the company have been creating that pushes the boundaries of photography and performance....
Sony HT-X8500 soundbar review
Posted on 8-Jul-2019 16:48
Nothing can be more disappointing to home entertainment users than bad sound. With few exceptions (mostly on the high-end and cost side) most TV sets have very poor sound when compared to their screen quality (the Sony A1 TVs with their on-screen speakers is one of the top TVs in this respect). So I was quite happy to try the new Sony HT-X8500 soundbar with my poor sound quality TV....
Harman Kardon Allure Portable review
Posted on 17-May-2019 11:59
Voice-activated digital assistant speakers are a more common sight around the house - and a growing market every day. Since my visite to Microsoft's house of the future in Seattle, back in the mid-2000s, I imagined living in a fully digital house, one that you control with your voice and managed through your smart devices....
This week we discuss killing the steering wheel in future cars, Australia vs online extremism, US customs vs social media, NZ's Spidertracks, robot taxi dissatisfaction for Waymo heading in the right direction, Ex-Uber engineer Levandowski charged in the US, Huawei Mate 30 to launch under cloud ...
I've had a life-long fascination with news.
When I was a kid, totally blind since birth and before the Internet was a thing, I was fortunate to have three older sighted siblings who would read the newspaper to me. We grew up in Auckland, so The New Zealand Herald has played a big part in my life...
This week Paul Spain chats with Justin Tomlinson who shares the inside word on Sky TV's Parnell Skunkworks. We also discuss iCloud web update beta, Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage Tuia 250 privacy breach and identification storage challenges, Wearables market >$10b, a...
Amazon Echo devices come with different voices depending on where they were purchased from. If you bought your device from amazon.com then it will come configured with the standard US Alexa voice. If you bought it from a local store in New Zealand then it will likely be pre-configured to use Alexa...
In what must rank as one of the most poorly researched mainstream news stories in recent times, Newshub last night told us on their 6pm news that Vodafone's soon to launch 5G network could cause problems for NIWA (New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) who might not be a...
This week on the NZ Tech Podcast we discuss Parliament dumping the .govt domain on their website, lithium charger vs Virgin Atlantic flight, D-Link's 10-years of security audits, US Customs surveillance contractor dumping, Agent Smith malware vs 25m Android devices, Huawei waiting game, Facebook...
Vodafone New Zealand have announced that from the 11th July 2019 they are raising the price of their popular $5 Daily Roaming option from $5 per day to $7 per day, a 40% increase.Unlike roaming packages with other providers, the $5 charge is not a package or plan as such, but merely an arbitary dail...
Facebook Portal to land in New Zealand
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