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In terms of dimensions, we’re looking at 153 x 72 x 11.1mm for the Sony Xperia XZ2, where the iPhone X comes in a little thinner at 143.6 x 71 x 7.7mm – although both feel comfortable in the hand. The iPhone is nearly 50% more than the Sony Xperia XZ2, with the former costing £1000 ($1,000 / AU$1,579) and the latter £699 (around $975 / AU$1250) at launch. However, we know the iPhone X can take brilliant pictures, where we’ve not had enough time with the Sony Xperia XZ2 to really assess its abili

MoltenVK is essentially a layer that sits on top of Metal, effectively translating and allowing Vulkan games to work seamlessly with Apple’s graphics framework. In case you’ve forgotten, Vulkan was introduced three years back by the Khronos Group as a cross-platform and low-overhead API (application programming interface). Any boost at all is welcome, of course, and there’s another strength here: because Vulkan is a cross-platform API, developers can make games that run across Windows, Linux, an

The Samsung Galaxy S9 is, basically, the same phone as the Galaxy S8 in terms of design. PriceThe cost of the Sony Xperia XZ2 is a little lower than the Samsung – although not by a huge amount. You’re still going to be spending a lot of money on either phone, but the Galaxy S9 costs £739/ $719.99 (about AU$1310), where the Sony Xperia XZ2 comes in at £699 / (around $975 / AU$1250). The Samsung Galaxy S9 has a 5.8-inch display, where Sony has a 5.7-inch option, but both offer the longer 18:9 aspe

This year’s MWC has seen lots of weird, wonderful and downright awesome tech announced, from the Samsung Galaxy S9 , all the way through to the return of the Nokia 8110 that you’ll probably remember from The Matrix back in 1999. We’re getting ready to hand out the TechRadar MWC Awards for 2018, and we need your help for one special trophy. We want you to have your say, so you can vote for your favorite announcement of the show. A range of products from brands like Samsung, Nokia, Sony and Huawei

Asus has done just that with its ZenFone Max Plus M1, which not only debuted today at MWC 2018, but is now available in the US for $229 (about £164, AU$291) in Azure Silver and Deepsea Black colors. A mid-range contenderAsus’ smartphone efforts of late have stepped up to consumer demands for cleaner design, both inside and out. The ZenFone Max Plus M1 could be a competent camera phone, too, with a dual-lens setup on the rear that can shoot low-light photos at f/2.0 aperture and wide-angle photos

Jolla may have failed to make an empire to rival Android with its Sailfish OS, but it’s changing direction with Sailfish 3 to focus on 4G feature phones. Four years ago we previewed the original Sailfish OS. Jolla announced upcoming Sailfish support for some devices you may not have heard of, including the Gemini PDA, INOI T8 and INOI T10. Sailfish X is a version of the OS already available for the Sony Xperia X, at 49.90 euros (around £43 / $60 / AU $77). Sailfish X was released in September 20

Its PC optimization toolkit really does make a difference; whenever we’ve tested System Mechanic we’ve found a significant speed improvement, especially at startup. The genuine performance boost we saw after running System Mechanic made it our favorite system optimization tool. Read on for four more of the best apps around for speeding up your Windows PC. (In case you’re wondering, Ashampoo takes its name from this optimization software, which cleans your PC ‘like a shampoo’.) This free PC optim

Samsung says the new Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8 will have McAfee VirusScan pre-installed to provide protection from malware, along with Samsung’s Secure Wi-Fi service. The latter is the aforementioned VPN offering built on McAfee’s backend infrastructure, which encrypts your traffic when using unprotected and potentially insecure public Wi-Fi. Secure Wi-Fi is already pre-installed on the Note 8 in the US, and this offering is now coming to Europe. If you’re a Galaxy Note 8 owner, you’ll be able

Canon has released a new flash that claims to use artificial intelligence to give you the perfect bounce flash by measuring the space between the camera, the subject, and objects that it can bounce flash off to get the perfect lighting. Canon’s Speedlite 470EX-AI does a test flash, and then based on the bounce automatically adjusts the angle of the flash head in order to deliver perfect lighting for your shot. With a 180-degree range of motion left to right, and a 120-degree range of motion up a

Rumor has it that Nvidia will launch its next generation of GeForce graphics cards at GTC 2018, the firm’s GPU Technology Conference, which kicks off on March 26, just a month from today. The site believes the cards will be available as soon as April or May, and claims that the new GeForce products will be built on refreshed Ampere architecture, which should (obviously) offer boosted performance and better power efficiency compared to Pascal GPUs (Nvidia’s current GeForce 10 series). This backs

Apple is dropping iTunes Store support for Windows XP and Vista, hammering one more nail into the elderly operating systems’ coffins. XP and Vista users can keep running older versions on iTunes, but won’t be able to upgrade or receive support from Apple. Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows XP back in 2009, but continued to offer regular security updates until 2014. Windows Vista only holds a tiny fraction of the market, but XP is still the third most popular desktop operating system

Location lighting typically requires a bag full of stands and supports, reflective umbrellas, soft boxes and much more. This is before you consider cumbersome battery packs and flash heads that require Arnie-esque arms to lug around. Cactus thinks there’s an easier way and its latest RQ250 bare-bulb wireless monolight (due for release this summer) boasts a high output portable flash with consistent light quality for location shooting that fits in the palm of your hand. Or, remove the reflector a

When a smartphone is released under the Energizer brand, you know what it’s going to focus on: the battery. And that’s exactly what the Energizer Hardcase H590S from Avenir Telecom does. Of course, you can’t sell a smartphone on battery alone and Avenir Telecom has managed to surround that mammoth battery with a seriously sturdy casing. These are the best ruggedised smartphones of 2018Battery powerThe Energizer Hardcase H590S has a 5.9-inch HD 18:9 ratio screen surrounded by a shock- and waterpr

Apple has announced a collective discount of Rs 30,000 on a purchase of a new iPhone X at Apple Premium Resellers. Users can avail a minimum buyback discount of Rs 20,000 on their smartphones. Apple is selling the iPhone X 64GB for Rs 95,390. So technically, a Galaxy Note 8 256GB user can buy the iPhone X at Rs 31,665. Moreover, the company is being generous to offer a ‘Free Screen Replacement’ for six months on the iPhone X, with reward points on iCircle.

During the MWC 2018 festivities, Lenovo took the opportunity to unveil three new 2-in-1 laptops set to launch later this year: the Lenovo Yoga 730 in 13.3- and- 15.6-inch varieties and a fresh Flex 14 (known as Yoga 530 outside the US). Storage and graphics options are where the laptops begin to differ, with the 13-inch Yoga 730 supporting up to 512GB of solid-state drive (SSD) storage and the 15-inch as much as 1TB of SSD space. Both versions of the Yoga 730 come housed in either an ‘Iron Grey’

The Lenovo 500e is the latest convertible Chromebook to feature a built-in stylus, third only to the Samsung Chromebook Pro and Plus. Lenovo claims writing on its 11-inch Chromebook hybrid features will feel as incredibly natural and lag-free as a real pen. Despite the fancy stylus features, the Lenovo 500e is designed to be affordable as any other Chromebook and it’s available now starting at $349 (about £250, AU$440). Instead, this Chromebook gains Lenovo’s patented Enhanced Touch system, an e

What are the differences between the Xperia XZ2 and the XZ2 Compact? The first is to the materials used to make these: the Sony Xperia XZ2 is clad in 3D Gorilla Glass front and back, where the XZ2 Compact is using polycarbonate to ‘diffuse’ the light. The larger model is 198g, but you can shave off 30g and get the 168g version if you go for the smaller XZ2 Compact. That’s available on the Sony Xperia XZ2, but because the Compact is, well, more compact there’s less room for that feature. BatteryT

The Sony Xperia XZ2 is a dynamic reboot from a brand looking to bring itself back into the mix for high-end smartphones consumers are desperate to buy. Here’s everything you need to know about the new Sony Xperia XZ2 – could it be your new smartphone? For the Sony Xperia XZ2 release date, we’re going to see the phone available from the first week of April in Europe, with the rest of the world still to be decided. Sony Xperia XZ2 CameraThere’s a lot to explain with the Sony camera, so let’s dive

Sony’s latest flagship, the Xperia XZ2, wasn’t the only handset the company revealed today at MWC 2018 — the electronics giant also lifted the veil on its Xperia XZ1 Compact successor, aptly named the Xperia XZ2 Compact. Boasting big features on a small polycarbonate and metal-reinforced frame, the XZ2 Compact includes an HDR-ready 5-inch Full HD+ extended display (the exact aspect ratio is currently unknown) and will run Android 8.0 Oreo right of the box. Sorry cord fans — like the Xperia XZ2,