Canon has certainly made the EOS 6D Mark II a more well-rounded and better specified camera than the EOS 6D, but it’s not without its issues. We’ve been waiting quite a while for the Canon EOS 6D Mark II to arrive. So does the arrival of the EOS 6D Mark II shift the advantage back to Canon in the contest to attract those looking to make the switch to full-frame photography? Perhaps the headline change is the new sensor, with the EOS 6D Mark II sporting a 26.2MP CMOS sensor that not only offers a

Now, just over a year after the Oculus Rift’s consumer headset released, virtual reality has its Super Mario 64 moment, and its name is Lone Echo. The zero-G dreamOculus Rift exclusive Lone Echo is not the first VR game to put you in space – a number of spaceship fighter sims have already attempted it, as did the stomach-turning space disaster astronaut adventure Adrift. But Lone Echo is the first one to get it so very right. Beyond the groundbreaking, Lone Echo pulls off the ‘everyday’ of gamin

It’s worth updating your phone’s operating system as soon as you can. Many top-of-the-line handsets have been found to have a vulnerability that potentially leaves them exposed to a malware attack. The vulnerability (dubbed Broadpwn) affects the Wi-Fi chips on iPhones, Samsung Galaxy and Google Nexus devices. The vulnerability was discovered by Nitay Artenstein, a researcher presenting at the Black Hat information security conference in Las Vegas. The implications of this are fairly obvious, as

Earlier this week we saw images and a partial specs list for the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, and now a new leak seems to have filled in all the gaps. What’s really interesting is the leak points to a phone that’s every bit as high-end as the standard Samsung Galaxy S8, and in some ways even better. Those specs are basically identical to those of the Galaxy S8, but there are some key differences. As reported before, the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active apparently has a 4,000mAh battery (complete with fast

We expect the Huawei Mate 10 to launch before the end of the year, and now the firm’s CEO has given us some insight into what we can expect from its next phablet flagship. Speaking to Bloomberg, Huawei CEO Richard Yu confirmed the Mate 10 name and went on to say that the phone will more powerful than the upcoming iPhone – which is due to be announced in September itself. The current top phone in Apple’s arsenal for example, the iPhone 7 Plus, has a 2.34GHz quad-core A10 chip and 3GB of RAM. It m

We’re expecting at least one more high-end Sony phone this year, possibly called the Sony Xperia XZ 2 or Xperia XZ1, and such a phone has seemingly just popped up on a popular benchmarking site. That’s a high-end configuration, rivaling the likes of the Moto Z2 Force and HTC U11, so this is presumably a flagship phone. Smartphone sequelAll of which makes it sound like the Sony G8341 could be a successor to the Sony Xperia XZ and Sony Xperia XZs, both of which use the older Snapdragon 820 chipset

Amazon has launched a new service called Hub, which is a locker system that allows delivery people to drop off parcels for you even when you aren’t home. You put the code into The Hub and your locker panel will open revealing your delivery. What is interesting about the new service is that Amazon is allowing the locker to be used by any delivery service. There are indoor and outdoor versions of Hub, with the outdoor version sitting at a hefty seven foot three inches tall. Check out our Amazon Ec

The future of mobile technologies inches ever closer as Apple received the go-ahead to test out 5G wireless broadband connectivity. Granted by the FCC just a few months after applying for a license, Apple has been granted permission to conduct trials with 5G millimeter wave technology on 28 GHz and 39 GHz frequency bands, according to DSLReports. Putting the mobile cart before the 5G horseOf course, 5G as a wireless standard is still a work in progress, with experts generally agreeing that the n

Augmented reality has been touted as revolutionizing everything from shopping to surgery, but let’s not forget how delightful overlaying the digital onto the real can be from a pure entertainment perspective. Chip Sineni of Trixi Studios, a VR/AR content house, has taken the iconic “Take On Me” music video from the 1980s and turned it into an augmented reality application for Apple’s ARKit. As a refresher, ARKit is an augmented reality framework within iOS 11 that lets developers create AR apps

Fans of listening to tunes in tiny vessels are in for some bad news, as Apple is discontinuing the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle and removing the devices from its brick-and-mortar and digital stores. “Today, we are simplifying our iPod lineup with two models of iPod Touch, now with double the capacity, starting at just $199, and we are discontinuing the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano,” Apple said in a statement to Bloomberg. Here’s what we know about the iPhone 8Shuffled awayA staple for joggers, party

Fitbit and Microsoft’s Cortana are teaming up to make both fetching and feeding fitness-related commands much easier. After linking up the Fitbit app with Cortana on your Windows 10 PC, or on your iOS or Android device, Microsoft’s personal assistant immediately knows everything about you. For example, saying “Hey Cortana, Tell Fitbit to log I had a pot roast for lunch” is much faster than clicking around. “Hey Cortana, Ask Fitbit to log I drank 12 ounces of water” isn’t a natural sentence, thou

Could you, off the top of your head, name the differences between Google Play Music, YouTube Red and YouTube Music? The person in question is Lyor Cohen, Google’s emissary to the larger music world, and his problem with Google’s music streaming services is that they’re just too similar. Music streaming harder, better, faster, strongerA single combined service would fix a few issues the services have in their current state. See, the way things are now, a subscription to YouTube Red gets you a sub

We think we’ve worked out most of them, but some digging has yielded a nugget of good news for the Motorola fans:”The Moto Z2 Force surpasses all of the requirements to pass Daydream certification,” a spokesperson told TechRadar. “We have tested it ourselves for compatibility, and now that the product is officially announced we will be working with Google on the formal certification.” One can only (day) dreamThe Moto Z2 Force should be a shoo-in for being Daydream capable, as not only does it ha

More than most other wearablesThere aren’t any release date rumors yet, but the Samsung Gear S3 was announced in August 2016, and the Samsung Gear S2 was announced in August of the year before that, so an August 2017 announcement for the Samsung Gear S4 is likely. Samsung Gear S4 news and rumorsThere aren’t many Samsung Gear S4 rumors yet, but a few have started to emerge, including a patent spotted by Russian site 3Dnews, which talks about a camera with an optical zoom, that oddly seems to be b

Straight from Google CEO Sundar Pichai himself, there will supposedly be 11 Google Daydream -compatible smartphones available by the end of 2017. Given that six of these phones have already been released ( Google Pixel , Google Pixel XL , Moto Z , Huawei Mate 9 Pro, ZTE Axon 7 and Asus ZenFone AR ), that leaves room for five more devices. As we heard at Google IO 2017, the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus will soon be added to that list. It comes down to threeFollowing the trail of r

Samsung Pay, the Korean company’s contactless payment service, might soon be heading to non-Samsung devices in the near future. Gadgets 360 spoke with sources familiar with the inner-workings of Samsung Pay who claimed it’s in talks with other high-end smartphone manufacturers, but there’s a big mountain to climb if it really comes to fruition. NFC functionality is common in today’s smartphones, but MST (magnetic secure transmission) is currently unique to Samsung phones. If Samsung Pay is to ar

It’s just a few short days now until the official reveal of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, and we’ve had another benchmark leak – this time from a ‘sort of’ official source – plus some potentially alarming news on pricing. – but three benchmarks are listed, two of them for a RX Vega card clocked at 1,630MHz, and the other running at 1,536MHz. We’ve heard before that the consumer version of Vega will be targeted at the GTX 1080 in terms of performance, and this benchmarking certainly bears

Once logged into a Facebook profile, you’re able to create an avatar that’s then tied to your Facebook Spaces account. Though Facebook Spaces takes a simple approach at the moment, it’s one that has the potential to be successful because of this simplicity. This idea of making people feel like VR is for them extends to allowing them to access Facebook Spaces without the need for a VR headset at all. Facebook Spaces gives an insight into the fun without requiring that you test a headset out for y

But engineers at Disney Research have come up with what they say is an alternative that allows groups to enjoy AR together. But not just any bench – a “Magic Bench”. The computer augments that image with computer-generated characters or objects, then the screen displays all that to the people sitting on the bench. “It creates a stage with a foreground and a background, with the seated participants in the middle ground. It even serves as a controller; the mixed reality experience doesn’t begin un

GoPro has just updated launched a new pair of GoPro and QuikStories app that automatically transfers your GoPro photos and video clips to your smartphone while the latter transforms them into a ready-to-share videos. This gesture will prompt the app to generate a polished video complete with automated edits with effects, transitions and music. GoPro’s algorithm seems much better tuned than DJI’s app, which we used while reviewing the DJI Spark. The GoPro app can also be told to pull non-GoPro fo