Budget Bluetooth Headsets – An Update
Bluetooth has been very slow to achieve its promised potential. The concept was for a low-cost standard to be a wireless equivalent to a serial cable as a way to connect devices together. A Bluetooth …
Cellphones & Wireless
Weekly Roundup, February 4, 2022
372 Supporters (unchanged from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning I mention in Thursday’s Covid diary entry that the twice-weekly Covid articles are drawing to a close. After two …
Weekly Roundup, January 21, 2022
371 Supporters (+2 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning And, perhaps, yes, it is a good morning, in a relatively-speaking sense. The US has now enjoyed seven days …
A Look at CES 2022
I’ve been attending the annual, every-early-January, Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, on and off, for over 30 years. This year’s show has been the strangest, and least impactful, of them all. Last year’s show …
Weekly Roundup, January 14, 2022
369 Supporters (unchanged from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning We’re halfway through January already, and typing “2022” no longer feels quite so unnatural. On the other hand, so …
Weekly Roundup, January 7, 2022
369 Supporters (+3 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning How are the New Year Resolutions holding up? My two perennial ones – eat less and exercise more – …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 17 December 2021
364 Supporters (unchanged from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning I received the long-await huge Amazon Echo Show 15 Alexa screen device at the weekend. I wrote a review …
The Echo Show 15 – Bigger, but Not Better
Amazon has struggled to extend its Alexa audio service into the realm of video. This latest product shows the struggle is ongoing and far from resolved. After introducing the first Echo (audio only) device …
The Amazon Smart Thermostat
Amazon announced its new Alexa-enabled smart thermostat back in September, and started shipping them this last week. Although smart thermostats, in general, have been around for some time. The Nest, released in 2011 and purchased …
Kindle Buyers’ Guide
Amazon’s venerable eBook reader, the Kindle, was first released in November 2007. Over the years it has evolved considerably, and these days the Kindle range can be found in three main forms – the regular/standard …
iPad Buyers’ Guide
Apple’s single model iPad, first released in 2010, has expanded to a confusing mix of four different families, with differing models over time within those families, and different options for each model. In addition, it …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 22 October 2021
354 Supporters (+8 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning It has been an exceptionally busy – and happily also an exceptionally productive week. Look at all the material …
