OnePlus 6 Re-Review: I Wish All Phones Were THIS Good!

Rajesh Pandey

OnePlus has managed to carve a name for itself for consistently rolling out some great mid-range devices. Initially, the company surprised everyone by releasing devices which offered an incredible value for money. However, over

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OnePlus 6 Review: Fast, Future Proof and Cheap

Steve Litchfield

Conventional wisdom says that smartphones in 2018 are little more than glass slabs with similar features and, while the discerning enthusiast knows that this is not true (there are plenty of differentiators), the new OnePlus

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Honor 10 Review: Much More Than ‘The Poor Man’s iPhone X’

Steve Litchfield

The months and years roll by and Huawei and Honor smartphones evolve… slowly. Each is - genuinely - better than the last, but the glossy mass of glass, the avalanche of Emotion UI and bundled software, the

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Review: Mophie Juice Pack for Samsung Galaxy S9+

Steve Litchfield

It's not often that an accessory is perfect. Yet this Mophie design gets as close as it possibly can, building inexorably to something of a huge caveat: its price. But hopefully this look through

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Huawei P20 Pro Review: The Compromised Camera-centric Flagship

Steve Litchfield

One complaint about general phone reviews has been that they focus(!) too much on the cameras - most of us only take a handful of photos per day, yet quite often a third of a phone

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Samsung Galaxy S9 Review: Finally a Flagship with Everything

Steve Litchfield

Starting with a (ahem) mock drama set in Samsung’s boardroom, I present my assessment of the brand new Galaxy S9 (and, by extension, the S9+, since most of the hardware and software are identical).

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Redmi Note 5 Pro Review

Rajesh Pandey

Xiaomi has had one heck of 2017 in India. Building on the success of the Redmi Note 4, Redmi 4A, Redmi 4, and the Mi A1, the company managed to surpass Samsung and become the

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Honor 7X Review: The Wide Screen Mid-Ranger That Just Falls Short

Steve Litchfield

Attending Honor’s big event this week in London, I couldn’t help shake the feeling that despite their claims about innovation, and a few software tweaks aside, all they really did was copy what

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OnePlus 5T Review: Bargain of the Year – Why Are OTHER Flagships Are So Expensive?

Steve Litchfield

Right up front I have to tell you, there’s nothing special to see here, nothing unique. Move right along. Unless you want a bargain Android flagship. You see, the USP here is the price.

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Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Review: Bezel-less Wonder!

Rajesh Pandey

Last year, Xiaomi managed to make the whole of the smartphone industry sit up and take notice of its efforts with the original Mi Mix. Wanting to outgrow its image of a Chinese company making

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Razer Phone Preview: Brute Force and Piercing Volume

Steve Litchfield

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Google Pixel 2 XL Review: Imperfect Phone of the Future?

Steve Litchfield

All of Google's ducks were seemingly lined up in a row. The industry was moving towards 'bezel-less' phones with 18:9 screens, its Assistant is now pretty mature, its camera image processing is

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Google Pixel 2 Review: Compact and Concise, but Who’s It For?

Steve Litchfield

And so to this year’s Google Pixels, now with ‘2’ in the name, still with the two sizes (regular and XL), with pumped up internals and stereo speakers but sadly missing a standard headphone

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Xiaomi Mi A1 Review: The Android One Handset We Have Been Waiting for

Rajesh Pandey

Thanks to the excellent budget smartphones it has been launching consistently in India, Xiaomi has been dominating the smartphone market in the country. This is despite the marketing blitz from the likes of Oppo and

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Review: The Most Capable Smartphone on the Planet

Steve Litchfield

The thing about the Galaxy Note 8 is that it’s not ‘just’ a smartphone. It’s that and a stylus-centric tablet and a pocket computer, all in one. Even though there are annoyances,

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Nokia 6 Review: A Solid Return to Smartphones

Steve Litchfield

The Nokia 6 is the current* spearhead of the brand’s return to the smartphone world in 2017 and follows several years of being locked out, following the Microsoft buyout of its Devices division in

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Xiaomi Mi Max 2 Review

Rajesh Pandey

Before you dismiss this review thinking large phones like the 6.44-inch Mi Max 2 which blur the line between a phone and a tablet are impractical for use in daily life, think again.

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HTC U11 Review: Shiny and futuristic – yet also stuck in the past

Steve Litchfield

There are numerous superlatives that could be levelled at the new HTC U11. It’s super-speedy, it takes superb photos, it’s virtually ‘stock’ (Android), the display’s fabulous... and it’s a great

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