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iPhone 8 Plus Review

iPhone 8 Plus Greatest iPhone Until the iPhone X The annual Apple iPhone update is always a hotly anticipated event, and this year was no different – bringing new, fully numbered mainline smartphone updates in the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, as well as an overhauled, higher-spec, 10th anniversary-celebrating iPhone Xfor the larger of wallet. Apple unveiled the exciting but extremely expensive iPhone X on 12 Sept, but before it got to that the company also revealed 2017's more prosaic smartphone update: the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. With Samsung's Galaxy S9 not dropping till next spring, can Apple's latest establish itself as the de facto high-end smartphone before Christmas? Or will the glare of the shiny iPhone X distract its own established fans? We've had a few weeks with the iPhone 8 Plus to find out. Compared to the X, with its fairly radical redesign, the 8 and 8 Plus run the risk of looking a little dull, a bit been-there-done-that. But is that a fair as...

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Review

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Most Expensive Galaxy Note to Date But Powerful and Does it All The Galaxy Note 8 has its work cut out for it, righting the wrongs of the maligned Note 7 that came to a fiery end. But with a massive screen, tiny bezels, battery life to go the distance and an excellent stylus, is the Note 8 finally what phablet fans have been asking for? The Samsung Note series created the phablet category in 2011, defined as a smartphone with a 5in or larger screen. As smartphone screens grew in size to the monsters we have today, a big screen wasn’t enough to differentiate the Note against the competition. But while large screens are now common, a stylus is certainly not. So it is the unique blend of large screen, a stylus, the as-small-as-possible form factor and large collection of productivity tools that have made the Note so popular. The Note 8 doesn’t break with that tradition. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Design The Note 8’s screen is ginormous. At 6.3i...

Huawei Mate 10 Pro Review

Huawei Mate 10 Pro Chinese Phone Maker’s Most Ambitious Phone Huawei has established a trend of releasing standard and 'pro' versions of its flagship Mate handsets, and the latest models continue that trend. In fact, there are three versions of the Huawei Mate 10. In addition to the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, there's an even more expensive Porsche Design version too. The Mate 10 Pro Is bursting with top-end features, including Android 8 (Oreo), the Kirin 970 processor with integrated AI (which affects many aspects of the phone, including photography and energy efficiency), a Leica-branded dual-lens rear camera and dual 4G LTE SIM support. Its Mate series has always had practically zero side bezels so although some will think that Huawei is just copying the big boys with the Mate 10, it’s actually the other way around. The last few Mates have all looked pretty much the same, but Huawei has shaken things up for 2017 and it's no overstatement to say this is...