The Tech Addicts Podcast Gareth Myles

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TP-Link Tapo Smart Plug
 
Hardline on the hardware

The Samsung event really is coming this week..! Showing off in Italy!
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra gets unboxed a week ahead of its official launch
Prices leak too with USA getting the best deal
Samsung reveals Galaxy S23 series pre-order period and perks
The Galaxy S23 will be the first device to use Gorilla Glass Victus 2 - GG Victus 2

Galaxy S23 series will sport LPDDR5X RAM 
Jail threats stop AI 'robot lawyer' from making its debut in court
TCL's Ion X is an affordable Android smartphone with a removable battery landing on Metro in the US
OnePlus 11R set to launch alongside the OnePlus 11 on February 7
OnePlus Pad renders leak ahead of proposed February 7th launch
OPPO Pad 2 
Google Pixel Tablet: New leak ends Pixel Tablet Pro speculation but outlines 2.5K IPS display, Tensor G2 and new accessory details 
 
The Name of the Game
6.8-Inch AMOLED Gaming Tablet Razer Edge Launch January 26 
Another Source
 
Flap your trap about an App
Microsoft to stop selling Windows 10 downloads on January 31st
Google's MusicLM can generate music from text descriptions
Android 14 slated to start preventing old app instals
 
Chrome Corner
Google Chrome helps you reign in notification-blasting websites
Google’s expanding Chrome’s Incognito lockdown on mobile 
 
Hark Back
The ELP Laser Turntable (for Benefits, How it Works etc.)
The Music Addict’s 30-minute Review
Independent Review
Wiki Link
 
Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted
Edifier Studio R1280T 2.0 42W RMS Speakers - Maple £74.99 from £89.99 (and £99.99 at AmazonUK)
Samsung S34J550WQR - LED monitor - 34.1" - £289.00 Was: £349.99
Logitech MX Keys Advanced Illuminated Wireless Keyboard back down to £79.99
JBL Charge 5 - Portable Bluetooth Speaker - £109.99 Was: £159.99 
Battery Organiser Storage Case with Battery Tester £12 from £21
TP-Link Tapo Smart Plug Wi-Fi Outlet - £28.99 Was: £49.99 
Soundcore by Anker Space Q45 £109 from £139
Anker PowerConf S330 USB Conference Speaker £43 from £70
 
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Gareth and Ted are joined by Ricky West to chat about Razer soundbar, Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, Galaxy Book 3, RedMagic 8 Pro, NixieX, Oppo Find N2 Flip, Atari Portfolio, OPPO AirVOOC and more

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Ted’s Motorola Edge 30 Ultra Review - with Samsung’s ISOCELL HP1 1/1.22” (14mm) 200MP sensor

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Matt Jones on Baofeng UV-5R

…a cheap Chinese 2m/70cms FM transceiver. It's not a particularly good one, actually it's pretty poor in the grand scale of Radios, but it's not absolute garbage, and it does work as it's designed to. The thing that makes it iconic is the price. Where a Radio Amateur might have paid £300-£1000 for an equivalent product from a reputable manufacturer (Icon, Yeasu, Kenwood etc), I paid around £7 for this one from China (or £26 in the UK)! Which is astonishing when you consider this includes the Radio, Antenna, a Removable Li-ion Battery, two headsets, case, cradle dock and a charger.

The reason these are popular with a lot of folks is that they can be easily programmed to use the Licence Free PMR446 frequencies, (although technically it's not legal to do so) so they are popular with off-roaders, paintballers, security companies etc.

It’s a hell of alot of tech of £7 - and even works as a rechargeable torch!

…therein followed a long thread in our MeWe Group as listeners compared their memories and various pieces of Ham Radio kit!



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Harry Myhre (“My-ree”)

Amazon’s New Home Internet Service Is One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality

“Amazon plans to introduce home Internet service. Much like the starlink service. But I can see Amazon being able to offer more pricing bundles than Starlink”, says Harry.

3000 Satellites being launched into low-orbit!

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Hardline on the hardware

New Razer soundbar uses AI-based head-tracking to beam audio directly to your ears

Motorola’s upcoming budget phones are all but official in exhaustive leak

Samsung unveils 200MP ISOCELL HP2 1/1.3” (12mm) camera sensor that's likely to appear in the Galaxy S23 Ultra

Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Series launching 1st February

Samsung Display shows off a new folding phone hinge that can rotate 360 degrees

RedMagic 8 Pro goes official w/ Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, more

Is Google about to kill Apple’s and Samsung’s Tags? - with 3 Billion User-Network

NixieX Nixie tube clock and speaker

Oppo Find N2 Flip: Global model discovered on Geekbench with MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ chipset and 8 GB of RAM

New Tech Can See People Through Walls Using WiFi


The Name of the Game

Stadia Bluetooth mode - but be sure to do it before the end of 2023!


Flap your trap about an App

Microsoft starts replacing Groove Music app with Windows 11 Media Player on Windows 10

OpenAI Chat - ChatGPT Creates Polymorphic Malware

Google showcases TikTok's landscape mode on Android tablets

Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients

‘They’re 25, they don’t do emails’: is instant chat replacing the inbox?


Chrome Corner

Upcoming ChromeOS screen capture feature will make remote instruction even easier

Google's Material You custom theme colours are on the way for Chromebooks


Hark Back

Think you’d better lead on this Gareth - nice to do a listener one…unless you already did it?

Jeremy Harpham on the Atari Portfolio

Retro computing... remember this? MS Dos based Psion 5 rival - kind of - I think it pre-dates the Psion by a fair bit. I've got expansion cards and at least a printer interface somewhere too. This was my late father's. I

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Hardline on the hardware

Google accidentally reveals an upcoming device will launch with Fuchsia - Fuchsia 

Nowatch

Could floating solar farms survive out at sea?

Ricoh launches new GR III 'Diary Edition'

Sony NW-ZX707 previewed ahead of release with high-end components running Android 12

Sony Walkman NW-A306 music player unveiled

Gen Z-ers are ditching smartphones and are using digital cameras for photos these days - Retro Mad with iPod Apps

10.1-inch Android Tablet Ulefone Tab A8 Launching In January

Scientists create world's smallest record that can barely be seen by human eye

It's official: Samsung Galaxy S23 Unpacked event is happening on February 1 - S23 Ultra Specs

Microsoft 365 Basic $1.99/m comes with 100GB of OneDrive storage, Outlook, and more

Reports Show Americans pay around 700% More for Data than Consumers in the UK


The Name of the Game

Google will unlock Bluetooth support on Stadia Controller as the platform dies 


Flap your trap about an App

VPN by Google One now available for desktop

Samsung Galaxy phones get 'Matter Easy Pair' for quick smart home setups

Microsoft Office's next big trick could be using AI to write your docs for you - Have a go yourself (you have to open an account and get an SMS code)

YouTube Shorts revenue sharing starts February 1 as new Partner Program agreement rolls out

Google Discover rolls out three-column UI ahead of Pixel Tablet


Chrome Corner

Reminder…

How to find your Chromebook's update schedule and how many updates you have left

Asus Chromebook CM14m - Hands on Video - Article


Hark Back

VHS Boxes


Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

This ivoler £38 Steam Deck dock is a great alternative to Valve's official model

Logitech MX Keys Mini Minimalist Wireless Illuminated Keyboard - £69.99 Was: £109.99 

Logitech G435 Lightspeed Bluetooth Wireless Gaming Headset £75 to £50

TECKNET PD Power Bank, 22.5W PD3.0 QC4.0 10000mAH Mobile Phone Portable Charger External Battery Pack - £15.99 (Mediam price - £19.99)

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Desktop Processor £329 down to £185

Samsung USB Type-C™ 256GB 400MB/s USB 3.1 Flash Drive - £23.99

Sony Xperia 10 IV £399 down to £346 (with 5 x £69.25)


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Gareth and Ted are back with a round up come of the CES headlines from this years' show. Lenovo, Samsung, Roku, TCL, Xiaomi, Realme, Acer and Asus all turn heads with some new technological innovations alongside a step forward in clean energy and backward in diplomatic relations.

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Lenovo Tab M9 for kids unveiled: $140 tablet with 9" screen, optional 4G

Samsung made a laptop display that folds and slides at the same time

Acer SpatialLabs TrueGame offers glasses-free 3D gaming 

TCL just announced a bunch of new tablets at CES 2023

Roku is officially launching its own line of TVs starting at $119

Realme confirms the GT Neo 5 - first phone to feature 240W charging - Full Specs

Xiaomi‘s new Redmi 12 Pro+ packs a 200MP camera for less than $400

Lenovo (at last) announces ThinkPhone by Motorola with SD 8+ Gen 1

Hands on: Lenovo's Yoga Book 9i is the Surface Neo that Microsoft never gave us

Drop's tiny desktop speakers promise audiophile quality

The Galaxy A14 is Samsung's best-looking budget phone yet - A13 vs A14 Specs

Most Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips to be manufactured by TSMC

New wireless charging standard wants to refuel your devices from across the room

The world's most powerful wind turbine has produced its first power

Motorola could beat rivals to the punch with two-way satellite messaging

Hackers reportedly leak email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users 

Asus Zen book pro - Buy from Amazon

AMD 7900 issue

Sennheiser Conversation Clear Plus


The Name of the Game

Dell unveils second-gen Concept Nyx, the gaming controller of the future

Archer Maclean has passed away, aged 60 - List of games


 

Chrome Corner

ASUS Chromebox 5 adds unique new feature 


Hark Back

Sound Burger - Photos and Diagrams

And now, another relaunch in Spring 2023!

Audio-Technica is bringing back the Sound Burger this spring


Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

Samsung EVO Select 512GB microSDXC - £37.99

Samsung EVO Select 256GB microSDXC - £17.99

Note the different listings on these - don’t get them mixed up.

Mini Projector Elephas 5G WiFi DLP Portable Projector with Bluetooth 71% off! £830 to £199 (with £40 voucher)

Anker Power Bank, 24,000mAh 3-Port Portable Charger £99.99 Was: £139.99 

Gorsun bluetooth kids headphones £30 down to £17

Anker 4-Port USB 3.0 Ultra Slim Data Hub - £11.65 Was: £12.69 + 15% off 

Motorola Edge 30 Neo - my Phone of the Year - Back down to £299 from £349

Crucial P3 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD -  £109.48 Was: £160.37 

Elgato Stream Deck XL – 32 macro keys, £185 from £230 but with £37 x 5 months (for me)


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A Christmas Special, Tech Addicts style... or shorter. Gareth and Ted are back with the last podcast of the year, you'll be please to hear. OnePlus mechanical keyboard, Realme GT Neo 5, Sky ads, Dyson rebreather headphones, Motorola X40 event, Samsung security, Apple in Arizona and much, much more. Gareth and Ted chat about their Christmas morning memories as kids.

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Gareth Williams 

No Tech Addicts for 3 weeks over Christmas and NY? A terrible end to 2022. On a serious note, the podcast remains (unsurprisingly) top class. Looking forward to what tech (and the podcast) has in store in 2023.

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Hardline on the hardware

OnePlus is making a mechanical keyboard that you can buy next year

Samsung to make fingerprint login 2.5bn more secure in 2025

Realme GT Neo 5 rumoured to come with 240W wired charging

Sky will charge customers £5 if they fast forward through adverts

These Dyson headphones cost $949 and can purify the air around you

Amazon wants to give you $2 a month to spy on your phone usage

Motorola announces December 15 launch event, Moto X40 expected

Tecno unveils Phantom X2 Pro smartphone with retractable portrait lens

Realme 10 Pro and 10 Pro+ make their global debut

Tim Cook confirms that Apple will begin using chips made in the United States

Logitech Blue Sona XLR Microphone Review: It Hits Every Note


The Name of the Game

Amazon Luna can now play games you own on PC, no channel subscriptions required


Flap your trap about an App

Risky online behaviour ‘almost normalised’ among young people

Google details what apps will offer Spatial Audio on Pixel phones and Buds Pro


Chrome Corner

Google Chrome is now more RAM and energy efficient with these two new features


Hark Back

Christmas Morning


Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

Microsoft QHG-00004 Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse Set, Black - Now £34.99 Was: £59.99

Logitech MX Master 2S £25 off, now £39.99

HyperX SoloCast – USB Condenser Gaming Microphone - Now: £39.99 Was: £64.99 

Logitech K380 £26 from £45

Crucial MX500 4TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - Now: £256.06 Was: £362.87

Razer Basilisk Ultimate £110 from £150


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YouTube: Tech Addicts

Gareth and Ted natter about ZTE Axon 40 Ultra Space Edition, Apple shortfall, Pixel 7a, Gorilla Glass Victus 2, Lastpass, Creative Pebble Pro 2.0, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 rumours, Loupedeck Live S, Amazon Luna, Mocopi, Netflix games and Pong.

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Feedback and Contributions

Juliet Purcell - Listening to the 20th November Tech Addicts podcast episode, I think the organ that you mention that you have to pedal to get the air into the bellows to enable you to play is called a Harmonium. They used to be routinely found in Welsh chapels.

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Steve Litchfield’s Power Stations for Dummies and Review of the Anker 737

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Frank Niethardt

I had a Palm III at work and my boss a Palm V. Early 2000s that must have been. I remember the hotsync debacle. We used Novell Groupwise at that time and there was a software called intellisync that worked quite well with it. But when it failed it was horrible.

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I got my £19.99 back from Stadia, but they’re trying to refund it to an old card. D’oh!

Retro Game Corps - My Favorite Handhelds of 2022


Hardline on the hardware

Apple facing shortfall of 6 million iPhone 14 Pro units due to ongoing factory turmoil

ZTE unveils Axon 40 Ultra Space Edition with up to 18GB of RAM and 1TB storage, ceramic back - Specs

New leak gives us our first glimpse at the Pixel 7a

Samsung is getting branding ready for 'Superfast' charging

Samsung Lights up Swiss Life Arena With the Largest Indoor LED Cube Installation in Europe

This upcoming smartwatch lets you store your earbuds inside it!

Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Victus 2 with improved drop resistance

This aesthetically designed hand crank power bank will never let you down

Lastpass Got Hacked - More

Creative Pebble Pro 2.0 speakers

Rumour Alert: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 to have much larger cover display, invisible crease

Google's December Android Feature Drop delivers lots of new features for Google Pixels

The Loupedeck Live S is an Easy and Affordable Streaming Controller

The New Cleer Scene Delivers Elegant Design And Refined Audio For A Sophisticated Listening Experience - £99 on Amazon


The Name of the Game

Amazon Luna is losing nearly 50 games before the end of the year

Microsoft is selling mini hoody jackets for your Xbox controllers!

Netflix games gets 9 new games in November


Flap your trap about an App

Sony’s Mocopi makes it easier for anyone to become a VTuber

Post Social Media

Post News


Chrome Corner

How to create and manage Google Alerts to be notified when interesting content hits the web

Gmail's search function is getting better by learning from your previous searches

Pixel Recorder 4.2 rolling out 'Speaker labels' that can detect multiple people talking

Upcoming ChromeOS video conferencing tools gain background blur and replace


Hark Back

Pong is now half a century old


Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X - Now £338.99 Was £439.99 (5900 series down too)

Extension Lead 5 USB (5A, 1 USB-C and 4 USB-A) with 1.8M Braided Extension cord, 3250W Overload Protection was £30 now £17

TP-Link Tapo Smart Plug Wi-Fi Outlet - Was £15.99 Now £24.99 

Razer Leviathan V2 (PC Gaming Soundbar with Subwoofer, THX Spatial Audio, Bluetooth 5.2) £249 down to £180

HTC HD HD2 Phone T8585 Microsoft Windows Mobile £6.50 - Horrify your kids this Christmas. Upgrade their phone!!

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE 12.4 Inch 64GB Wi-Fi, £100 off again just now, so £419


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