This was a surprise! — I wasn’t going to review the AirPods Pro 2. This was for two reasons. Firstly, Apple’s unveiling of them at the Far Out event earlier this month was easily the most boring part of the entire show. “Here’s your new AirPods Pro,” they said. “We’ve fiddled with the noise-cancelling and…

It’s not what you (probably) think — I will attempt to get through this entire blog post without referring to Dynamic Island as ‘Monkey Island’. I really will. I promise. As I noted during my first impressions review of the iPhone 14 Pro Max, Dynamic Island makes Apple’s latest flagship phone feel newer than its predecessors. In…

It’s been a long two years… — There aren’t many products I review each year that demand to be regularly revisited. There’s the MacBook Air, which remains Apple’s most sought-after laptop. Similarly, it’s as easy to spark up a mass conversation about the iPhone 13 mini as it is to use Apple’s tiny smartphone one-handed. 5 Things I’ve Learned About the M2 MacBook Air And, no, I don’t mention the obvious stuffmedium.com

I had a plan all along! — “Here’s a radical thought: don’t do a review. If you have nothing to write, write nothing.” There’s always one, isn’t there? The above comment was left on a Medium article I published last week which asked for some help with my forthcoming review of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. As…

What a list! — Whether it’s handy peripherals for your iPad mini, the best way to keep your phone scratch-free, or the headphone stand you didn’t know you needed, there’s nothing like a tech accessories review. I love making them, too. As you might guess, tech reviewers like myself are bombarded (in the nicest…

It’s not all about size — I’m sure more than one eyebrow has been raised about my decision to switch from the iPhone 13 mini to the iPhone 14 Pro Max. I have, after all, spent the last twelve months telling you all how wonderful Apple’s diminutive smartphone is. And it still is exactly that —…

Is this a turning point? — If you want to know everything about the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, go and watch MKBHD’s review. The king of tech reviews manages to cover everything that matters with these new phones in a typically assured, non-hyperbolic fashion. …

What keeps you in the walled garden? — I need to come clean. I’m one of those people who carries two phones. Sorry. The iPhone 13 mini — soon to be replaced, comically, by the iPhone 14 Pro Max — is my daily iOS carry, while my current Android steed is the fascinating Samsung Galaxy Flip4. Could This Replace My iPhone 13 mini? I’ve preordered mine!medium.com I’m often…

This was a BIG lesson — Ask any YouTuber what their main challenge is, and they’re likely to say, “I just don’t have enough time to get it all done”. That might be true, but as I’ve discovered recently, we really are the masters of our own destiny when it comes to how much productivity we…