Roundup: Best of TechRadar: this weeks best features and hottest reviews The best tech you can buy in 2014 Our ultimate tech buying guide! Its our mission at TechRadar to help you find the tech products that are best for you. Thats why we review the specific products we do, while offering a veritable smorgasbord of helpful buying guides and product round-ups to help you find the perfect play things and workplace wonders. Whether it be an ideal camera phone for your mum or a kick-ass Blu-ray player to pair with your new TV, weve got the experts on hand to offer the very best buying advice on the internet. Here youll find a comprehensive repository of all that expert knowledge. With buying advice and specific product recommendations, look no further for your best chance of finding all the cool gadgets available today. Read: Cool Gadgets: the 1000 best products in tech The incredible high-tech supercar that changes everything The BMW i8 is astonishing A near £100,000 / $150,000 supercar tuned for fuel efficiency and sporting a mere three-cylinder engine? The all new BMW i8 is surely proof that the modern obsession with emission has finally driven the car industry round the twist. As it turns out, the BMW i8 is one of the most brilliantly resolved cars weve driven all year – maybe even years when you consider just how complex it is. Read all about the BMW i8 Why the Nokia X is the best phone youll never buy Wheres the X-Factor? While 2014 will likely be remembered for its Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony and Apple flagships, its a trio of budget Nokia handsets that have been among the most unexpected and surprising releases so far. Were talking of course about the dramatically named Nokia X and its siblings the Nokia X+ and Nokia XL. Theyre phones which had tongues wagging ever since they were first rumoured for the simple reason that they were Nokia devices running Android. When they were finally revealed there was perhaps a sense of disappointment at just how low end they were, but that hasnt stopped the Nokia X from selling. Continue reading... Privacy on a fast-track to nowhere? Time to bring back carrier pigeons? The UK government announced something quite unusual last week, in the form of a rushed plan to fast track new laws on compulsory data retention into place. The fast track element worried many, as this is a sort of emergency parliamentary process used to force rules into place in a hurry, without the usual debates and votes that we, as a democracy, tend to expect to see. Continue reading... 13 features the PS4 needs to be a kick-ass console Now Sony, its not that were not grateful for the PS4. Its so shiny (well, half shiny), pleasantly shaped and ever so full of games at 60fps. Its still the best selling next-gen console and its a more capable gaming machine compared to Xbox One. But there are just a few niggles wed like ironed out sooner rather than later. Were not ungrateful in any way for the intuitive UI, great social features and easy ways to share screenshots and gameplay but we are a bit like eighth generation Oliver and just want a little bit more. Here are the thirteen features that wed like as soon as possible. 14 features the Xbox One needs to be a kick-ass console Come on Microsoft, you know you want to add these features The Xbox One has radically changed since its launch in November last year. Microsoft has, to its credit, listened to fan feedback and rolled out a wealth of system updates almost every single month - refining certain features, adding completely new ones, and even ditching the bundled Kinect, something the company once claimed it would never do. But though the Xbox One is undoubtedly improved from its initial incarnation, there are still a few improvements to be made here and there before we consider Microsofts work well and truly done. Here are fourteen changes we want to see in future updates Face to face with the all-new ASIMO If you want to know what its like to meet ASIMO in person, wed recommend checking out Jake Schreiers Robot & Frank. There were moments during our presentation where the similarities between ASIMO and the films own little white bot were uncanny. Like, scarily uncanny Jaguar Land Rover reveals self-learning intelligent car of the future Forget self-driving cars, this ones self-learning Jaguar Land Rover has today announced what its billing as the self-learning intelligent car of the future. Disguised as vaporware but actually comprising real-life technology that definitely works, its a new in-car intelligence system designed to reduce driver distraction by anticipating your every thought and auto-performing your in-car activities so you dont have to bother. Real tech or too good to be true? You decide... My Android epiphany: iPhone battery life is killing Apple FIGHTING TALK The last week or so, Ive been using a different device – a Sony Xperia Z2. Just for fun. As you do. And Ive had this major epiphany: I have been battering the device and yet, the battery just wont die. Im yelling at it: LET GO, DAMMIT! but it just wont. I managed 18 hours of standby yesterday with almost four hours of screen on time and it still sat at 36%. That was without power saving mode enabled. Ive come to work without a charging cable today and for the first time in a long time, Im not panicking. Read on to find out why... Yo ISO, how low can you go? Why do camera manufacturers insist on taking ISO settings upwards instead of down? It was by a series of great achievements that by the end of the 1800s photographic emulsion was sensitive enough to light that portrait photographers no longer had to use head clamps to ensure their subjects stayed still for the duration of the exposure. Progress in the science of light-sensitive materials had discovered compounds and ways of creating larger crystals that reduced the time required to make a decent photograph. By the end of films heyday, perhaps sometime in the 1990s, photographers had access to emulsions that had reached the heady heights of ISO 3200. Thats quite some dramatic progression from the ISO 1/4, and lower, equivalent ratings of the early days of our craft. Continue reading... Nokia Lumia 930 A colourful handset that battles against Windows Phone The Nokia Lumia 930 is the best Windows Phone yet – youll probably read that across the web. But thats like saying its the best seaplane: youll really need some elements of it from time to time, and youll be able to use it, but really you want something thats able to flourish in more scenarios. The build quality is excellent and iconic, and the camera is powerful and results in mostly great snaps. I like that 32GB is on offer as the base model, and wireless charging built in is perfect. The price is pretty good too, and if youre a fan of Windows Phone there is nothing better right now. But Microsoft needs to boost the UI and usability of its OS as soon as possible to make sure it keeps up with pack – and thats the main thing thats troubling the Nokia Lumia 930 right now. Nokia Lumia 930 review Samsung UE55HU8200 Samsungs cheapest curved screen delivers superb 4K/UHD picture quality Do you need a curved TV? Of course not. Does it help the picture? Not particularly, but theres no doubting that this 55-inch edge LED-backlit LCD from Samsung is one of the best looking TVs around. Much more important is its 4K resolution, which thankfully doesnt mean the UE55HU8200 is biased towards this virtually non-existent source of video. Treating Blu-ray and Freeview HD very well with high detail, accurate colour and bags of contrast, the app-packed UE55HU8200 is a great all-rounder that only struggles with its smart interaction voice control, and the odd motion blur. Samsung UE55HU8200 review Eclipse TD-M1 These 2.0 AirPlay speakers look good, and sound even better The Eclipse TD-M1 AirPlay speakers offer a beautiful sound, but theyre not for everyone. In taking a new look at the way speakers operate they will suit the very discerning jazz, classical and easy listening enthusiasts, especially when accurate vocal reproduction is demanded. However, rock or hip-hop fans that demand an intense, thumping bass might not appreciate them quite as much. Make sure you dont waste their talents on over-compressed MP3s, too. Eclipse TD-M1 review Samsung UE55HU8500 Samsungs flagship 4K/UHD TV with curved screen and enhanced Smart TV features The UE55UH8500 is a worthy addition to the 4K/UHD stable, complementing its big brother, the mightily impressive UE65HU8500. There are some unsatisfying aspects to its less important features but for its sheer picture excellence its a total delight. As for the screens shape: try the curve, if youve got the nerve. Samsung UE55HU8500 review
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