Category: Toys & Technology

One of the best features of the Oculus Quest is its ability to access both tethered and also full-on mobile content i.e. the best of both ecosystems. At the point of purchase, I assumed that I would be full-on just

My first comments two weeks into the Oculus Quest! Setting up the Quest and pairing it to my Samsung Galaxy S20+ was easy and worked without a hitch, as did also the  Windows app to enable Oculus Link. The Oculus

It’s been nearly 4.5 years since I tried out VR gear, and that was with the Samsung Gear VR, blogged here. The technology was still in relative infancy – consumer-grade that is – back then, and suffered from issues that

Ever since picking up the Huawei Watch GT more than 18 months ago, the watch preceding that – the Samsung Gear Sport – has been returned to its box. I took it out for a while over the weekend. And

Some years back – around 7-8 years at least probably – I wrote a post listing the mobile phones I’ve owned since 1995 till that time. Unfortunately, that post got lost when I migrated between blogging platforms. I probably still

Continued from the last post! The Snapdragon 865 in the S20+ has a lot of processing power to spare for general use, such that enabling medium or high power saving modes still provides for a very responsive phone in general

Continued from the last post! It wasn’t an easy decision whether to go with the Samsung Galaxy S20+, the OnePlus 8 Pro, or the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro. But there were a few factors that swayed my decision: Importantly, the

Continued from the last post! Most of my researching for a replacement phone in April was centered on two devices: the OnePlus 8 Pro, and the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro. Both easily ticked off all the key requirements: they featured

There’s only so much larger a phone can grow, size-wise, before it really becomes unwieldy. With current generation phones – particularly the manufacturer flagship ones – already featuring near bezel-less screens and screen to body ratios of 90% and higher,

Continued from the last post. Nearly a month of use into the Aero 15-X9, and I’ve got enough substantiated impressions to write about now. Generally, the Aero 15 has performed well and right up to my expectations of it. Still,

The Aftershock S17 which I’ve used extensively for four years finally gave up its ghost during the last week of March, and no amount of coaxing would revive it. I couldn’t figure out what had finally failed, but I suspect