This Month
Mate X e-bike belies its brutish looks to offer a sedate ride
It might look like it's for louts and teenagers and mountains and mud, but this Danish-made elecric bike rides like it's for adults.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why Google's Pixel 5 is a threat to the pricey iPhone 12
The Pixel 5 may not be the most futuristic phone on the market, but somehow it feels like the future of phones.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
Sony's Alpha 7C reinvents the travel camera
This full-frame compact model can take the public performance that is tourism and transform it into high art. More Instagram followers are a snap away.
- John Davidson
Meet the coffee machine that's smarter than you
The De'Longhi La Specialista Maestro might take you on a mad journey, but the destination is a delight.
- John Davidson
How I came to love my $1200 robot vacuum cleaner
The next-gen Roborock S6 MaxV doesn't eliminate the need for the occasional manual vacuum, but it sure is good at getting out of a tangle.
- John Davidson
September
Eggs cues the typos: We rote this review by hand on the new iPad
Despite the slow going, the eighth-generation handwriting system is without a dots the best we've ever seen on any device. Doubts, not dots!
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Opinion
New Apple Watch's best features aren't new at all
Despite our misgivings about the new features in the Apple Watch Series 6, it's actually pretty great.
- John Davidson
Hisense shows how two screens are better than one ... mostly
Having spent some time comparing the new Dual Cell technology to OLED, I have just two things to say: Wow! And, wow, how did they get it so wrong?
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Phones
Why Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold2 can kiss my …
If there was smartphone this year that could rekindle your interest in that fairly stagnant category of technology, this is probably it.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Opinion
Is a $4000 coffee machine worth it?
We're two weeks into our brew-to-brew battle between Breville's high-end Oracle Touch and its much cheaper Bambino Plus, and the results are surprising.
- John Davidson
August
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why we're blue about Samsung's Galaxy Watch3
We're desperate to believe our blood oxygen levels are as hale as this smartwatch claims them to be, but can we believe it?
- John Davidson
The right tool for the right job: Samsung's Galaxy Tab S7+
For anyone who wants to take handwritten notes on top of an audio recording, this is a killer device.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Phones
Can Samsung make you pay a fortune for a phone right now?
Samsung's soon-to-be-released Galaxy Note20 Ultra is great, but the gap between 'best and most expensive', and 'cheaper and almost as good' is now much smaller.
- John Davidson
July
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
Why this robot cleaner is almost perfect
The Ecovacs Ozmo T8 AIVI is nothing short of miraculous when it comes to the hazardous mission that is vacuuming a home.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Gadgets
The Chromebook that acts like a computer (but isn't quite)
If you have, say, a least-favourite child who needs to do software development for school, a low-cost Chromebook is now a very viable option.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
Throw shapes with Nanoleaf's nifty new lighting system
Nanoleaf's Hexagons are trippy and dreamy and something else altogether.
- John Davidson
June
- Opinion
- Gadgets
Will the faster version of 5G be worth the wait?
Telstra’s latest hotspot supports a very fast version of 5G known as "mmWave", which hasn't yet even been rolled out in Australia.
- John Davidson
May
- Opinion
- Opinion
Turn any old screen into a home office dream PC
The NUC has a silly name but is a very useful tiny computer that you can attach to the back of most screens to effectively turn them into an all-in-one computer.
- John Davidson
April
- Opinion
- Tech for the shutdown
This watch helps you stay active when you're locked indoors
Despite its rather antiquated notions of what constitutes exercise these days, Samsung's Galaxy Watch Active2 has plenty going for it.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Tech for the shutdown
Working, studying, bingeing from home? Dell's All-In-One has it all
Dell's all-in-one PC could be just the just the thing for anyone needing an affordable-ish extra computer in the house for those sudden work and study demands.
- John Davidson
