I spend a lot of time on the road testing chargers, cables and laptops, so I’ve learned what actually matters when you’re trying to charge a MacBook Air quickly without trashing the batteries in your phone and tablet over a multi-day trip. The right pocket power bank and USB-C cable combo is...
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Wearables
I get asked a lot whether you can cobble together hospital-grade SpO2...
How-to
I get this question a lot: can you reach your Home Assistant instance from...
Mobile
I spent a week carrying a Pixel Fold as my primary photo-editing workstation to...
Mobile
I spend a lot of evenings crouched on cold grass, phone mounted on a cheap...
I spent a week carrying a Pixel Fold as my primary photo-editing workstation to see whether a modern foldable can actually replace a laptop for a full, desktop-grade photo workflow on the go. I’m talking RAW capture import from an SD card or...
I spend a lot of evenings crouched on cold grass, phone mounted on a cheap tripod, trying to squeeze usable night-sky shots from devices that were never designed as dedicated astrophotography tools. If you’ve got around £300 to spend and want the...
I’ve been carrying the Google Pixel Fold as a daily device for several weeks now, and one question keeps coming up in DMs and comments: can the Pixel Fold handle pro-level photo editing and layer-based workflows on the go? I pushed the Fold...
I’ve been wearing both a Garmin Epix Gen 2 and an Apple Watch Ultra for weeks, pushing them through multi-hour trail runs, long Alpine days, and multi-sport sessions that include laps in open water and hours on gravel. If you’re deciding which...
I run a lot of camera tests at Wcetesting Co, and one question keeps coming up: how can you keep local, private backups of your Arlo and Nest cameras without paying for cloud subscriptions? I’ve worked through this by combining honest checks on...
I wanted a private, low-cost way to store footage from my smart home cameras without paying for cloud subscriptions or trusting a third-party service. What I ended up building is a simple local backup server using a Raspberry Pi and inexpensive...
I get asked this a lot on Wcetesting Co: can a refurbished iPhone 12 still deliver reliable battery and camera performance after two years of heavy use? I spent the last month running a hands-on evaluation of a refurbished iPhone 12 that had been on...
When I’m hunting for true gym-ready earbuds that won’t kill your gaming experience, I look for two non-negotiables: a sweatproof build that survives heavy workouts and a low-latency audio path that keeps your game and visuals in sync. Under £80...
I’m going to show you how I get Pixel 8a–level night and astrophotography results from a budget Android phone by shooting RAW and manually stacking frames. I do this on phones that don’t have Google’s sophisticated multi-frame pipeline, and...
I’ve moved Sonos setups between accounts more times than I care to admit while testing multi-room audio workflows — and every time the same questions come up: how do I keep my playlists, my multi-room groupings, and that sweet crossfade setting...