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Will you get a Playstation 5 for Christmas?

Will you get a Playstation 5 for Christmas?

If you’ve been trying to get your hands on a PlayStation 5 for the past 2 years…things are starting to look up! Sony’s PlayStation 5 launched in November 2020, but quickly sold out* and since then you’ve either had to pay highly inflated prices to a private seller or just really really lucky to find stock as it landed in[Read More…]

What is WiFi 7?

What is WiFi 7?

Just how good can Wifi get? The current standard Wifi 6 already delivers speeds almost 3 times faster than the previous generation of Wifi, plus lower latency and increased range, but Intel reports we can expect a lot more from WiFi 7. A recent WiFi 7 demonstration from Intel and Broadcom has set the stage for the next generation of[Read More…]

The beginning of the end for the humble Sim Card

The beginning of the end for the humble Sim Card

How much better would smartphones be if you didn’t need to mess around with that little, fiddly plastic Sim Card? According to a research from Amdocs, almost 80 percent of us are in favour of ditching the traditional Sim Card and moving to phones that use only eSim technology. Generally you don’t have to think about the Sim Card in[Read More…]

What does this Emoji mean?

What does this Emoji mean?

Australian’s love using emojis to communicate how we feel.  In fact a recent study by Adobe found that Aussies are more likely to send emojis than people in other countries. But with so many emojis to choose from now, you have to wonder if some of them mean what you think they do.  Adobe found that the top 3 mis-understood[Read More…]

Time for a digital detox?

Time for a digital detox?

More than half of Australians are addicted to their smartphones. That’s one of the findings from a recent reviews.org survey that also revealed that only 38 percent of respondents had attempted any kind of digital detox. Could you go 24-hours without technology? That’s no smart phones, TVs, laptops, computer games, consoles, smart home devices or speakers, to see if you[Read More…]