Episodes
This week on the Friday News Update: - Cybic announce the Legend range of smart bikes at CES 2019, with a screen for maps and directions, a music player and Alexa built-in - Nvidia announce the new RTX 2060 graphics card, giving you ray-tracing tech for an affordable price, and that their RTX graphics cards are coming to laptops - ASUS announce the ROG Mothership gaming laptop, one of the first laptops with an RTX graphics card, featuring a detachable keyboard, a 17" Full HD 144Hz screen and...
Published 01/12/19
Published 01/12/19
This week on the Friday News Update: - Apple announces that it expects to earn $5 million less than initially predicted, blaming sales of iPhones, especially in China, causing shares in other companies with lots of sales in China to drop - Xiaomi announces the amazing new Mi Play budget phone, with a waterdrop notch, the new Helio P35 and 10GB free data every month for a year - Honor properly announce their first phone with a hole in the screen for the selfie camera, the Honor View20, in...
Published 01/04/19
Plus the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT and the HTC Desire 12S. This week on the Friday News Update: - Huawei announces their first phone with a hole in the screen for the selfie camera, the Nova 4, with triple cameras enabling 10X zoom and wide angle shots, the Kirin 970 and a 3750mAh battery for a very affordable price - Lenovo announces the Z5S budget phone, with a waterdrop notch, the Snapdragon 710 and triple cameras - Lenovo also announces the Z5 Pro GT, a slider phone which could be the first phone...
Published 12/21/18
Plus the Galaxy A8S and the Skullcandy Push wireless earphones. This week on the Friday News Update: - Vivo announces the Vivo NEX Dual Display Edition, with a 5.5" second screen on the back for taking selfies, a Time of Flight camera for 3D facial recognition and 10GB of RAM - Samsung announces the first phone with a hole in the screen for the selfie camera, the Galaxy A8S, with a 6.4" screen, triple cameras and a Snapdragon 710 - Galaxy S10 UK prices, screen sizes and the design of the...
Published 12/16/18
Plus the Nokia 8.1, a huge Galaxy S10+ design leak and the shutdown of Google Allo. This week on the Friday News Update: - Nokia announce the Nokia 8.1, giving you a 3500mAh battery, a Snapdragon 710 and Android Pie with Android One for £380, as well as the Nokia 3.1 Plus with a 6" screen without a notch, 2 day battery life and a Helio P22 for £170 and the European availability of the Nokia 5.1 Plus, available for £200 in the UK - Qualcomm announce the Snapdragon 855, the processor that will...
Published 12/07/18
Plus the Honor 8C and LG's 16 camera phone patent. This week on the Friday News Update: - Some Samsung Galaxy Note 9 owners in the US can sign up to get the Android Pie beta with the new One UI right now - Project Fi, Google's US mobile network, is now Google Fi and now works on iPhones as well as more Android phones - LG have trademarked three smartphone names that suggest they're working on a folding phone - LG have also patented a smartphone with 16 cameras to take photos at different...
Published 11/30/18
Plus the Honor 10 Lite and Huawei's folding phone. This week on the Friday News Update: - The biggest Black Friday tech deals on today, including the Google Home Mini for £100 - Honor announce the Honor 10 Lite, with a red or blue gradient glass back, a waterdrop notch and the Kirin 710 for just 1399 yuan (£155/$200) - Huawei's P Smart 2019 smartphone leaks... with almost exactly the same specs as the Honor 10 Lite - A special edition of the Galaxy S10 leaks, with a 6.7" screen, six cameras...
Published 11/23/18
CORRECTION: Black Friday is actually next Friday. Sorry about that. Plus Black Friday, the Galaxy S10's processor and budget Google Pixel phones. This week on the Friday News Update: - You can get a huge discount on the Honor 9 Lite, Huawei P20 Pro and Google Pixelbook today on Black Friday in the UK - Samsung announces a premium Android flip phone, with a full keypad, a dual camera and a Snapdragon 845 for the equivalent of... £2000. Right. - Galaxy S10 features and the price and release...
Published 11/16/18
Plus Bixby Capsules and Xiaomi's launch in the UK. This week on the Friday News Update: - Samsung unveil their upcoming folding phone, a pocketable phone that can unfold into a 7" tablet, as well as new features for Bixby, a new One UI interface for Samsung phones and new phone screen designs at the Samsung Developer Conference 2018 - Google announce Android support for folding phones or Foldables and an In-App Update API which can download and install app updates while you continue to use...
Published 11/09/18
Plus the MacBook Air and Mac Mini. This week on the Friday News Update: - Apple announce a new MacBook Air, with a Retina Display, Touch ID and USB-C - The Mac Pro gets a small update with a space grey model, more RAM and storage and USB-C - Apple redesign the iPad Pro with a bezelless 11" or 12.9" ProMotion screen, Face ID and a wireless charging Apple Pencil Get every episode of the Friday News Update with the Friday News Update Alexa Flash Briefing Buy the MacBook Air (2018) (US):...
Published 11/02/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Xiaomi announce the Mi Mix 3, with dual cameras in a sliding panel at the back of the phone, enabling a 93% screen to body ratio, a high DxOMark score and up to 10GB of RAM - The Black Shark Helo gaming phone is announced, with a game controller in the box, RGB LEDs on the sides of the phone and up to 10GB of RAM - HTC open preorders for the Exodus 1, a cryptocurrency phone... that you can only buy in cryptocurrency - Misfit and Mobvoi each announce new...
Published 10/26/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - RAZER announces the Phone 2, with better cameras, wireless charging and a Chroma light that can light up when you get notifications - Samsung announces the Galaxy A9, the first phone with 4 cameras, which can do 2X zoom, wide-angle photos and background blurring - Facebook have made the Portal... a smart speaker with a camera. Yup, seriously. Get every episode of the Friday News Update with the Friday News Update Alexa Flash Briefing
Published 10/22/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Huawei announces the incredibly innovative Mate 20 Pro, with 3D facial recognition, an in-screen fingerprint sensor and reverse wireless charging, a very downgraded Mate 20, the huge 7.2" Mate 20 X with an M-Pen stylus and the rip-off Mate 20 RS, a leather backed Mate 20 Pro - Huawei also announces the not-very-smart Watch GT smartwatch with up to a month of battery life - Another Apple Event is coming on the 30th of October Get every episode of the...
Published 10/19/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Google announce the Pixel 3 and 3 XL, with a second wide-angle selfie camera plus Night Sight, Super Res Zoom and loads more tricks, the ability to answer calls for you and... that gigantic notch on the XL, plus the Pixel Stand, a wireless charger for the Pixel 3 that can act as a Google Home and can also wake you up - Google also announce their first tablet in years, the Pixel Slate, with a Chrome OS optimised for tablets, a 12.3" screen praised by...
Published 10/12/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - LG announces the V40 ThinQ, the first smartphone with five cameras, also featuring a 6.4" notched OLED screen, a Boombox Speaker and a headphone jack - The LG Watch W7 is also announced, giving you a flawed Wear OS smartwatch with physical hands for... $450?? - Microsoft update the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop and Surface Studio with 8th generation Intel processors and new black colours (excluding the Studio), and also announce the Surface Headphones,...
Published 10/05/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Oculus announces the Quest headset, a standalone VR headset with four sensors for room tracking and 6DOF, plus a Star Wars VR experience called 'Vader Immortal' for the Quest, YouTube VR for the Oculus Go and Gear VR and TV casting for the Go - Office 365 gets Microsoft Search, a universal search engine for your Office 365 files and resources, Ideas, an AI to help you make your PowerPoint or Excel spreadsheet, background blurring for Teams video chats...
Published 09/28/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Amazon announces an updated Echo Dot, Echo Show and Echo Plus with better-looking designs and improved sound quality, an Echo Sub subwoofer, the Echo Input and Echo Auto to put Alexa in more devices, plus a clock, microwave and smart plug that work with Alexa and more - GoPro announce the Hero 7 range, with the Black model featuring the new HyperSmooth video stabilization, TimeWarp timelapses and SuperShot colour improvement - OnePlus are making... a...
Published 09/21/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Apple announces the iPhone Xs and Xs Max, a 6.5" version of the Xs, both with a new gold colour, up to 512GB of storage and Depth Control - Apple also announces the cheaper £750 iPhone Xr, with most of the same features as the Xs but with 6 colours and a 720p LCD... in 2018. - The Apple Watch Series 4 is announced, with thinner bezels round a bigger screen, Fall Detection and the ability to do ECGs straight from the watch - The OnePlus 6T will have an...
Published 09/14/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Honor announce the 8X and 8X Max, with huge notched screens, powerful processors and big batteries - Motorola announce the One and One Power, with gigantic notches, dual cameras and Android One - Google updates Chrome for its 10th birthday with a handy new Omnibox, better autofilling and a Material Design revamp - The OnePlus 6T's box leaks, showing waterdrop notch and in-screen fingerprint sensor - Possible Snapdragon 855 benchmark scores leak, with...
Published 09/07/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Dell, Acer and Asus announce bezelless new laptops with Intel's updated 8th generation Core i processors - Skagen announce the Falster 2 with a fantastic design and GPS, a heart rate sensor and GPS - Google is updating Wear OS with a new swipe-based interface - B&O announce some expensive new speakers, including the drum-shaped Beosound Edge which you can roll to control the volume, plus the Beosound 1 and 2 with the Google Assistant and the Beoplay...
Published 08/31/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Xiaomi announces the POCOPHONE F1 in India, with a Snapdragon 845, 6 or 8 GB of RAM and a 4000mAh battery for the equivalent of £230 - Nokia announces the global versions of the X5 and X6, the 5.1 Plus and 6.1 Plus, with notched screens, glass backs, dual cameras and great processors for a budget price - Fitbit announce the Charge 3, with a much higher resolution touchscreen, calendar and weather apps and smartphone notifications plus Fitbit's activity...
Published 08/24/18
Sorry it's a bit late. This week on the Friday News Update: - OPPO announces the R17, the first phone with the Snapdragon 670, Gorilla Glass 6 and a very unique new shape of notch - Motorola announces the P30 in China, a nearly identical iPhone X clone with a huge notch, the Snapdragon 636 and AI dual cameras - The specs and design of the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Lite and some of the specs of the Mate 20 Pro have already been leaked - Intel could announce updated Core processors on the 1st...
Published 08/18/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Samsung have announced the Galaxy Note9, with a 4000mAh battery, new camera features and a Bluetooth S-Pen that can control the phone from metres away, plus an exclusive Fortnite skin - Samsung have also launched the Galaxy Watch with 7 day battery life, stress detection and Tizen 4.0 - Samsung have also announced their first smart speaker with Bixby, the Galaxy Home, with AKG sound, SoundSteer to point the speaker's audio at you and a touch-sensitive...
Published 08/10/18
This week on the Friday News Update: - Motorola announces the Moto Z3 mid-range phone, with a 6" bezelless AMOLED screen, a Snapdragon 835 and 5G on Verizon with Motorola's upcoming 5G Moto Mod - Samsung makes a surprise announcement of the Galaxy Tab S4, with an iris scanner, Samsung DeX on the tablet and a 7300mAh battery plus a bigger, more bezelless AMOLED screen, and the Galaxy Tab A 10.5, a cheaper version of the Tab S4 with a Snapdragon 450 and an LCD screen - Tiger Mobiles shows off...
Published 08/03/18