Samsung Galaxy Book Ion Complete Walkthrough: Lightweight Powerhouse for Less?

Samsung is trying really hard to come back to the PC industry. Adding Galaxy to their laptop lineup to try and maybe garner some of that brand equity from their popular phones for the newly launched laptops. Two of the latest of these laptops are the new Galaxy Book Flex and the Galaxy Book Ion which I have here. Both computers are very similar honestly with the major exception being the form factor (that maybe […]

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Marshall Monitor II Complete Walkthrough: The Rockstars Do Noise Cancelling Headphones

The most popular noise-canceling headphones that I’ve used recently all have a very minimalistic look and style–which personally I like a lot. But, I was just sent a pair of noise-canceling headphones that, well, aren’t that. These are the new Marshall Monitor II headphones and they are pretty identifiably Marshall. Since I have them though, I figured I’d try and do a complete walkthrough on them for you guys. If you aren’t familiar a complete

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Oppo Find X2 Pro Complete Walkthrough: Oppo’s Ultra

I said in my walkthrough of the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra that Samsung had decided to create a phone with the highest specs they could to try and appeal to the smaller, but very passionate demographic of creators, early adopters, etc. and that the Ultra did that, for sure. It seems they weren’t alone. This is the Oppo Find X2 Pro and as we’ll see in a sec, at least on paper, it’s trying to

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Huawei Mate XS Complete Walkthrough: Best Specs in a Folding Phone

Oh, all the phones that fold. They’re unique, they’re new, they invoke curiosity from people when they see them for the first time and frankly they bring a sense of excitement back into an arguably stagnating landscape of design in the world of phones. Now, they aren’t perfect by far, they’re expensive, they’re more fragile than our current devices, and they aren’t quite ready yet maybe for the mainstream, but honestly, they’re not made for

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What is Malware? The Most Common Types, How They Work, & How to Easily Avoid Them All

The total cost of malware in 2015 was about $500 billion dollars. In 2019, that jumped to $2 trillion, and it’s expected to hit $6 trillion in 2021. To put that into perspective, all of the US’s retail sales throughout the entire country totaled $1.14 trillion or so in 2017. The average cost of a data breach in the world in 2018 was $3.86 million (up 6.4% from the year before). Also, in the US,

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How to Use Your Surface Studio as a Monitor

I love the Surface Studio. The design feels futuristic, it’s aspect ratio is great for multitasking, the hinge and pen make it a joy to use for photo editing or just sketching, etc. The issue I have with it though, is that Microsoft should maybe just have made it a monitor you could plug into instead of an all-in-one computer. The reason I say that is because as much as I love the design, the

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Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Complete Walkthrough: Samsung’s Best Phone Yet

Samsung recently launched their new Galaxy S20 series and while we had the usual small and big versions of the new phone in the S20 and S20 Plus, Samsung also decided to throw everything they could at a newer, more expensive model–the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. Now, one may say that the S10e was replaced by the S20, the S10 replaced by the S20 Plus, and the S20 Plus was replaced by the S20 Ultra,

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Real-World Test (Battery Test & Camera Comparison)

I finally got a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip to borrow for more than 24 hours and so I decided to do a real-world test on it. In this video, I go through my normal day with the Z Flip as my main phone, check in on the battery throughout and put it up against some other devices in a camera comparison. Let’s see how it did. Thanks for watching, let me know what you think

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How to Remove the Recycle Bin from Your Desktop

Maybe it’s just me but I feel like the Recycle Bin you see by default on the desktop of any Windows computer just looks so outdated. It reminds me of a time when the computer was new and trying so hard to mimic an actual office setting squeezed down into a machine–this is your “desktop”, here is a “notepad”, if you need to throw anything away, crumbled it up and toss it into your “recycle

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Complete Walkthrough: The Modern Flip Phone

There’s a new folding phone in town. Samsung opened their latest Galaxy Unpacked event here in San Francisco with the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, essentially their take on a vertically folding phone. And, I have to admit, I kinda like it. But, Samsung sent me the device to use for a very limited time, but I figured I would try and do a complete walkthrough on it for you guys. If you’re not familiar,

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Why the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is the Future of Foldables

At Samsung’s recent unpacked event in San Francisco, we got to see the latest S20 lineup in all their glory (and I’ll be doing a complete walkthrough and real-world test on them ASAP), but the surprise (minus the ton of leaks of course) was the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip. This new foldable device folds in half length wise compared to the original Fold they released not too long ago (and rereleased shortly thereafter) that

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How to Fix a WearOS Watch Not Staying Connected to a Huawei Phone

I was getting pretty frustrated with my new WearOS watch (the Fossil Watch Gen 5 for those curious) would just keep disconnecting from my Huawei P30 Pro. It connects during the setup process but then after a while, the watch will just say it’s disconnected even if the phone shows that it is absolutely connected via Bluetooth. Turns out this little magic trick has to do with Huawei’s EMUI battery super aggressive battery management. Essentially,

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What is Night Mode? (& How It Makes Your Phone Take Much Better Photos in the Dark)

Night mode, night sight, bright night, whatever you call it, this camera mode now available on a ton of smartphones allows you to take photos in much darker environments while still getting an image that is very much usable when done. Question is, what exactly is night mode and what ridiculous sorcery does it use to see in the dark? Well in this episode of Decodr, where I explain a new piece of technology each

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