Leigh Geary

Earlier we posted news on the new Yotaphone 2. It’s just been formally unveiled and we can clarify the price – a whacking £555. You can buy it from yotaphone.com and there’s going to be a pop-up store just off Brick Lane in Shoreditch tonight at 6.30PM. Inside the phone you’ll find some pretty good specs. It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 2.2GHz quad-core CPU with 2GB RAM and 32GB of storage. Around back there’s an 8 megapixel camera (I know, I expected a bit more too) and up front there’s a 2 megapixel shooter, but that rear one can be used for selfies thanks to “YotaMirror”.

Everything seems to charge off a USB port doesn’t it? Your phone, your tablet, your fitness band, your smartwatch, your Bluetooth speakers and more. There you are, with chargers cluttering up the place and every socket dedicated to housing one.

The Acer Liquid Leap is a waterproof personal fitness tracker which connects to your phone via Bluetooth and keeps an eye on your movements and sleeping patterns

You may remember our look into the world of virtual network operators, which can offer a great alternative to the main networks. MVNO’s, as they are known, use one of the original “big four” for connectivity but the pricing, plans, services and branding are all very different.

It’s still in beta, but it’s hope for those who can’t install the relevant Skype client. This should be good news for those wanting Skype on a Chromebook, but to be honest we’ve already sorted that oneand I couldn’t get the Skype for Web beta working on my old beat-up Chromebook just yet because I don’t have the invite.

There’s a wide range of cases out there but this one is definitely geared towards the kids, or perhaps those who want a canvas for quickly doodling ideas.

We’ve seen various solutions to this over the years and recently reviewed a credit-card sized solution called the Travelcard Charger. Now there’s another one, which is a tad cheaper at £19.99. The Onaji Pawa is a card-sized solution with a wafer-thin battery inside.

Oppo are on a roll today. Their new flagship, the N3, has just been formalized and now we’ve got this, the Oppo R5. It’s made using “reinforced industrial grade aluminum alloy” and it’s also hand-crafted in ceramic too. However, the big selling point here is the thickness – or should I say “slimness”. It’s just 4.85mm and Oppo have claimed it to be the slimmest smartphone in the world. Currently, the slimmest smartphone is the KAZAM Tornado 348, at 5.15mm. The R5 beats that by quite a margin.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this because, if we take a look at the PC market as an example, so much has changed recently. Many consumers are choosing to purchase a tablet or Chromebook instead of a desktop PC and, unless they use Windows at work, we’re probably looking at the classic Windows flag and Microsoft logo a lot less than we used to.