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To nobody's surprise, Compressor is STILL the fastest Android video compressor app

2026-08-28

Competitors have had just over 7 months to respond to Compressor, which now has almost 100,000 downloads, but after all this time, they still haven't improved.

General Software Android Video Compressor Development Creative Tools Tech

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Your ZTE phone is likely spying on you, which ZTE says is "compliant"

2026-05-31

Cheap always comes with a trade-off, and when it comes to cheap ZTE phones, that trade-off is privacy.

General Hardware Smartphones Android Tech Security China ZTE Unisoc Spreadtrum Spyware Technical

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Budget phones are so scarily good now I am writing a blog post about it

2026-05-15

Update as of May 31, 2026: ZTE devices like the one shown in this article may contain spyware. I do not recommend purchasing them. See this 10 years a...

General Hardware Smartphones Android Tech

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What is the point of smartwatches?

2026-05-14

Every single day since I got my first smartwatch in 2021, I have worn one every day. At first I thought they were cool, they've got cool gimmicks, the...

General Hardware Smartwatch Tech Google Fitbit Fitness Opinion

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Maybe I have been spoilt by modern flagship phones; I used a 6-year-old midranger for a day

2026-02-18

Phones have come a looooong way, even in just the past decade or so. Can you believe the first iPhone released in 2007? That's a whopping 19 years ago...

General Hardware Samsung Smartphones Android Comparison Tech

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Cheap action camera with 2014 sensor vs 2014 flagship smartphone (Camera Comparison)

2026-01-03

The Allwinner V3 action camera we looked at in the previous blog post had a Sony IMX175, a camera sensor from around 2014, so how does it hold up against a 2014 flagship smartphone?

General Tech Cameras Allwinner Smartphones China Samsung Android Photography Comparison