Reviews

Every backup is a promise. You’re telling the version of yourself who loses a phone, or deletes the wrong folder, that everything will be fine. Most of us break that promise without noticing, because the “backup” is a single external drive in a drawer. I review phones for a living. Camera samples and screen recordings …

Samsung has kept the Ultra’s design largely unchanged from last year. You still get a 14.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, a 5.1 mm-thin body, and an 11,600 mAh battery. The main upgrades include the Dimensity 9500, Wi-Fi 7, four-channel spatial audio, and One UI 9 based on Android 17. With prices starting at ₹1,49,999 in …

Dual basket air fryers fix a simple problem. With one basket, I’m stuck cooking just one thing at a time. Philips joined this category after Ninja, and I spotted that in a few interface quirks. But once it landed on my counter, only the cooking mattered. Here, Philips nails it. I treated the NA154/00 like …

Sonos faces a problem most audio brands would envy. Its speakers are already so good that the hardware alone rarely surprises me anymore. The new Sonos Play proves that point. On its own, it’s a solid portable speaker: IP67-rated, with a replaceable battery and reliable sound. Normally, I’d call that decent but nothing special. But …

Premium tablets in India have a short guest list this October, and most of them wear a half-cut fruit logo. Samsung strolls in with the Galaxy Tab S12+, a 12.6-inch slab that chases the dream netbooks promised us back in the day: a proper laptop stand-in without the heft. It brings an AMOLED screen, a …

Most soundbars force a trade-off. You pick either a sleek design with average sound or immersive audio that clutters your living room with cables and bulky speakers. Sony’s Bravia Theatre Bar 7 takes a different approach. It uses a modular 5.1.2 system. You get the Bar 7 soundbar, plus wireless Sub 8 and Rear 8 …

A pair of earphones that doesn’t go inside your ear. The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 is a pair of open-ear headphones largely aimed at runners and athletes. This is a pair of earphones that uses bone conduction to enhance audio, doesn’t fit in your ears but sits comfortably on them, and it has a build …

Shopping for a flagship in India this October feels like browsing a jeweler’s window before Diwali: everything gleams, and nobody is handing out freebies. A global memory-chip crunch has pushed phone prices north across the board, with even Samsung’s Galaxy S26 getting a price hike months after launch and the new iPhone 18 Pro models …

The OPPO Enco X series is finally back in India after a long time. OPPO has consistently delivered some solid options with its Enco Air and Enco Buds series, and now the flagship Enco X lineup is making a return with the Enco X4. I’ve been using the OPPO Enco X4 for a little over …

Every few months, a new mid-range phone shows up, promising to fix the one thing everyone actually cares about: battery anxiety. Most of them exaggerate. The Oppo K14 Plus 5G, in my three weeks with it, mostly doesn’t. The phone is built around a single, deliberate bet: buyers in the ₹30,000 range should have a …

I have been using the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max as my primary phone for over a week now. In that time it has handled regular daily work, taken tons of photos, video shooting, and normal mixed use. The phone does not feel like an incremental update. OPPO has taken the strengths of the previous …

The OPPO Find X10 Pro Max takes an unusual approach to smartphone photography. Instead of reserving its highest-resolution sensor for the main camera and making compromises elsewhere, OPPO has equipped all three rear cameras with 200 MP sensors. That includes a 13 mm ultra-wide and a 3X telephoto that can focus as close as 10 …

3D printing in India has moved beyond the hobbyist stage, and the Bambu Lab A2L proves it. Earlier budget printers made you handle manual bed leveling, PID tuning, and slicer settings before you got anything usable. The A2L flips that script. The machine calibrates itself. I just print. It builds on the Bambu Lab A1 …

Skoda Slavia is one car that is sort of keeping sedans alive and breathing in India. Despite the whole market going towards SUVs, Skoda and Volkswagen (VAG group) have been bullish on offering mid-segment sedans like the Skoda Slavia and the Volkswagen Virtus. This year, we got our first-ever update on the Skoda Slavia since …

We don’t get station waggons in India. But the BMW X3 comes close, not because it’s a big car (it’s quite small, to be frank), but because of the styling, because of the use case that it caters to, because of the way it drives, and because of its surprisingly good loading capacity. Either way, …

The Honda Amaze is a compact sedan that stays under 4 metres in length, and in India, it is mostly sold under the 10 lakh price point. That is a segment where value for money matters a lot. Buyers want a sedan that is easy to live with, easy on the pocket, and loaded with …

The V-series is vivo’s camera line under the X-series. The V80 keeps that job and adds OriginOS 7, a bigger battery, and a 144 Hz panel. It is one of the first phones, and the first V-series phone in India, with OriginOS 7 out of the box. I used the V80 for about two weeks …

ColorOS 17 just hit open beta in India. The update adds a Living Clock lock screen, a translucent Luminous look, and an AI Agent Mode that sorts photos and files on the device. OPPO says app launch stability is up by 55% and the system frees up 18% more RAM for apps. I’ve broken down …

vivo has officially unveiled OriginOS 7, its Android 17-based software skin, and we’ve already started exploring it on the vivo X300 Pro. This is a much bigger redesign than a typical yearly software update, with changes across the Control Center, icons, widgets, lock screen, multitasking and system animations. The biggest change is the new dynamic …

The HOT 70 Pro 5G is Infinix’s attempt to make the HOT series more than a straightforward value-focused lineup. The Active Matrix Cube, Dynamic Shine finishes, Sony main camera sensor, IP68 rating, and feature-heavy software give it several things to talk about at ₹25,000. I’ve used the phone for about a week to see how …