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Inspect-a-Gadget

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT.

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  • Acer Chromebook Plus 514

    Adrian Bridgwater 31 Mar 2025
  • I’ve been using an Acer Chromebook 11 C732LT Celeron 1.1 GHz with 32GB since I came across it on sale in a department store in the USA while on a trip to attend a technology conference. On sale for ...

  • Curve banking app on Amazfit 

    Adrian Bridgwater 26 Mar 2025
  • As someone who has never been comfortable with enabling payment on my smartphone, I’ve watched the increasing presence of people “tapping” their iPhones or Android devices in bars, restaurants and ...

  • Honor Magic7 Pro, a smartphone with an eye for AI

    Adrian Bridgwater 25 Mar 2025
  • AI is everywhere… and it’s in the Honor (stylised as HONOR) Magic7 Pro smartphone. At first take, I hadn’t been positively “looking for” AI services on my smartphone and at no point was I say ...

  • Cevaton 15.6” laptop screen extender

    Adrian Bridgwater 19 Mar 2025
  • Two laptops or one? One large-screen laptop and a Microsoft Surface? One laptop and Chromebook, or one laptop and an iPad with a keyboard, or just two laptops? Those are the choices I make every ...

  • A road-warrior kit: Dell Pro keyboard, mouse, briefcase & backpack

    Adrian Bridgwater 12 Feb 2025
  • It’s always interesting to see if a new keyboard option can make a difference to working life. After all, it’s hard to beat what is (arguably) the gold standard in the form of the MX Keys from ...

  • Amazfit T-Rex 3

    Adrian Bridgwater 05 Feb 2025
  • Santa was good to me this year, I got an Amazfit T-Rex 3 and it was a gift worth waiting for. It’s taken me a while to write this up (I know the yuletide season has passed), but it takes a while to ...

  • Envoy Pro Elektron, a no-risk disk that whisks

    Adrian Bridgwater 30 Jan 2025
  • As a grown adult, you really shouldn’t get excited about a hard disk, but I managed to get my hands on a unit that could be the answer to my needs.  To be clear, I need to work across about five ...

  • Xiaomi 14T Pro smartphone review

    Adrian Bridgwater 10 Dec 2024
  • In keeping with my end-of-year tablet update, I dovetailed my recent embrace of the Xiaomi Redmi Pad Pro with the chance to get hold of the Xiaomi 14T Pro. Having been using the same smartphone for ...

  • Xiaomi Redmi Pad Pro 

    Adrian Bridgwater 08 Nov 2024
  • As it’s Christmas (well, nearly) and I updated my Android mini tablet option last year with around this time, I decided that it was time to “go large” and get something more powerful, with a bigger ...

  • Logitech Keys To Go 2

    Adrian Bridgwater 30 Aug 2024
  • I am always looking for better (smaller) ways to work on a plane.  It’s a life mission and I’ve been through laptops, mini handhelds like the Planet Gemini (wonderful, but keyboard too small), plus ...