Inhoudsopgave van December 2025 - Tech Advisor

The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold foldable phone has been put through a popular stress test, with spectacular results. Google’s latest high-end foldable was recently put through the usual suite of torture tests by YouTube channel Jerry Rig Everything – and according to the presenter, it failed “catastrophically”. While there were no great surprises on the scratch tests (Gorilla Glass Victus 2 cover screen, aluminium frame, and alarmingly soft internal screen), the phone reacted rather alarmingly to the physical bend test. The video highlights how Google doesn’t appear to have learned from the design weakness of the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which crumpled along the antenna line nearest the hinge when serious pressure was applied. Sure enough, the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold failed at the same point. Even worse…

Although Google just put the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel 10 Pro Fold on sale, much of the news coming from the tech giant recently is about Gemini, its AI assistant. For fans of smart home, there’s good news as not only is Gemini for Home coming (you can sign up for early access now, tinyurl.com/58tuj38d) and a new Home Speaker launching next spring, but it seems a new generation of smart display is also on the way with Gemini on board. During the briefing for its new smart speaker and Nest cameras, Google’s Anish Kattukaran, director of product management for Google Home and Nest, told our sister site TechHive (tinyurl.com/yzxv72dy) that Google is “deeply committed to that category and we will have more to share next year”. Delaying the…

Price when reviewed: £439 Nubia’s RedMagic is a brand synonymous with gaming smartphones, including the impressive. RedMagic 10S Pro. But recently, it’s been dipping its toes in the tablet market. The line-up has now been added to with the compact Astra, which boasts flagship processors, an OLED display and an advanced cooling system, all within a small frame. So, is less really more? I’ve extensively tested it, and here are my detailed thoughts. DESIGN When I reviewed the RedMagic Nova gaming tablet at the start of 2025, I was impressed with the overall feel and quality of the product. However, if there was one area that I would like to have seen improvement from a design standpoint, it would be size. The 10.9-inch panel in the Nova meant that the…

Price when reviewed: £280 The Circular Ring 2 is a smart ring that isn’t satisfied with simply being an alternative to the Oura Ring 4 without the added subscription. This is a ring that wants to break new ground in terms of what a smart ring can be capable of. This the first smart ring to include an ECG sensor, with blood pressure insights and a glucose tends on the way too. This is a smart ring that doesn’t just want to make up the numbers. Circular’s previous efforts have failed to impress, however. But with uncertainty hanging over some of its rivals due to patent disputes with Oura, could Circular steal a march and become the smart ring to get instead of Oura? I’ve been wearing the Ring 2…

Google has dropped its latest line of Pixel phones for 2025, and beyond being the company’s best phones yet, they’re brimming with great features worth taking advantage of. Whether you’re upgrading or switching to Pixel for the first time, here you’ll find a shortlist of handy tips and tricks which will let you get more out of the Android 16-based experience offered up by the Pixel 10 series. With a couple of exceptions, all of these feature walkthroughs apply to the entirety of the Pixel 10 line (the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold); however, there are a couple of upgrades covered that are exclusive to Google’s new Pro models only. Read on for the full run-down. 1. TURN PRO RES ZOOM…

Some Google Pixel 10 smartphone owners are reporting app crashes following the latest software update. As Android Police reports (tinyurl.com/3r8deznb), a number of Google Pixel 10 users have been taking to internet forums over the weekend to report serious instability. Reddit user PuzzleHeadedSquid (tinyurl.com/bdcapf26) reports that: “After the October update, all apps have to started to [sic] crash randomly or just get stuck at the splash screen”. Users report receiving the “[App name] isn’t responding” message. It seems to affect a wide range of apps, including X, Spotify, and Google itself. The app crash issue appears to be affecting all Pixel 10 phones. The issue can’t be solved through the classic reboot method, though a partial solution has been found. HOW TO SOLVE THE PIXEL 10 APP CRASH ISSUE According…

Price when reviewed: £649 Last year’s Xiaomi 14T Pro impressed us with its flagshiplevel performance and features at an approachable mid-range price. Now, its successor has landed, and it’s promising more of the same. The 15T Pro gets a fresh new look, a massively upgraded telephoto camera, and it can even shoot video at 4K 120fps on the main camera. Of course, there’s a newer, faster chip inside, along with a bigger battery. On paper, it’s looking like one of this year’s best upper mid-range phones, but what’s it like to live with? I stuffed it in my pocket for the last week in an attempt to find out. DESIGN The 15T Pro has adopted a boxy design with a completely flat front and rear, along with flat side rails.…

Price when reviewed: £359 Nubia might not be as familiar as fellow Chinese brands such as Xiaomi, OnePlus or Huawei, but the company has been making plenty of decent devices for several years. You may have heard of its gaming sub-brand – RedMagic – which has been putting out some excellent smartphones and, more recently, tablets. However, Nubia now has its first tablet under its own name. But will the Pad Pro be good enough to firmly put the company’s name on the map? Here are my thoughts after testing it. DESIGN Nubia has kept things simple with the Pad Pro, so you get a unibody chassis in matt black finish (silver is also available), with squared off edges and gently rounded corners. This makes it comfortable to hold, especially…

Unless you’re a camera enthusiast, you probably take most of your photos and videos with a smartphone. And you’re not alone: according to photo printing company Max Spielmann around 92.5 percent of the estimated 4.7 billion photos are taken each day with a phone. That’s a lot of people relying on their phones to capture the world around them every single day. So, it probably goes without saying that cameras are a crucial part of modern handsets. However, image and video quality varies hugely depending on the phone you choose. Many flagship, mid-range and even budget phones can take good photos, but only a select few reach an elite level when it comes to photography and/or videography. In this article, we’re showcasing the 10 absolute best from the extensive selection…

The ultra-premium tablet battle has just been reignited. Samsung revealed its Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra in September and Apple has just hit back with a new 2025 version of the iPad Pro. On the surface, both have a lot in common – sleek designs, large displays and some of the best performance you’ll find on their respective operating systems. However, they also differ in some pretty fundamental ways, and that’s likely to affect which one you choose. The iPad Pro has plenty going for it, including M5 performance – which could well blow every Android tablet out of the water – and a range of highquality, dedicated iPad apps. But if I were deciding which one to buy, I’d go for the Tab S11 Ultra every time. Here’s why. IT’S…

Samsung could be preparing to match Google’s Pixel Drop pace with its One UI smartphone OS update schedule. The company’s forthcoming One UI 8.5 update is said to be based on Google’s second quarterly platform release, Android 16 QPR2, which could set a precedent for how the South Korean manufacturer proceeds. According to Android Authority (tinyurl.com/mry6f2x2), Samsung could be looking to make a fundamental shift in matching Google’s quarterly Android ‘Pixel Drop‘ release schedule. Most manufacturers – including Samsung, up until this point – will only update the underlying Android version once a year, rather than Google’s four times. Samsung’s shift could be big news for its customers. As the original post points out, most non-Pixel using Android users will miss out on new features like Identity Check until the…

Price when reviewed: £799 If the Motorola Razr 60 Ultra and the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 have taught us anything, it’s that foldable phone manufacturers are learning their lessons – but only very slowly. They’re the two best compact flip phones yet, but they also suffer from all of the same key flaws as before to a certain degree. Most notably, they’re both still very expensive. Last year, the Motorola Razr 50 (and before that, the Razr 40) offered a noteworthy alternative – a premiumish flip phone with a price well shy of £1,000. The Razr 60 offers more of the same, and it’s no longer such a unique proposition. The Galaxy Z Flip7 FE is now also on the market, offering a similar flip phone formula at an…

Price when reviewed: £149 The Huawei Watch Fit 4 sees the tech brand update its cheapest smartwatch, which also might be its most likeable. While it lacks the luxury watch materials of the Watch Fit 4 Pro, Watch Ultimate 2 or the richer health smarts found on the Huawei Watch 5, the Fit 4 takes plenty of features from those more expensive Huawei smartwatches. That does still make it an attractive and more affordable package. Those new features include the addition of free full colour maps, improved GPS support, new health and well-being monitoring smarts and new watch faces. I was a big fan of the Watch Fit 3 and had a good time with the pricier Watch Fit 4 Pro, so my hopes were high for the Watch Fit…

Snap, the social media company turned AR glasses-maker, has officially announced Snap OS 2.0, its next generation of smart glasses software. And after testing it out for myself at Snap’s London offices, I have high hopes for the release of their first consumer-ready smartglasses in eight years, which are set to arrive in 2026. 2016’s original Snap Spectacles marked a notable shift for what had always been a software-first company up until that point: changing the perspective from your hands to your face, and letting you capture the world and augment it back on your phone before sharing with the world. After a couple more iterations on this same idea, Snap changed tack and reimagined Spectacles for developers first. The form-factor switched from a camera on your face to a…