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But the latest AirPods are a brilliant choice that you can wear all day in comfort and let you carry on with your day (including those calls) without popping them in and out every few minutes.When shopping for the best gifts for anyone, the best tech gifts for women always win big.
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They were overshadowed over Black Friday last month, since the technically superior Apple AirPods Pro were widely discounted to not much more than the £169 price.
The greatest strength of that is also the greatest weakness: you can’t hear much around you, particularly your own voice, which makes them decidedly odd when using them for video calls.īest bet if that’s an issue for you are the Apple AirPods 3 rd generation. What if you don’t want to block the world out, though? It’s not a silly question., All the above have something in common: they use those rubbery little in-ear things, which create a seal with your ear, massively improving sound quality and (in particular bass notes). If you want to block out the rest of the world’s endless noise and revel in concert-quality sound, then Bose’s £249 QuietComfort Earbuds are basically as good as these things get. They also work brilliantly with Google Translate, offering near-simultaneous translations it’s as close as you’ll get to the Babelfish of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame with 2021 technology.
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Apart from that though, here’s our two-penneth.įor those keen on wearing wireless earbuds while exercising, then the Google Pixel Buds A-Series at £99 have very good sound quality and a rock-solid Bluetooth connection (hugely important when on the move) and have a reassuring little arm which fixes them solidly in your ear. Most of us prefer not to look like we’re on a Balearic nightclub stage while listening to music or making Zoom calls, however, and that’s why earbuds have taken over the earth.īut which ones should you get? The choices are near endless, and considering how easy they are to lose then a £20 pair such as these or a tied-together pair like this are absolutely what more careless readers should go for. For a similar vibe without the need for a mortgage extension, the Marshall Major IVs are a real favourite, look glorious, have incredible battery life and currently just £79 at John Lewis.
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Especially the Apple HomePod Mini and the Echo dot.įor music pumped direct into your ears, however, you can spend a small fortune on a pair of headphones if you’re a professional DJ or a quality-crazed audiophile (is there any other type?) then that probably makes sense - for those people, headsets such as the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay HX headphones, at almost £450, are the way to go. If you’re looking to listen to music, don’t miss our piece on the best smart speakers - they’re a bit creepy, sure, but they work really well.
The MX Keys Mini is also rock-solid, with rubber feet and enough weight to stop it sliding around in use. the depth that they sink down when pressed) that it feels more like tapping on a touchscreen than typing on a traditional keyboard. I now dread using the built-in keyboard on my work laptop, whose keys look pretty but have so little ‘travel’ (i.e. Having been using this dinky Bluetooth keyboard one for a few weeks, I’d say they’ve nailed it again: pressing the keys is as joyful and moreish as, ooh, chewing a jelly baby. To get something better, you’ll want to get a keyboard from a decent manufacturer such as Logitech, who’ve a hard-won reputation for making superb keyboards and mice that feel just right. You can buy an external keyboard for a few pounds the problem is that it’ll look and feel as if it didn’t even cost that much. Nokia T20, from £179 Bluetooth keyboard MX Keys Mini
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Plus you’re not paying for Jeff’s new spaceboots. Don’t rule it out though: at some point it’ll probably be fixed via an update, and both iPlayer and YouTube work fine.
That might not sound like a big deal, but it really is very fuzzy compared to what you’ll get with most devices considering that watching Netflix is hugely important to lots of tablet buyers, that’s close to an unforgivable flaw.
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It does, however, have one big disadvantage: at the moment, due to a technical limitation, you can only watch the big streaming services Netflix (and Disney+, and Prime Video) in SD, aka ‘standard definition’, which is what your TV would have had in the 1980s. Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardeners.
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