Six-second ads are appearing on Snapchat, and they can’t be skipped.  Snapchat began testing the new ad format — first spotted by AdAge — in the US on Monday. These unskippable video ads, aka commercials, are only running in Snapchat Shows, not across the entire app. This means that you won’t see the ads if you’re simply watching …

It’s a brave move to challenge Apple’s iPhone X, particularly when the phones you’re putting up against it cost less than a fifth of the price. But that’s the challenge Huawei’s Honor 7A and 7C throw at the iPhone X’s feet. These two budget handsets are equipped with face unlock technology the company claims will recognise your face faster than …

Young audiences in Britain are choosing online entertainment over the BBC . In its 2018 Annual Plan, the broadcaster has acknowledged that young people aged 16-24 in the UK are spending more time watching Netflix than all of the BBC’s programming combined, including iPlayer. It’s not just TV that the BBC is losing out on, but audio too. As the …

There’s no escaping the fact that the Asus Zenfone 5, and the 5Z, look almost identical to Apple’s iPhone X. There’s a copycat “notch” at the top of the screen, the edges are curved metal and the rear dual camera is in an awfully familiar portrait position. (Huawei’s rumored P20 and the Leagoo S9 will also give you iPhone X …

Alongside the flagship Sirocco and reissue of the classic 8110, Nokia has a pair of midrange Android phones that combine neat metal designs with low prices. The Nokia 6 is the cheapest of the two, and is very much just a bumped-up version of the Nokia 6 that the company released last year. The design is much the same, although …

Sony appears to have packed its latest flagships, the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact, with every bit of tech it could find lying around its R&D lab. The 5.7-inch XZ2 is the bigger of the two phones, but while the 5-inch Compact may be smaller, it still shares almost all of the same key specs. Wireless charging is finally available …

Read our full review of the Nokia 8 Sirocco, the latest Nokia phone from HMD Global.  The Nokia 8 may have been a decent all-rounder, but it didn’t have the visual pizzazz that a flagship needs. With the 8 Sirocco, Nokia seems to have learned its lesson. This new flagship may share the same numeral as its predecessor, but it’s a …

I’m a professional photographer with more than 15 years of experience. Still, I was daunted when I took a £54,000 camera system out for a photoshoot test drive. I normally shoot on Canon 6D which costs £1,500, $1,699 or about AU$2,570 with a lens. On this occasion however I’d be using the Phase One XF IQ3 Achromatic — a 100-megapixel, black-and-white-only camera with …

A new Amazon Alexa skill makes finding out your critical flight information that bit easier.  The Heathrow Airport skill allows you to ask questions about your flight going into or out of Heathrow to your Alexa-enabled device and have the answers you need helpfully read back to you. The skill has access to information on over 1,300 flights per day, …

A new year, a new OnePlus variant. This time, it’s the OnePlus 5T, which has been given a fancy new lick of white paint.  The sandstone white colour, as it’s known, also brings a matte texture to the phone. It’s designed to mimic the smooth matte feel of earlier OnePlus handsets. While I can’t vouch for the similarity, it certainly …