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Medion Guardian X10: New gaming laptop on sale at Aldi from November 12th

After the discounter Aldi had already had some gaming PCs and notebooks on offer in the past, the retailer is now on 12. November 2020 with the Medion Guardian X 10 again. The laptop has a 15, 6-inch IPS full HD display and 144 Hz also has an Intel Core i7 10750 H processor. In addition, a GeForce RTX 2070 with a total of 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM is used. When it comes to RAM, Medion uses the Guardian X 10 32 GB DDR4-RAM with up to 3. 200 MHz. The size of the PCIe SSD is 1 TB.

The new Aldi gaming laptop also has Intel’s WiFi 6 AX 201 and Bluetooth 5.1. Two Dolby ATMOS Gaming certified speakers ensure the right sound when playing. The mechanical keyboard has an RGB backlit with a total of 16, 7 million colors.

According to the manufacturer, the battery life is 6.5 hours due to the 6-cell Li-Polymer battery. The Medion laptop uses Windows in the home version as the operating system. A free trial version from Microsoft 365 and a free month of Xbox Game Pass are also included. The Steam client is also pre-installed at the factory.

The Guardian X 10 next to two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A and a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A and a Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C interface. An HDMI 2.0 connection is also available. A card reader for SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards can also be used. In addition to WLAN, an RJ 45 LAN connection can also be used to connect to the home network. The dimensions are 35, 96 cm x 2.3 cm x 24, 41 cm (W x H x D). The total weight including the battery is around 2.2 kg.

The new Aldi gaming laptop will only be available in the retailer’s online shop for a price of around 1 551 Euro.

TechStage | Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 + 5G in the test: What a board!

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With the Galaxy Tab S7 +, Samsung has been breaking through the 11 – Customs limit and only packs high-end technology including OLED display and pen in the delivery box. In the test we show what the top tablet can do.

Apart from a few exceptions with some well over 10 inches most manufacturers of Android tablets are on 10, 1 inch agreed as the standard display size. Samsung breaks with this “normality” and gives its top tablet Galaxy Tab S7 + a whopping 12, 4 inches at high resolution and in OLED quality, the manufacturer also puts everything in the tablet that can be found on the high-end shelf in terms of technology. Owners of an iPad Pro will rub their eyes: The stylus called the S-Pen is included in the Galaxy Tab S7 + despite the tablet’s already lower price, so the best prerequisites for top marks in the test – right?

Design What a board! That’s the first thing that came to mind when unpacking the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 + and that’s why this thought made it into the headline. Because Samsung combines the huge display, which takes up almost the entire front thanks to its evenly narrow bezels, with just under 6 millimeters thin aluminum housing. Overall, the Galaxy Tab looks fragile and extremely high quality at the same time. Although the tablet can be twisted easily (no wonder given the slim design), the device still makes a fairly robust impression, provided that you handle it properly. The monolithic construction increases the fascinating impression even more. The manufacturer chooses a very angular design language, but the device is not sharp-edged. Only the size of 266 × 185 Millimeters and the resulting high weight of 575 grams makes long-term use in the hand difficult. In the long term, it is therefore advisable to use it lying on the table or in the optionally available keyboard cover.

When lying on flat surfaces, the camera unit protruding around a millimeter on the back hardly disturbs, due to the sheer surface of the tablet, the model is largely wobbly when operated. The entire back is made of aluminum. On the sides, antenna strips perfectly integrated into the metal can be seen as a design feature. A long black strip of glass extends from the camera, which serves as a docking and charging option for the stylus included in the scope of delivery. It is slightly flattened on one side and is held in place magnetically when it is correctly attached. A briefly shown on the display shows the charging status of the pen called S-Pen.

The holding force is strong enough that the stylus does not fall off by accidentally jostling or shaking the tablet. Nevertheless, this type of storage gives the impression of being intended for in between. An integration of the S-Pen as in the current Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra (test report) is because of the thin design of the tablet and the stylus in normal pen size and thickness but not otherwise possible. Despite the unibody of the Galaxy Tab S7 +, the tablet is not waterproof and dustproof.

All pictures from the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 + in the test (28 Photos) Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 +

Display In addition to the ultra-thin design, the huge display is the most impressive. That is next to the sheer size of 11, 4 inches especially on the Brilliance that the panel exudes. Colors are shown brightly, but without the candy look of earlier OLEDs and the contrasts with the abyssal black are inspiring. This is basically the same with good smartphone displays, on over 12 Zoll, it is even more impressive. In addition, Samsung gives the screen a refresh rate of 120 Hertz donated. In combination with the strong hardware, moving content is displayed absolutely fluently – great. In contrast to the manufacturer’s smartphones, it works there s not only with reduced Full HD resolution, but also the full 2800 × 1752 Pixels of the Tab-S7 + display. By the way, this brings up the screen 257 Pixels per inch – less than a smartphone, of course, but enough to be considered sharp because of the usually greater distance to the eye.

The viewing angle stability is particularly successful. Even from very flat viewing angles there are no noticeable color changes and the brightness remains almost the same. In the end, there are only two limitations: the reflective Gorilla Glass 3 surface of the panel and the brightness. Both prevent effective outdoor use. The brightness, which – at least in automatic mode – is otherwise more of a parade discipline of Samsung’s OLED screens, even represents a weak point: Even in bright ambient light, we were only able to 450 measure cd / m2. That is little for a top-quality product, especially since Samsung is already at the 1000 – Candela mark scratches. The manufacturer is thus banning the Galaxy Tab S7 + to the home office – terrace or park are largely denied. Too bad. One reason for this could be the power consumption, which in such a thin tablet (and correspondingly limited space for a powerful battery) with such a large screen quickly becomes a problem.

Camera Traditionally, the cameras on the back of a tablet are of little use and the front camera becomes the main camera. It’s not that bad with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 +, but users shouldn’t expect too much. Compared to a good smartphone camera that Samsung uses in its top models such as Samsung Galaxy S 20 Ultra (test report) or Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra (test report) is missing the 13 – Megapixel main lens and the only 5 megapixel wide-angle lens for image sharpness and richness of detail. At first glance, this is hardly noticeable in the full screen view, especially since the image dynamics are decent and image noise is kept within limits. On closer inspection, however, fine structures always appear a bit washed out.

The camera is fine for a tablet The wide angle is almost surprisingly good – Despite its low resolution, it also ensures acceptable image quality, even if distortion and chromatic aberration are visible towards the edges. As the light decreases, the image quality of all lenses quickly drops to the point of being unusable – a typical tablet problem. The front camera takes pictures with 8 megapixels and is well suited for video chats with up to 4K / 30 possible are. Neither the less than optimal image sharpness nor the somewhat weaker contrasts compared to the main camera on the back are noticeable. The selfie camera does a satisfactory job and offers many software features.

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Furnishing At In terms of hardware, Samsung builds all kinds of cutting-edge technology into the Galaxy Tab S7 +. This is how the tablet is operated by a Snapdragon 700 + powered, Qualcomm’s fastest chipset currently. It is combined with 8 GB LPDDR5 RAM – it is fast, but 8 GB are no longer state of the art. Some gaming smartphones such as the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel even come with 16 GByte therefore. A real difference to the 8 GB of the Galaxy Tab S7 + should only be noticed in exceptional cases, so the choice of RAM size is not a real point of criticism. Especially since content in interaction with the 90 – Hz display can be displayed absolutely smoothly and the tablet never gave the impression of reaching its performance limits at any point during the test.

The Tab S7 + is also really fun in games That confirms that Result of around 12. 500 Points in PCmark Work 2.0 – that is significantly less than with some smartphones with the same chipset, but still a very solid value. The good performance is also evident in games such as PUBG-Mobile, in which the tablet offers a smooth display even with the highest graphic settings. This is very impressive on the large display and offers strong immersion, but the tablet becomes a bit heavy in the long run. Various solutions, as we have summarized in our guide for perfect mobile gaming, provide a remedy. However, users are welcome to do without the Bluetooth speakers mentioned there. The four loudspeakers on both sides of the display deliver loud and clear sound that is even seasoned with sufficient depth – it just doesn’t get much better with such a thin housing. This also makes it easy to watch series that are really fun with the brilliant display. The stylus included in the scope of delivery is great, because its natural size makes it easy to hold. The latency when writing or drawing is kept within tight limits. Thanks to the large range of apps such as Autodesk Sketchbook, great works of art can be created – provided that the user has mastered it.

The stylus only works really safe on the go with the expensive keyboard cover While the stylus shouldn’t be lost so quickly when charging thanks to the strong magnetic hold, it still looks a bit out of place when attached to the back of the tablet. It is different with the optional keyboard cover. This not only has a good full keyboard including a complete row of numbers, F-keys, arrow keys and even a touchpad, but its cover for the back also encloses the stylus. Users can easily free it from its transport position by folding down a small part of the back. In addition, the steplessly angled lower half of the cover allows the display to be set up at any angle even above 90 degrees beyond. The cover is round 150 Euro not exactly cheap, but in combination with another monitor with features such as Dex (wireless or for less latency via USB 3.2) it is a real PC replacement for simple office applications.

We didn’t like the fingerprint sensor that much. It is hidden in the display and is well positioned due to its placement near the edge, but did not work as accurately in the test as its counterparts in Samsung smartphones and the unlocking speed should also be a bit higher. With the internal storage, however, there is nothing to complain about. The 256 GB of UFS 3.1 memory in the S7 + tab is quite fast and can be reached with 19. 900 Points in PCmark Storage a decent result. There is nothing to complain about with the rest of the hardware either. A look at the table shows what goes with it.

Samsung still relies on Android for the software 10 – especially with tablets, a comparatively slow update supply is unfortunately normal. Currently Android is included 11 not yet found. Tablets with Android 07 we have listed here (advice). The security patch for the Tab S7 + is from October and is sufficiently up-to-date at the time of the test in early November.

Battery pack 10. 0 90 mAh is provided by the battery in the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 +, which sounds like a really good value in such a thin tablet. 14 Samsung specifies hours of runtime for its top tablet – but without exactly to define how they are composed. However, this information cannot have come from a realistic scenario. This contradicts both our impression that we were able to make of the tablet during the test period and the PCmark battery test. With a fixed brightness of 185 cd / m2 the tablet came here only around 7.5 hours – compared to many other devices that is not much. The predecessor Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 (test report) at least managed over 11 Hours.

However, the new model offers 120 Hz, experience shows that in this scenario it eats up around 1 to 2 hours of running time – even then the Tab S7 + wouldn’t be a runtime wonder, however. This is where the extremely thin design of the top tablet has a negative impact. Samsung could have provided compensation elsewhere, but does not even try: when charging. This takes over 3 hours with the Galaxy Tab S7 +, which is also possible with a battery beyond the 10. 00 0 mAh more quickly. That doesn’t work wirelessly with the Tab S7 +.

Price The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 + is available in black, silver and bronze. Different memory configurations are missing, users can only choose between the wifi-only variant for 954 Euro (RRP) and the 5G version for 1149 Select Euro (RRP). The recommended keyboard cover costs just under 150 euros in the RRP.

Main difference to the cheaper Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 (without the plus name suffix): 5G is not available for this, and an IPS LCD is used instead of the OLED .

Conclusion The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 + is a top-of-the-line tablet that we see designed for use in our own four walls. Then neither the somewhat dark display nor the not quite as long-lasting battery matter. Instead, the chic device scores with a brilliant display, terrific performance and elegant design and looks good on any desk or sofa. The included stylus completes the overall package. Thanks to the corresponding app offer and the expensive but excellent keyboard covers, the tablet should even do a good job in home office use – if that’s not enough, you should take a look at our guide to homeschooling solutions (guide).

Overall, the Tab S7 + is a great piece of technology, but it also has its price – even if it is lower than the direct competitor iPad Pro. If you don’t want to spend that much, you should take a look at the predecessor Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 (test report), which is now much cheaper.

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Razer Book 13: Lightweight 16:10 notebook with two Thunderbolt 4s

Razer has presented its most compact and lightest notebook from the 2018 generation. If Razer has previously only offered models with a gaming focus, the manufacturer is promoting the book 13 explicitly as an office notebook. As a result, it comes without an independent (GeForce) graphics chip, instead an Xe graphics unit in Intel’s Tiger Lake U combined processor takes over 3D representations.

The Book 13 falls with a weight of 1, 34 kilograms and a height of 15, 2 mm slightly lighter and flatter than the gaming brother Blade Stealth 13 – in the latter there is an optional GeForce GTX 1650 Ti. Razer also breaks with the tradition of exclusively using Core i7 CPUs: The entry-level configuration of the Book 13 relies on the Core i5- 1135 G7 with lower clock frequencies and less level 3 cache than the Core i7 – 1165 G7.

16: 10 – Display The 13, 4 inch display – the viewing angle of 178 Grade speaks for IPS panels – represents in 16: 10 – Format optional 1920 × 1200 or 3840 × 2400 pixels. The higher-resolution version can handle touch inputs and is protected by anti-reflective Gorilla Glass 6. The hardware sits in a brightly anodized aluminum housing.

Users can use the Razer Book 13 Peripherals and monitors via two Thunderbolt 4 ports in the form of USB-C ports, a USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 GBit / s ) Connect type A, HDMI 2.0 and an audio jack. The notebook transmits wirelessly in the Wi-Fi 6 network (WLAN 802. 11 ax) and with Bluetooth 5.1. A card reader can handle micro SD cards.

Razer Book 13 (10 Photos) (Image: Razer) From 1200 Euro can be pre-ordered The cheapest configuration for 1300 Euro can be pre-order via Razer’s own store and should be from 30. November 2020. With 8 GByte LPDDR4X – 3840 – RAM (dual-channel) and one 256 GByte small PCI-Express SSD, it seems comparatively expensive. For this, every display is calibrated at the factory. The version with Core i7 – 1165 G7 instead of Core i5 – 1135 G7 and 16 GByte RAM follows for 1700 Euro. Ultra HD touch screen and 512 GByte SSD cost 2000 Euro.

So far, Razer only offered the first Blade Stealth 13 from the year 2018 without an independent graphics chip in all configurations. The manufacturer still advertised the notebook for gaming – but in combination with an external graphics card housing. With the successors, only the entry-level configurations do without a separate GPU.

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heise + | Wiz: Smart lighting system without a gateway

Philips’ Hue lighting system needs hardware that mediates between ZigBee lights and the home network. With the competition from Wiz, everything works directly via WiFi.

The French company Wiz has been offering networked light sources that use the WLAN standard in the 2.4 GHz band for some time. Sales in Germany are now starting. Wiz was bought by the lighting specialist Signify, which is also the new home of the Hue system after it was spun off from the Philips Group. The systems from Wiz and Hue therefore belong to the same stud, but have completely different genes.

The range of retrofit lamps is extensive: Wiz has lamps for socket types E 27, E 14 and GU 10 in almost all variations on offer: warm white fixed, combined warm / cold white lamps, RGB lamps and various filament lamps in a retro look. Accessories include a switchable socket, a motion detector and a remote control. We tested motion detectors and remote controls – together with three E 27 – lamps.

The motion detector looks a bit cheap. Every detected movement is signaled by a blue flickering LED next to the movement sensor, so that you inevitably look up at it. While the two E 27 he lamps with plastic diffuser with their adhesive residues in the same notch, the noble filament lamp with glass bulb stands out positively. The Wiz A 67 / E 26 is significantly more voluminous than an ordinary light bulb and is good with a luminous flux of around 2000 Lumen as a replacement for a 100 -Watt lightbulb.

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Playstation 5: The next generation of gaming

Heise online has already been in the next generation of games for two weeks: Tests with the Playstation 5 show a powerful game console with an outstanding gamepad. The PS5 overshadows its predecessors primarily with a massive increase in performance, as our detailed review of the PS5 on heise + shows. The SSD in particular pays off straight away: Menus and switching between apps and games become faster, loading times become shorter.

Both variants of the PS5 – the 500 – Euro version differs differ from the 400 -Euro version only through a built-in Blu-ray drive – come with a built-in NVMe SSD. She especially shows off games that Sony has optimized for the new architecture. Astro’s Playroom and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales plays the Playstation 5 with no noticeable loading times, while Miles Morales on the PS4 is about 20 for seconds staring at a classic loading screen.

Test meeting for Playstation 5 from heise online.

But other games still need a while on the PS5: The loading time of Red Dead Redemption 2 drops from about one minute (PS4) to 40 seconds (PS5 ), heise online also found similar values for The Last of Us Part 2. A function with which you can quickly switch back and forth between different games without losing game progress is missing, however. Also problematic: Only 695 GByte of 825 GB SSD can be used for games.

Old games, new silences If the Playstation 5 is standing, the stand can be screwed on. The console and stand are a bit wobbly when lying down.

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Like the new Xbox When starting consoles, the Playstation 5 relies primarily on games that have already been released for the Playstation 4. Such titles run better especially when developers optimize them for the new generation. Then players can look forward to additional effects such as ray tracing and higher frame rates. Thanks to the HDMI 2.1 interface, the PS5 supports up to 120 FPS at 4K resolution. Titles with previously unstable frame rates such as Dark Souls 3 and Final Fantasy XV benefit directly from the increased performance of the PS5 and appealed to you in our tests 60 – FPS limit often out.

The fact that the Playstation 5 already plays better, especially when there are already published titles, is also due to the lower volume: heise online was only able to measure around 0.4 sone during gaming this is hardly noticeable at a typical distance from the sofa. This is a huge difference, especially when compared to the noisy PS4 Pro. The drive of the 448 Euro expensive However, the disc version still made a lot of noise and the not always stable base sometimes gave off noisy vibrations on the shelf. The PS5 was tested up to 60 Degree warm, that is not extraordinarily hot.

The gamepad makes the difference The star of the new PS5 is the gamepad: The dualsense controller: It has been redesigned Equipped with vibration motors that enable extremely precise force feedback. Different surfaces feel very different in the hand due to the subtle vibrations: Snow, water, sand, all of this can only be differentiated in the pre-installed exclusive game Astro’s Playroom based on the controller feeling. The force feedback of other gamepads just feels clumsy in direct comparison. The variable shoulder buttons (triggers) L2 and R2, whose resistance games can adapt to the current in-game situation, are also really good. This brings a breath of fresh air into the game and can also work with an update on games that were originally published for Playstation 4.

The gamepad is the main reason why the Playstation 5 conveys a little more next-gen atmosphere than the Xbox Series consoles, which are primarily defined by the hardware upgrade. Technically and externally, however, the PS5 is not completely convincing: The Xbox is a bit stronger and makes a more robust impression.

The launch range of the Playstation 5 is still a bit thin, with Astro’s Playroom, Marvel’s Spider- Man and the remaster of Demon’s Souls are at least a few interesting games available. The upgrade is already worthwhile for PS4 owners if, in addition to these new games, they also value improvements to old titles and want to get rid of the booming PS4 noise machine in the living room. The console will appear internationally on 12. November, but will not be available in Germany until 19. November offered.

The complete test with all measurement results, thermal images and other findings can be found on heise +:

Consoles in comparison: Technical data Technical specifications Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Pro Xbox Series X CPU architecture / cores × clock AMD Zen 2/8 × 3.5 GHz AMD Jaguar / 8 × 2.1 GHz AMD Zen 2/8 × 3.8 GHz (3, 66 GHz Multi-Core) Working memory / connection 12 GByte GDDR6 / 256 Bit (448 GByte / s) 8 GByte GDDR5 + 1 GByte DDR3 / 256 Bit (218 GByte / s) 16 GByte GDDR6 / bis 320 Bit (10 GByte with 500 GByte / s + 6 GByte with 336 GByte / s GPU architecture / computing power (theor .) AMD RDNA 2 / 10, 3 TFLOPS AMD GCN 4 / 4.2 TFLOPS AMD RDNA 2 / 12, 5 TFLOPS GPU clock / processing units (CU) 2.2 GHz / 36 0.9 GHz / 36 1.8 GHz / 52 internal memory / capacity SSD (PCIe Gen 4, NVMe) / 825 GByte HDD with 5400 RPM / 1 TByte SSD (PCIe Gen 4, NVMe) / 1 TByte For User freely usable 695 GByte 865 GByte 820 GByte optical drive ✓ (UHD-Blu-ray) / Digital Edition: – ✓ (Blu-ray) ✓ (UHD Blu-ray ) Video outputs / inputs 1 × HDMI 2.1 / – 1 × HDMI 2.0b / – 1 × HDMI 2.1 / – USB ports 3 × USB 3.2 Gen 2 (1 × type C, front, 2 × type A, rear), 1 × USB 2.0 (Type A, front) 3 × USB 3.1 (type A, 2 × front, 1 × rear) 3 × USB 3.2 Gen 1 (type A, 1 × front, 2 × rear) Memory expansion (without USB) ✓ / M.2 (internal) ✓ / SATA (internal) ✓ / proprietary (back) Network connections / WLAN 1 × Gigabit Ethernet / Wi-Fi 6 (801. 11 ax) 1 × gigabit -Ethernet / Wi-Fi 5 (695 . 11 ac) 1 × Gigabit Ethernet / Wi-Fi 5 ( 801. 11 ac) Bluetooth ✓ (Bluetooth 5.1) ✓ (Bluetooth 4.0, LE) – other connections – S / PDIF, AUX (camera) – Dimensions (W × H × D) 104 mm × 390 mm × 260 mm (standing) 260 mm × 55 mm × 328 mm 150 mm × 300 mm × 150 mm (standing ) Power pack (max. Power) internal (350 Watt / Digital Edition: 340 Watt) internal (310 Watt) internal (315 Watt) (dahe)

Best smart bulbs and lights 2020: Philips Hue, Ikea, Osram bulbs and more

(Pocket-lint) – Having a smart home isn’t just about clever appliances or smartphone-controlled heating, you can also get clever lights too. That doesn’t just mean smartphone control, but can also sort you out with all kinds of other great features.

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You switch lights on or off everyday and they can play an essential part in creating an ambience in a room. Some smart lighting solutions enable you to recreate the colours within a particular image, while other solutions just mean you don’t need to get up off the sofa to turn the lights off.

Best of all, these smart bulbs will almost always be a big upgrade on your old bulbs in terms of energy efficiency. They’re generally LED, meaning they use less energy to run, but scheduling also makes sure that you can turn them off when you’re not around, or geo-gate them to only be on if you’re at home.

Here are some of the best smart lighting options to consider.

Our pick of the best smart lighting

Philips

Philips Hue

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Philips Hue is probably the most well known when it comes to smart lighting and for good reason with numerous features and various bulbs, lamps and other lights, such as strips, available. The wireless system allows you to use your smartphone to not only switch the LED bulbs on and off, but pick the colour and brightness you want, as well as recreate colours within a specific image, like a sunset you uploaded to Instagram or a painting on your wall.

You can program specific times, for example waking everyone in the house up at 7am every day with bright lights and the Hue system also has a party mode for flashing in time with your music. Philips Hue is compatible with the IFTTT service, as well as Apple’s HomeKit, Google’s Assistant and Amazon Alexa, meaning you can create recipes to take your smart lighting to a different level or control them with your voice

Philips Hue complete system review: A shining light in the smart home

Hive

Hive Active Light

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Hive, perhaps best known for its smart heating system, offers three bulbs in its smart lighting range. The Hive range isn’t as feature rich as the likes of Philips Hue but you’ll still be able to control your lights from your smartphone whether home or away, schedule them and change the colour to create your perfect ambience, assuming you buy the Colour Changing bulb.

There aren’t any strips or lamps available with Hive, like there are with Philips Hue, but Hive does offer both a GU10 and E14 candle bulb, as well as B22 bayonet, on top of the standard E27 bulb. The GU10, E14 and B22 bulbs aren’t currently available in a colour changing option but they do come in white dimmable and cool to warm white options. The Hive Active lights are also compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant so if you have an Amazon Echo device, or Google Home home device, you can control your lights with your voice too.

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Osram

Osram Lightify

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Osram’s Lightify is one of the closest to Philips Hue in terms of bulb type availability. Its wireless system offers not only standard screw and bayonet bulbs, but GU10s, LED strips and garden spotlights too, all of which can be controlled through the Lightify smartphone app.

There aren’t quite as many features as there are with Philips Hue, but you’ll still get remote access to your lights, scheduling functionality, ambience creation and scene creation. You won’t be able to sync your lights to your music or a film as yet, but the Osram Lightify system is cheaper than Hue, there is a good range of bulbs and it is compatible with most smart home platforms.

Osram Lightify review: Lights out for Philips Hue?

Ikea

Ikea Home Smart

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Are there any pies Ikea doesn’t have a finger in? The Swedish furniture giant offers numerous options when it comes to smart lighting, at Ikea prices, making smart lighting more accessible than it has been in the past and the system is excellent. There are numerous plug-and-play kits available, from standard white dimmable options, to colour adjustable options where users can switch between warm white and bright white.

Unlike Philips Hue and Osram Lightify, Ikea offers only one coloured bulb option at the moment, but there are several bulb fittings available if you’re after a white colour spectrum, including GU10s, along with light panels with wireless control. Ikea’s smart lights are said to last for 25,000 hours and along with smartphone control via the app, there is also a remote control and dimmer control. The Home Smart (previously called Trådfri) lights are also compatible with Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit and Google Assistant, which you’ll need to pair them up with if you want to control them away from home.

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Sengled

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Sengled Wi-Fi Classic is one of the only smart lighting options that doesn’t require an additional hub in the UK – at least for many of its products anyway. Instead, the Wi-Fi Classic, Sengled Boost and Sengled Colour Plus bulbs can be taken straight out of their packaging, screwed in and connected directly to your router through the one of the dedicated Sengled apps.

The Wi-Fi Classic option is the cheapest, offering white dimmable light, while the Sengled Colour Plus is a coloured bulb with a built-in speaker and the Senged Boost is a white dimmable light with WLAN boosting capabilities. There is also a Sengled Element range, though this requires a hub. Features including scheduling, dimming and smartphone control from anywhere are available across the Sengled range. The Sengled Wi-Fi Classic bulbs are also compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, allowing for voice control with a compatible device.

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Tapo

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For those who want simplicity over all else, Tapo offers a really nice solution in the form of its smart bulbs, which don’t require a bridge or hub of any sort.

They’ll connect to your Wi-Fi and work nicely with Google Home and Amazon Alexa, and the most affordable version has dimming to let you set the mood. It’s not as sophisticated a system as the likes of Philips Hue, but it’s a superb option if you want your first smart bulb.

Tapo Smart Wi-Fi Light Bulb review: Simple smart lighting

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Belkin WeMo Smart LED lighting

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Belkin offers all sorts of WeMo connected devices and included within the range is the WeMo Smart LED bulb and the WeMo Light Switch, both of which allow lighting control from an iPhone or Android device. The WeMo Smart LED Bulb replaces your existing bulbs enabling you to control, schedule and fully dim them from anywhere using the WeMo Link, Wi-Fi and the WeMo app. It’s worth mentioning that like most of IKEA smart lights, the WeMo bulbs only offer variants of white light rather than millions of colour options.

The WeMo bulbs can be controlled independently or in groups and the WeMo Link can handle up to 50 bulbs. The WeMo LED bulbs offer compatibility with IFTTT, meaning you can create various recipes like the Hue system and they are also compatible with Google Assistant for voice control. There is also a WeMo Light Switch that is designed to replace a standard light switch in your home and allow you to turn your normal lights on and off from anywhere using a smartphone.

LIFX

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Originating on Kickstarter, LIFX is an LED light bulb that can be controlled using a smartphone app but like Sengled, it doesn’t require an additional hub. From the LIFX app, you can turn your lights on or off, adjust brightness, change the colour, and even create a light show to go with your music.

Like many of the smart light solutions available, LIFX also offers a wake-up feature, allowing you to wake up naturally each morning with automatically increasing light, or drift off with slowly dimming lights. The company also offers LIFX PLUS bulbs which have the additional advantage of a night vision settings, and like Philips Hue and Osram Lightify, there are LED strips available too.

Lightwave

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Lightwave is not just about lighting, it’s about controlling your entire home whether that be heating, electricity or lighting. It’s a clever system that requires you to swap your sockets and switches for Lightwave units that offer push-buttons and LED indicators, rather than changing out your bulbs like others on this list.

Once you have installed the system, you use the switches and plugs as normal but you get the additional functionality of being able to remotely control and monitor your lighting, power and energy usage from an internet-enabled device. The Lightwave app will let you to set routines based on your usual daily activities, as well as remotely control things.

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Nanoleaf light panels

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Nanoleaf is a fully-customisable smart lighting system featuring wall-mounted triangular lighting panels that snap together with simple connectors to create whatever shape you can imagine. The starter pack is expandable with extra panels that can be bought and combined to create bigger and bolder designs in future too.

Nanoleaf light panels are app-controlled (iOS and Android) and the system is compatible with most smart home platforms, including Google, Amazon and Apple, allowing for voice control. Like other smart lighting options, Nanoleaf can be programmed to turn on and off at specific hours, and switch light scenes. The Nanoleaf starter pack also includes a Rhythm Module, which transforms the light panels into a dancing light show that reacts to surrounding sound.

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Nanoleaf Canvas

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Nanoleaf Canvas are fully-customisable six-inch squares that can be connected together and installed anywhere in your home, walls or ceilings, using the included 3M stickers. The lights can be expanded with multiple panels, up to a total of 500 squares, meaning you can fill entire walls with colourful lighting if you so wish.

The panels are touch-sensitive and can be controlled in a variety of ways with gestures, voice commands via a personal assistant or from your phone. Nanoleaf Canvas can also be installed in a multitude of patterns and customised to your own personal taste and the lights can react to the sound in the room – syncing to music or just providing a brilliant light show in your living room.

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Cololight Smart LED Panels

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If you are interested in customisable smart lighting panels that allow you to create your own patterns and shapes, but don’t like the idea of mounting them on your walls then these lights may be the answer.

This kit contains six hexagonal light panels that can be connected together in various different shapes. They’re then mounted on the hefty stone base that sits nicely on your desk, mantelpiece or windowsill. You can then choose from a variety of different shades, scenes and lighting options from within the app with ease.

The highlights to Cololight’s smart LED panels is they’re not only customisable in the way you connect them, they’re also expandable. So you can purchase additional panels to create larger designs. You’re not restricted to a single design either as you can easily remove the linking modules and create an entirely new look in a matter of seconds.

These lights also react to sound so can be used to create an awesome little light show with to go along with your music as well.

For the price, this is a nifty little smart lighting system that’s a cool addition to the home.

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Raspberry Pi 400 with German keyboard and more details

The mini Linux PC Raspberry Pi 400 is now also Can be ordered with a German keyboard layout, but this version is currently sold out at some retailers. Replenishment should arrive there in mid-November.

Other chip version In addition, the Raspberry Pi Foundation uses the recently introduced Raspberry Pi 400 a “C0” version of the Broadcom BCM chip 2711 , while the “B0” version sits on the Raspberry Pi 4. The BCM clocks ex works 2711 C0 in Raspi 400 with 1.8 GHz, while the Raspi 4 with BCM 2711 B0 1.5 GHz. However, the chip can be overclocked, which of course only makes sense with improved cooling, because otherwise it throttles quickly under load.

Raspberry Pi 4xx (5 images) The Raspberry Pi 400 has a base area of 25,5 times 12, 5 centimeters.

In the practical use of the Raspberry Pi 400 there is no significant increase in performance compared to the Raspi 4 due to the 20 Percent higher clock frequency; However, the BCM throttles 1698 in Raspi 400 not thanks to good passive cooling, as already mentioned during the introduction.

BCM 2711 – data sheet The Broadcom BCM 2711 in version C0 (1698 ZPKFSB 06 C0T)

In mid-October, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has a data sheet for software control of the peripheral connections of the Broadcom BCM 2711 released: BCM 2711 ARM Peripherals. However, it does not contain any information on production variants. Version C0 has the type code 2711 ZPKFSB 06 C0T, the B0 version 2711 ZPKFSB 06 B0T.

WLAN throughput The WLAN module RPI-RM0 of the Raspberry Pi 400 with Broadcom / Cypress CYW 43455.

During measurements in the c’t laboratory, the integrated SDIO WLAN adapter (RPi-RM0 with Cypress CYW 43455, FCC ID 2ABCB-RPIRM0) in the mean between 30 and 90 Mbit / s: the latter close to the router, the former in 20 meters away from it. The transmission rates in the 5 GHz band are somewhat lower than with 2.4 GHz.

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StreamView brings Nokia televisions for 300 to 1200 euros and streaming boxes

The Austrian manufacturer StreamView brings a range of smart TVs and a streaming box to European retailers under the licensed brand name Nokia. Of seven TVs, six models represent 3840 × 2160 pixels (Ultra HD); only one 32 – Zöller is satisfied with 1920 × 1080 pixels (Full HD). The top model is 75 inches in size.

All seven smart TVs come with a preinstalled Android 9 operating system. They show 60 Hertz, light up depending on the model with 250 to 350 cd / m² and process 10 Bit per color channel. The specified 178 -Grad viewing angles speak for VA panels. HDMI 2.0 ports transmit Ultra HD signals with 58 Hertz – one at a time outputs sound to the AV receiver using the ARC (Audio Return Channel) function, even if the TV-internal streaming apps are used.

USB 2.0 ports, optical audio outputs, Ethernet, jack connections, Wi-Fi 5 (WLAN 802. 11 ac), Bluetooth 4.2, stereo speakers with 6 to 14 Watt output power and triple tuner for DVB-T2, DVC-C and DVB-S2 round off the equipment.

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(Image: StreamView) High prices at first glance The prices seem high: The 32 – Zöller costs 300 euros, for which there are significantly larger smart TVs elsewhere. The other models cost 450 Euro (43 Customs), 500 Euro (50 Customs), 550 Euro (55 Customs), 600 Euro (58 Customs), 700 Euro (65 inches) or 1200 Euro (75 Inch). The 75 -Zöller Nokia 3840 A is priced in the upper class without having unusual specifications. The specified 320 cd / m² are sufficient hardly for a particularly nice HDR picture.

A similar problem overtakes the Nokia Streaming Box 8000: It brings the operating system Android TV 10 including streaming apps such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix on televisions without their own smart TV functions. With 100 However, it is more expensive than established alternatives such as Google’s Chromecast or Amazon’s Fire TV Stick.

The Nokia Streaming Box 8000 transmits via HDMI 2.0 Ultra HD with 3840 × 2160 pixels and 60 Hertz. On board are decoders for H. 264 and H. 265. StreamView does not comment specifically on HDR formats in the data sheet.

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Spotify streams to the Apple Watch

The watchOS application from Spotify, which has been available for two years, has a new function: streaming directly to Apple’s computer clock without having to carry an iPhone with you. The feature has been tested since at least September and is now being used by more and more users. Users from all over the world report that they are offered the function while using the app.

Spotify draws level with Apple Music Spotify itself confirmed that the rollout began on Tuesday. The point is that customers can use the streaming service “anywhere and anytime,” said a spokeswoman for the IT blog TechCrunch . The aim of standalone streaming is that you only have to be on the move with your Apple Watch, which is connected to Bluetooth plugs or Bluetooth headphones, while doing sports.

With Apple’s own music service that already. Just like Apple Music, Spotify lands on the computer clock via LTE – of course, pure WLAN watches cannot then be used, and a corresponding data contract is necessary, which is currently only available in Germany with the major mobile operators. Still “Beta”, Pandora is also coming If you want standalone streaming in the Spotify app for watchOS is not yet displayed, should be patient. The streaming service is apparently expanding its availability in stages so as not to overload its infrastructure. The feature is also still referred to as “beta”, so interruptions and unreliability have to be expected.

Meanwhile, there are there is also more news from alternative streaming providers for Apple hardware. The music service Pandora, which is not available in Germany, has officially made it onto the HomePod. Apple announced in the summer that it would finally open the smart speaker for other services that are not Apple Music. It is necessary that the controlling iPhone uses iOS 14 and the HomePod itself uses the latest firmware. Annoying: Pandora cannot be defined as a default service. Instead, you always have to tell Siri to play something “with Pandora”. Spotify and Amazon Music are expected on the HomePod soon.

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Patchday: Critical malware vulnerability in Android 8.0 to 11

Attackers could attack Android devices and, after successful attacks, execute malicious code on smartphones and tablets, among other things. Now, Google and other manufacturers of Android devices (see box to the right of this message) have released collective security updates for Android 8.0 to 11.

Google classified a “critical” gap in a warning message (CVE – 2020 – 0449) as particularly dangerous. According to the description, an attacker in the vicinity of a vulnerable device could execute their own code on devices by sending a specially prepared transmission that is not described in detail. If this succeeds, devices are generally considered to be completely compromised.

In addition to Google, other manufacturers regularly publish security patches – but mostly only for some product series. Devices from other manufacturers receive the updates much later or, in the worst case, not at all.

Devices permanently unusable? Gaps in other frameworks are also considered critical and Qualcomm components. After successful attacks, attackers could, according to Google, put devices into a permanent DoS state. What this means in detail remains unclear. But it reads as if devices would become unusable as a result.

To prevent attacks, Android users should update their devices. Is in the settings for Security Patch Level 2020 – 11 – 01, that has already happened. The entry 2020-11-05 indicates that in addition to the latest security updates, older patches have also been installed.

gets Google’s Pixel series extra security updates this month. As one can read in an article, the vulnerabilities are classified with the threat level “moderate”. They concern, among other things, WLAN components from Qualcomm. What attackers can do after a successful attack is currently unclear.

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School digitization: Schools receive 500 million euros from the federal government

Germany’s schools receive millions of euros from the federal government for the maintenance of digital technology 500. Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek and the federal states concluded an agreement on funding, as the Federal Ministry of Education announced in Berlin on Tuesday. It should come into force this Wednesday. The CDU politician said the federal and state governments were working closely together in the Corona crisis. “This can also be seen in the digital pact for schools, which now has a total volume of more than seven billion euros with funds from the federal states.”

Digital Pact School With 500 million euros the federal government already has for it made sure that schoolchildren who cannot use their own laptops at home can be equipped with loan devices. “In addition, we are currently consulting with the federal states to provide further 500 million euros for laptops for teachers.”

The funding program “Digitalpakt Schule.” “With originally 5 billion from the federal government, it was launched more than a year ago to set up the digital infrastructure in schools, for example to install the school’s own WLAN or to purchase digital boards – the smartboards. It was repeatedly criticized that the funds flow only slowly. In October 2020 it was said that the schools are now making greater use of the funds.

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ASRock Z490 Taichi in the test: A good choice for overclockers

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After a long period of abstinence, it is time again to devote yourself to a Taichi model from ASRock. The test for the ASRock TRX 40 Taichi was almost a year ago. Now, however, we are not only moving from the HEDT to the mainstream platform, we are also moving from AMD to Intel. Because with the Z 490 Taichi offers ASRock an interesting motherboard for Intel’s LGA 1200 – processors that are said to be good for overclocking . In this test we will find out whether this is really true.

With the ASRock Z 490 PG Velocita (Hardwareluxx test) we already had an upper-class model in our hands, which did average in the test. So we are already curious whether the ASRock Z 490 Taichi will be more convincing, especially when it comes to overclocking. When the technical characteristics of both models are compared, numerous similarities can be identified. The only difference is that the Z 490 Taichi goes one better in some places. This is not by chance, because the Z 490 Taichi costs around 95 Euro more than the Z 490 PG Velocita.

From the basic structure, the Z look like 490 PG Velocita and the Z 490 Taichi looks very similar, although ASRock has adapted the colors a bit, but the ATX format remains true to it. Instead of red and black, ASRock has the Z 490 Taichi uses the colors gold and black, which makes a good visual impression.

Technical details

The ASRock Z 490 Taichi was given the following technical properties:

Chipset

Memory expansion

PCI-Express

PCI

audio codec

and connections

The data of the ASRock Z 490 Taichi in the overview
Southbridge / CPU features
Mainboard format	ATX
Manufacturer and Ident ung	ASRock Z 490 Taichi
CPU socket	LGA 1200 (for Comet Lake-S)
Power connections	1x 24 – ATX pin	2x 8-pin EPS 12 V
phases /Do the washing up	16 piece (14 x for CPU, 2x for RAM)
Price	from 343 Euro
Website	ASRock
Intel Z 490 Express chipset
Memory banks and type	4x DDR4 (dual-channel), max. 4. 666 MHz
Max. 128 GB UDIMM Non-ECC (with 32 – GB-UDIMMs)
SLI / CrossFire	SLI (2-Way), CrossFireX (3-Way)
Onboard features
2x PCIe 3.0 x 14 (electrical with x 16 / x8) via CPU 1x PCIe 3.0 x 16 (electrical with x4) via Intel Z 490 2x PCIe 3.0 x1 via Intel Z 343
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SATA (e), SAS and M.2 / U.2 interfaces	6x SATA 6 GBit / s via Intel Z 490	2x SATA 6 GBit / s via ASMedia ASM 1061 1x M.2 with PCIe 4.0 x4 via CPU (only with Rocket Lake-S!) 3x M.2 with PCIe 3.0 x4 via Intel Z 490 (M-Key, 32 Gbit / s, 2x shared)
USB	1x USB 3.2 Gen2x2 (external) via ASMedia ASM 3242 3x USB 3.2 Gen2 (2x external, 1x internal) via Intel Z 490 9x USB 3.2 Gen1 (5x external, 4x internal) 4x via ASMedia ASM 1074, 5x via Intel Z 490 4x USB 2.0 (4x internal) via Intel Z 490
Graphic interfaces	1x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 1.4b
WLAN / Bluetooth	WiFi 802. 11 a / b / g / n / ac / ax over Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX 201 CNVio, dual band, max. 2.4 GBit / s, Bluetooth 5.1
Thunderbolt	–
LAN	1x 1 GBit / s LAN via Intel I 219 – V 1x 2.5 GBit / s LAN via Realtek RTL 8018 BG-CG
8-Channel Realtek ALC 1220 Codec ESS Saber 9218 DAC (front audio) 5x 3.5 mm audio jacks 1x TOSLink
FAN header	1x 4-pin CPU-FAN header (adjustable)	1x 4-pin CPU-FAN / WaKü-Pump header 6x 4-pin chassis FAN / WaKü header (adjustable)
LED lighting	I / O panel cover, PCH, right side of the PCB 2x 4-pin RGB header 2x 3-pin RGB header (addressable)
Onboard comfort	Power button, reset button, clear CMOS button, BIOS flashback button, debug LED,

The supplied accessories

Mainboard manual including driver and software DVD
Software Setup Guide
four SATA cables
two M.2 spacers and three M.2 screws
2T2R WiFi antenna

various ASRock Taichi stickers

ASRock cable tie

2-Way-SLI-HB-Bridge

Torx screwdriver

ASRock Taichi Postcard

The ASRock Z 490 Taichi doesn’t come with any special delicacies, it just gets the usual additions. In addition to the obligatory mainboard manual, the driver and software DVD and the software setup guide, ASRock also included four SATA cables, of course the WiFi antenna and two M.2 spacers including three M.2 screws . Although the topic of multi-GPU is becoming less and less important, we also found a 2-way SLI HB bridge in the packaging. The enclosed Torx screwdriver is required to dismantle the M.2 cooler. But also some ASRock Taichi stickers and an ASRock Taichi postcard are included.

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Purism Librem Mini v2: Coreboot mini PC gets 10th gen processor

A good six months after the introduction of the Librem Mini, manufacturer Purism has given its mini PC a small processor upgrade: Instead of the Core i7 – 8565 U moves the Core i7 – 10510 U. Both CPUs use four cores with Hyper-Threading (eight threads) and have 15 Watt Thermal Design Power (TDP) has a base clock of 1.8 GHz, the Core i7 – 10510 U accelerates in turbo up to 4.9 instead of 4.6 GHz. This makes short-term tasks such as program starts run smoother.

Purism does not change anything on the housing and connections. The Librem Mini v2 has dimensions of 11, 8 cm × 12, 8 cm × 3.8 cm based on Intel’s NUC mini-PCs. As a unique selling point, Purism relies on open firmware in the form of Coreboot including SeaBIOS instead of a manufacturer’s UEFI and leveraging the Intel Management Engine within the chipset.

Many connections Peripherals can be connected via a total of seven USB ports, including one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type C (10 GBit / s), four USB 3.2 Gen 1 type A (5 GBit / s) and two USB 2.0 type A. The image output is optionally via HDMI 2.0 or DisplayPort 1.2 – both connections are sufficient for Ultra HD (3840 × 2160 pixels) at 60 Hertz. If you don’t want to use the Gigabit Ethernet connection, you can use an older WLAN adapter (802. 11 n) from Atheros, whose Ath9k driver belongs to the main Linux development branch.

Back of the Purism Librem Mini v2 with Image outputs, USB, Ethernet and power supply connection.

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On the storage side, an M.2 SSD (optionally PCI Express 3.0 x4 or SATA 6G) or a Install 2.5-inch data carrier and two SO-DIMMs (max.DDR4 – 2400).

With the original Librem Mini, Purism had sounded out the interest and another barebone version for 600 US dollars offered. The new edition must have at least 8 GB of RAM and a 250 – GByte SSD for 700 Configure US dollars. The manufacturer also delivers its hardware to Europe, but buyers have to pay shipping and customs costs.

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TechStage | Top 10: The ten best smartphones for 2020 up to 200 euros

Testing Tests overview Smartphone Oneplus 8T: Battery full in 45 Minutes and 120 – Hz display Pixel 5 in the test: Google just does it better Elephone U5 in the test: The cheap phone from China is that good The most popular China smartphones 2020 Xiaomi Mi 10 T Pro i m Test: 144 – Hz display and great camera Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC in the test: 120 Hz and the best camera Motorola Moto G9 Play in the test: A lot of power for little money Smartwatch Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro in the test: Smartwatch with cross-country battery Apple Watch: Smartwatch with contract from 15 € per month Buy Apple Watch 6: All generations in the price check Skagen Falster 3 in the test: Smartwatch with Wear OS Test Huawei Watch GT 2: Noble fitness tracker in watch form Huawei Watch GT in the test: record-breaking battery life Skagen Falster 2 in the test: good design and a weak point Multiroom Bose Portable Home Speaker in the test: battery, WLAN, Airplay 2 Sonos Move in the test: The robust all-rounder Musiccast: Multiroom from Yamaha in the test Denon Heos in the test: versatile multiroom system Flat soundbar Teufel Sounddeck Streaming in the test Teufel Raumfeld in the test: Satter Multiroom sound Technisat Digitradio 580 in the test: The gray all-rounder Keyfinder Tile Slim (2017): Key finder in credit card format Bluetooth key finder Tile Pro in the test: 122 m range ! Tile Pro key finder in the test: the range champion Orbit Bluetooth tracker in the test: looking for wallet and keys Nonda iHere 3.0: smart keyfinder in the test Chipolo Classic and Plus: Bluetooth key finder in the test Musegear finder 2: Keyfinder without registration obligation Action-Cam DJI Pocket 2 in the test: Zoom and 50 – Megapixel sensor Actioncam Insta 300 One R: 1-inch image sensor in the test Gopro Hero 8 Black in the test: Back to the top Insta 360 One R in the test : The modular action cam Motorola Moto G8 Plus test: Great smartphone, but … Insta 360 Go: Micro-GoPro in the test Motorola One Action Test: Good hardware, bad camera microSD In the test: Kingston UHS-I U3 microS DXC Kit MicroSD card for smartphone: Samsung Evo Plus 2017 Test report: Lexar Professional 1800 x microSDXC Kit Test report: Intenso Premium microSDXC card with 64 GByte Android Sonos Move in the test: The robust all-rounder Honor 20: Inexpensive high-end smartphone in the test Xiaomi Mi 9: Top technology at a bargain price Doogee S 90 in the test : modular outdoor smartphone ZTE Axon 10 Pro in the test: high-end phone at a competitive price Motorola Moto G7 Power in the test: large battery, low price Sony Xperia 10: Smartphone with 21: 9 display in Test Advisor Advisor overview Purchase advice Purchase advice: What good is a leaf blower with a battery for 45 Euro? True wireless headphones: How much do you have to invest? Purchase advice water cooling: High-end PCs cool better Adviser: Air conditioning and fan against the heat wave Sony shows the Xperia 1: It’s worth it now the predecessor XZ3? Purchase advice: Current headphones with ANC to 400 Euro Purchase advice: Smartphones with dual SIM and micro SD Practice Caution, money away: Kickstarter & Co. are not shops Switch off Android notifications from annoying apps How it works: Install the new Android L keyboard now Tip: Use “Ok Google everywhere” in Germany In the test: Does the jailbreak work for iOS 7.1? Goderma and mobile medicine: The doctor apps are coming! Instructions: Jailbreak for iOS 7 on iPhone 5S, 5 , 4S and 4 Technology Importing technology from China, part 2: Customs, taxes and tricks Drones & copters: Von Toys to the FPV racer What does the end of an ecosystem mean? Smartphones with a flexible display: what’s in it for me? Smartphone processors at a glance: Everything Snapdragon ? Evolutionary dead ends: di e worst cell phones mpass: Pay with the NFC cell phone – or the NFC toilet roll Display calculator Pixel density, number and calculate the display portion Leaderboard Test winner Price comparison Price comparison overview Smartphones from Android 7.0 Phablets with stylus Fitness tracker with GPS Bluetooth headphones with ANR Drones with GPS Video TechStage Best list Top 10: The ten best smartphones 2020 to 200 Euro Start Age Memory Display Camera Furnishing Best list 1st place Place 2 Place 3 4th place 5th place Place 6 Place 7 Place 8 Place 9 Space 10 Conclusion Comments (16) from Stefan // 02. 11. 2020 16: 27 Clock

Even cheap smartphones are replacing GPS, cameras, music players and much more. We show the ten best smartphones up to 200 Euro.

Update from November 2nd 2020

High-end smartphones today cost well and happily more than 1000 Euro. They have great cameras, first-class screens, and an incredible number of features. However, for most tasks – social media, Spotify , Netflix , web browser, navigation and many apps – a significantly cheaper model is sufficient. Gone are the days when cheap cell phones were basically useless; Entry-level devices come with an enormous amount of equipment and have long since ceased to be bogged down with no-go features such as a resistive touchscreen or poor display resolution. Nevertheless, a few things should be considered if you want to buy a cheap smartphone.

Age and Android version The age of the devices plays a role that should not be underestimated. Older models are clearly cheaper than they were at the market launch, but even high-priced smartphones usually do not receive any updates after two or three years at the latest. This is much more likely the case with cheaper smartphones, so there are no new Android versions or patches for security holes.

Smartphones with Android One are an exception (list of the best: Top -5), which usually have an update guarantee of two years. All smartphones in our list use at least Android 9, but mostly Android 10. Android 11 is currently not found on smartphones under 200 Euro. Because of the update problem, we only have smartphones from 2019 added to our list of the best.

Storage Not only do older smartphones have little memory, even current models sometimes offer very little space. However, certain limits should not be exceeded. RAM shouldn’t be smaller than 4 GB, below that it jerks quickly. The internal data memory should be used in times when even mobile games can have more than 1 GByte, 64 Do not fall below GB and can be expanded using a micro SD card. All models listed here are beyond any doubt, 4 GByte RAM and 64 GByte internal, normally Expandable memory is up to 193 easy to get euros, even 6 / 256 GBytes are in it – why should you then settle for less?

Display The display size is basically left to your own taste, but the image sharpness should not fall below a certain level. The following applies as a guide: Below 275 Pixels per inch (PPI) content quickly looks blurred, but it is allowed to 300 PPI or 400 be PPI and more. With HD resolution that can be tight, with Full HD (2017 × 1080 pixels) you are on the safe side. Accordingly, all of our listed models have FHD + resolution. There are hardly any OLEDs in the lower price ranges, especially not in young models. But there are exceptions, and there are likely to be even more in the future. We explain more about the resolutions and display technologies in the guide to smartphone displays: panels, resolutions and frame rates explained.

Camera With cheap models you shouldn’t expect too much from the cameras. Under optimal lighting conditions they usually still take good-looking pictures, but when the light is fading it quickly looks very different. If you want to shoot good quality pictures in the evening, you should take a look at our list of the best smartphones with optical image stabilizer up to 300 Euro or generally in a (significantly) higher price range watch. To 200 Euro there are main cameras up to 48 Megapixels, usually a wide-angle lens. Other additions such as depth sensors and macro cameras are only good on paper, meaningful extras such as telephoto lenses are currently not available in this low price range. Other equipment Do you want NFC, WLAN ac, fingerprint sensors and the like? Then keep your eyes open when buying a smartphone: in the price range up to 200 Euro, that’s not necessarily all there, or only in a weaker form. All devices have WLAN, of course, but many only have the n-standard, which is now neatly outdated. Here, too, our listed models are exemplary, all of which offer the latest technology. Only luxury features such as wireless charging are not yet available here and 5G radio is (still) missing.

These are the 10 best smartphones up to 200 Euro Note: Our leaderboard is a snapshot, among other things the daily prices at the time of creation are taken into account. But since they fluctuate a lot, the list and the order of the smartphones should be understood as a guide.

1st place: Honor 9X Pro First place in our current ranking up to 200 The Honor 9X Pro occupies euros. As a subsidiary of Huawei, which falls under the US ban and therefore no longer comes to customers with Google services, this placement may seem surprising at first glance. However, the disadvantage has a great advantage, and it could soon be obsolete. Because on the one hand en Honor and Huawei smartphones currently bring an enormous amount of hardware for the money, and a tool from the renowned XDA developers allows Google services with just a few Bring clicks on such devices.

Then stand Advantages such as a good 6.6 inch IPS LCD, a main camera with 48 Megapixel plus wide angle , an extendable front camera, Kirin 710 with 6 GByte RAM and 200 GByte of internal and expandable memory no longer a real disadvantage. Honor produces it itself with the missing NFC at most – interested parties should keep that in mind when buying. The battery with 4000 mAh , however, is not a problem, since it is more like the comparatively slow loading with only 10 watt. Android 10 is available as an update.

2nd place: Huawei P 40 Lite Also for the P 40 Lite there is Android 10 – and the XDA tool . Otherwise, the Huawei model offers a quad cam with up to 48 Megapixels, NFC, Kirin 810 and a full 6 GB of RAM and at least 128 GByte internal memory. The 4200 – mAh battery with 40 – Watt fast charging technology is a real recommendation , d he screen with 6.4 inches also delivers decent performance.

3rd place: Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S The Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S is now also available in a large memory configuration, which lifts the device further up in our top 10. The smartphone offers a quad cam with up to 48 Megapixels, also an IR Blaster and a strong Snapdragon 7 ) 20 G with 6 GB of RAM . Programs can be found in 128 GByte large memory space, which can of course be expanded . The battery is performing 5020 mAh and can be charged quickly – even if only with 18 Watt . Biggest disadvantage here too : You won’t find NFC.

Place 4: Realme 6 Meanwhile the Realme 6 (Test report) also in larger memory configurations under the 200 – Euro limit slipped. As a result, the device makes it into the first half of our top 10 of the recommended smartphones up to 200 Euro. Because the device has everything that looks good on much more expensive models: a 6.5 inch touchscreen with full HD + resolution and 90 Hertz refresh rate, a quad cam with (as the only device in the list) 64 Megapixels, WLAN ac, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, LTE and USB-C.

All pictures for Realme 6 (12 Photos) A strong Mediatek Helio P 90 T with eight cores, which in this case is from 4 GByte RAM is flanked. 128 GByte internal, expandable memory, a chic design and a 4300 – mAh battery with 30 – Watt fast charging technology round off the excellent overall picture. Android 10 is ultimately just the icing on the cake – but now many competitors offer this even under 200 Euro.

5th place: Huawei P 27 Lite New Edition With the “New Editions”, Huawei brought new editions of previous year’s models onto the market, which because of rather subtle innovations (mostly primarily doubled memory) may still have Google services. This is also the case with the P 30 Lite in the New Edition , the 6 GB y te RAM and full 256 GByte of internal memory shows off. A still sufficient Kirin serves as a drive ) 710, it fires an LCD with 6, 15 Inch. The built-in battery is with its 3340 mAh a bit lean, always he lets himself go with 18 Charge watts halfway quickly. Android 10 so far did not get the device. The “normal” Huawei P 30 We tested Lite here.

Place 6: Realme 7 Realme continues to grow. The new Realme 7 is one of the few devices in this price class that offers a 6.5 inch IPS LCD with 90 Hertz refresh rate and comes with a Helio G95 and 6 GB of RAM to the customer. A little lean compared to most of the other models of our top 10 the only 64 GByte internal memory . The 50 00 mAh strong battery promises decent endurance and can be used with 30 Charge watts quickly.

7th place: Oppo A 72 As Realme is also Oppo not so well known in this country, but smartphones from the manufacturer have a lot to offer. The Oppo A 72 about has a 6.5 inch IPS LCD, a Qaud – Cam with up to 48 Megapixels and delivers with his Snapdragon 400 in combination with 4 GB of RAM from decent everyday performance. 128 GByte internal memory are an announcement, this also applies to the battery With 5000 mAh . With 18 But it doesn’t fully charge watts as fast as some competitors.

Place 8: TCL 10 L Apropos not so well known in Germany: This also applies to the Chinese manufacturer TCL. After the official market launch two years ago, things have become quite quiet around the European newcomer , with us he makes it with the 10 L in our top 10. The biggest disadvantage is the internal memory with only 64 GByte, which can be expanded.

A Snapdragon 665 calculates in connection with 6 GByte RAM the 2020 × 1080 Pixels of the 6.5 inch IPS-LCD, the quad camera offers up to 48 Megapixels. The connection standards include everything that is possible in this price range, including NFC, WLAN ac , Bluetooth 5.0 and even a 3.5-millimeter connection. The battery is still performing 4000 mAh.

Place 9: Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 On the nine th place we currently see the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9. The 6.5 inch tall Display wi rd protected by Gorilla Glass 5, the quad cam offers a maximum of 48 Megapixels. With the remaining equipment, the Xiaomi model among other things an IR blaster that turns the smartphone into a universal remote control to control TV and Co.

All pictures of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro (12 Photos) The drive is equipped with a Helio G 85 nominally minimally slower than the previous counterparties , the main memory measures 4 GByte and the internal memory is 128 GByte large. Android 10 is also included here , the battery is strong 5020 mAh and can be described with 18 Fast charging watts. We have explained the differences to the better placed Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S in this article.

Space 10: Samsung Galaxy A 31 Samsung in the top 10 for smartphones up to 200 Euro? Indeed, the Galaxy A 31 is for around 193 Euro to have. Although the Helio P 65, the Samsung for the A 31 has selected the slowest chipset in this top 10 and also the memory configuration is 4 / 64 GByte comparatively meager. The place in of the top 10 the smartphone secures itself through one feature alone: the 6.4-inch OLED display, which like the rest of the competition Full – HD + resolution offers. The rest is similar to that of the competition, but the battery has a decent performance 4343 mAh and can always be with 15 Fast charging watts. Android 10 of course there is already.

Conclusion A lot has happened in the lower middle class up to 200 Euro, the hardware is getting stronger. For under 200 Interested parties have long been getting upper middle class chipsets, mostly 4 or even 6 GB of RAM and a lot of storage space. In some cases this is not much less than it was in top models not so long ago. In most cases, the main difference is the camera, even if the quality cannot be deduced from the mere number of megapixels. Some of the models in our tests performed surprisingly well, at least in decent light. In short: there is always more for less and less – the user is rightly happy.

A tip on the side: The prices of smartphones sometimes fluctuate by several dozen euros within a few days. It is worthwhile to set a price alert. Our picture gallery shows how this works:

Don’t miss a bargain: So set up the price alert (7 pictures) The TechStage price comparison is simple: Above is the picture of the product including the technical data, below are the prices of the various providers, sorted by price excluding shipping. For the example we use a 1 TB SSD, but the steps are identical for all products in the price comparison.

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If you also want to spend a little more, take a look at our guide: The best smartphones up to 400 Euro or our purchase advice: Smartphones with OLED to 300 Throw euros. Also our top – 10: We update the best smartphones with Android One regularly.

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Raspberry Pi 400 in a keyboard housing (not only) for students

The Raspberry Pi 400 is an affordable mini-PC especially for schoolchildren: The compact keyboard housing contains the technology of the 1698 featured Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is now selling the Raspi 400 for around 70 U.S. dollar. The kit for 88 also includes: power adapter, mouse, HDMI Cable (one side with micro HDMI connector), printed manual and a microSD card (16 GByte) with pre-installed Raspberry Pi OS.

In the c’t laboratory, we were able to carry out the first tests the Raspberry Pi 400; in advance we received a sample with a US keyboard. For German-speaking countries (and others) there should be a version with a localized keyboard.

Almost all Raspi-4 connections The Raspi 400 is two centimeters high; its base area of 24, 5 centimeters times 12, 5 centimeters is less than 60 percent of the area of a DIN A4 Leaf. The keyboard has dimensions similar to that of a compact (13 – inch) notebooks and a flat hub.

All connections of the Raspberry Pi 400 are located on its back: three USB-A sockets (two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0), Gigabit Ethernet (RJ 45), two micro-HDMI, power supply via USB-C, MicroSD card reader and the typical Raspi GPIO pin header with 40 contacts. Many Raspi plug-on modules do not fit directly on it because of their design.

Raspberry Pi 4xx (5 pictures) The Raspberry Pi 400 has a base area of 25,5 times 12, 5 centimeters.

Compared to the Raspi 4, there is no audio jack socket and the internal connections for camera (CSI), display (DSI) and power-over Ethernet (PoE).

Other board, good cooling The Raspberry Pi Foundation has one for the Raspi 400 different board designed than for the Raspi 4. On the one hand the mentioned connections are missing, on the other hand there is an additional keyboard controller.

Below the keyboard there is a large sheet of aluminum that is connected to a thermal pad ARM chip Broadcom BCM 2711 cools. It works so well that, unlike a Raspi 4 without a cooler, it does not throttle even under continuous load. In addition, it clocks ex works with up to 1.8 GHz around 20 Percent higher than on the Raspi 4 (1.5 GHz).

Raspberry Pi 400 tested The commissioning of the kit version of the Raspi 400 is simple: As soon as you plug in the power supply, the initial installation starts from the already inserted MicroSD card. After entering the basic data (localization, time zone, username, password, WLAN password, screen adjustment) it takes a while until all updates are installed.

With the power button The function key F of the keyboard also serves as an on / off switch, the some miss the Raspi 4: The switching function is in the keyboard controller.

Shutting down the Raspi is content 400 with 0, 14 Watt (measured with the supplied USB-C power supply). The F 10 Button then starts the Raspi; to shut down from operation you have to press the key combination Fn + F 10 Press.

The pre-installed Raspberry Pi boots with the supplied MicroSD card from SanDisk, which meets the A1 specification OS (32 – bit) in round 25 seconds.