Gear Archive
02 Jul 2015
Huawei Honor 6 Plus

Huawei Honor 6 Plus Huawei announced its flagship in its Honor range of smartphones – the Honor 6 Plus – at an exclusive event a couple of weeks ago. The phone, which will be exclusively available through Souq.com at an affordable price tag of AED 1399, comes with boatload of features. Build quality of
02 Jul 2015
SafeDNS

SafeDNS Installing a stand-alone parental control product on the family PC isn’t so effective when the kids can just switch to surfing the Web on a smartphone, tablet, or gaming console. For $19.95 per year, SafeDNS filters out nasty or dangerous websites for any device connected to your home router. In my testing, it
02 Jul 2015
MicroWorld eScan Anti-Virus with Cloud Security

MicroWorld eScan Anti-Virus with Cloud Security The product’s main window features five large panels on a world-map background. There’s plenty of extra space, because eScan’s security suite products use the same user interface, but adds more panels. The panels represent five components: file antivirus, mail antivirus, antispam, firewall, and cloud protection. Each offers some simple
02 Jul 2015
SlimWare Utilities SlimCleaner Plus

SlimWare Utilities SlimCleaner Plus Tune-up utilities are designed to perform a very basic, straightforward function—improve your computer’s overall system performance by repairing the Windows registry, defragging the hard drive, deleting Web browser cookies, and other tasks. However, that changed with SlimWare Utilities, which offers an application,SlimCleaner Free (the PCMag Editors’ Choice for free tune-up utilities),
02 Jul 2015
LaCie Rugged RAID (4TB)

LaCie Rugged RAID (4TB The Rugged RAID hard drive looks a lot like its predecessor, the LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt (500GB SSD). It has the same silver, matte-aluminum body that’s ringed by a bright, orange-colored bumper for extra drop protection. As before, the Thunderbolt cable is permanently attached, so you can’t lose it. The cable
02 Jul 2015
BlackBerry Leap

BlackBerry Leap On the outside, the BlackBerry Leap emulates a design seen in the Z3, a lower end touchscreen device. The build quality feels quite solid and the device weighs around 170-gms. The Leap comes with an edge-to-edge 5-inch HD display offering a resolution of 1280 X 720 pixels, BlackBerry’s latest 10.3.1 operating system
02 Jul 2015
Honor 7 is Huawei’s Latest High End Smartphone

Honor 7 is Huawei’s Latest High End Smartphone Huawei has unveiled a new high-end smartphone with a large display with the new Honor 7. The phone comes with the home-baked Kirin chipset and a fingerprint scanner towards the back. The display of the phone is a 5.2” panel with 1080p resolution, which is totally
29 Jun 2015
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review Update: One flavor of the Surface Pro 3 is enjoying a hefty price cut in the US, thanks to the Redmond camp. Down from its $1,299 price to $1,149 on theMicrosoft Store, the Intel Core i5-equipped model with 256GB of solid state storage makes this an even more attractive
29 Jun 2015
New MacBook 2015 review

New MacBook 2015 review Knock it for its USB Type-C port. Bash it for its wimpy horsepower. But don’t even try to deny that Apple’s new MacBook is one of the most attractive, impressively-engineered laptops that the world has ever seen – there’s simply nothing quite as slick out there. Even though it combines
27 Jun 2015
Alcatel One Touch Idol 3

Alcatel One Touch Idol 3 The 5.5-inch, full HD display and 4G LTE connectivity alone make the Idol 3 worth the cost of entry. Fit, finish, and a polished overall experience seal the deal. Thus, it earns our Editors’ Choice for mid-range Android smartphones. Understated, classy, and well-executed are rarely the first words we