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Lenovo ThinkTab X11 Gen 1 review: An Android business tablet for those who need a more flexible rugged form factor than a phone

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Lenovo ThinkTab X11 Gen 1: 30-second review The ThinkTab X11 Gen 1 is Lenovo's first serious push into rugged Android territory. It arrives with MIL-STD-810H certification, an IP68 rating, and a genuinely useful screwless removable battery. To avoid the power demands of PC hardware, Lenovo went with an ARM-based architecture, using the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 to deliver capable everyday performance. This SoC is combined with a modest 10.95-inch display that is sharp and readable outdoors. One interesting feature in all SKUs is that this tablet has a replaceable battery. But given the exercise to change it isn’t something you’ll want to be doing on a regular basis, this feature is more about extending the tablet’s life, not giving it extended run time with extra batteries. While it ticks lots of boxes for performance and durability, the one major weakness of this option is its cameras, which are l...
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I spent two weeks with the gorgeous Philips Café Aromis espresso machine, and creating delicious custom coffees has never been so much fun

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Philips Café Aromis 8000 Series: two-minute review The Philips Café Aromis 8000 Series is a premium automatic coffee maker that works brilliantly by itself, and even better when paired with the Philips HomeID mobile app. The Café Aromis offers a huge menu of over 50 different hot and cold drinks, and encourages you to tinker with brew settings to achieve the flavor you prefer with your chosen beans. You can do this via the large, bright touchscreen, or better yet, through the mobile app, which guides you through your options with an interface styled like an AI chatbot, and saves your preferences to your profile for quick access later. You can even start brewing remotely through the app. Once you’ve got the brew settings nailed down (including tweaking the grind size using a dial inside the bean hopper), you’ll enjoy consistently delicious hot and cold drinks, with thick and creamy hot or cold mil...
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'Doubtless the best noise-cancelling iPhone headphones on the planet': I tested AirPods Max 2 and they really are that good — here's why

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Apple AirPods Max 2: Two-minute review I haven't always been an AirPods fangirl. In fact, in May 2021, when the company unveiled Apple Music Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless for free, as part of your Apple Music subscription, I may have come down quite hard on Apple's musical headgear — and for some time after that. Why? Because it took four more years for the Cupertino giant to work out how to get its Lossless music standard into its own flagship headphones. Another thing that's taken Apple a very long time? Unveiling a second-generation update to said headphones. It's been five years and three months between iterations, a vast expanse of time in any area of technology, but an epoch in Bluetooth audio and among the best noise-cancelling headphones . A happy by-product of the fact above is that it makes my delay in filing this review seem minuscule in comparison (I had a spell in hosp...
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