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Webshare review

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Acquired by Oxylabs in 2024, Webshare continues to operate as an independent provider focused on budget-friendly and self-service proxy deployment. Rather than incorporating Oxylabs’ comprehensive scraping APIs or AI unblocking tools, Webshare maintains its own lean infrastructure, which counts over 80 million residential IPs and 400,000 datacenter proxies spanning 195 countries. Designed for individual users and organizations who need raw connection speed and protocol flexibility, the platform fulfills more than 650 billion proxy requests per month. Along with affordable pricing, there is a no-credit-card free tier for those who may be on the fence about what Webshare brings to the table. Webshare: Plans and Pricing Webshare offers a customizable pricing structure built upon a permanent free plan that provides 10 proxies with 1GB of monthly bandwidth and a full set of features (no credit card re...

RugOne Xsnap 7 Pro rugged phone & action cam review

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RugOne Xsnap 7 Pro: 30-second review Launched at the Berlin IFA this year, the RugOne Xsnap 7 Pro fuses two well-known products into something genuinely new. In this case, those elements are the rugged Android smartphone and the small action camera. In this design, the two can be separated, giving you a rugged phone that can spawn an action camera, the Xsnap Go, whenever you need one. But ignoring that aspect for a moment, what does the Xsnap 7 Pro offer for those who just need a rugged Android phone? As rugged designs go, this one doesn’t have a massive battery, but it does have a decent processor in the Dimensity 9400, and with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, the specifications are at the higher end of this scale. Also, even if you don’t use the detachable camera, the built-in cameras are decent and capable of good results. But the party trick is the tiny square camera that can be removed fro...

Nothing Headphone (1) Pro review: a strange case, but sonically not without merit

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Nothing Headphone (1) Pro: Two-minute review I love an audio outfit that refuses to kowtow to the norm (no thinly disguised AirPods copies here) and instead forges ahead with unconventional and striking ideas — and not just visually, but within the driver count and feature set, too. Nothing's success in the audio and headphone arena is deliciously hit-and-miss. There have been some huge, long-term budget wins and an inaugural set of 'close, but no cigar' cans that made us yearn for an update to see if the relatively young tech brand (born of OnePlus' co-founder Carl Pei in 2021) could fix things. And you know, it certainly could… But here we are, smash-hit affordable second set in the bag (albeit an actual bag, and one that reminded me of swimming lessons in grade school) and on to a third set of headphones from Nothing, this time in the much trickier premium space. Can the Nothin...