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FELL AUDIO FELL DISC British firm Fell Audio is a newcomer in the world of audio equipment, and its debut effort – the Fell Disc – is aimed at a younger generation discovering CDs and physical media for the first time. The Fell Disc is a home CD player that’s designed to slot into an existing hi-fi setup or stand solo, and it offers connections including stereo analogue RCA outputs and optical and coaxial digital outputs. There’s a built-in DAC for high-res sound, and it’s made to be easy to use, with a straightforward interface that lets you get down to brass tacks straight away. Its retro styling – with a black or silver finish and neon green digital detailing – gives it a throwback vibe suitable for its CD…

1 BEOPLAY ELEVEN • £429, bang-olufsen.com B&O makes no bones of the fact that the Elevens are an evolution of the tech already well established in its EX ear buds. To look at the two side by side you’d notice very little difference, at least beyond the colouration of the Elevens and a notable increase in the hundreds column of the price tag. But the hues are a clue: the aluminium and copper-tone styling draws heavily from the premium H100 headphones with which B&O sent the market spinning a few months ago. These know exactly what they are. They’re already-premium ear buds dialled up yet another notch. As much blingy jewellery as they are a presumably glorious in-ear experience (we can’t imagine that B&O would choose this moment to not…

Remember your first mobile phone? It probably had a tiny screen by today’s standards. In recent years, however, many of the best Android phone makers have progressed beyond delivering stellar flagship devices — all too ‘normal’ and not futuristic enough for this group test — to offering folding phones too. As the name suggests, these pocketable handsets hide a secondary display within, transforming them into pocket-busters closer in scale to mini tablets. That’s thanks to flexible OLED panels, genius hinge designs, and polymer coatings that allow for that all-important folding function. Folding phones come in two tried-and-tested forms: clamshell, which are similar to a half-sized phone sandwich that can flip open; and the focus of this group test, larger scale foldables — akin to a flagship with a doublesize display…

HOW WE TEST In T3, we feature only the finest gadgets out there, and we believe that you – our loyal reader – deserve only the best tech in your life. We don’t want you to waste time, and money, on inferior products, and that’s exactly why our Tested section exists. In here you’ll find only the latest and hottest tech. Each product has been handpicked and tested by T3’s experts. We only choose people with specialist knowledge for each test, so you know you’re going to get an outcome based on many years of experience in their respective field. As well as our traditional five-star rating system (right), we also give out awards to particularly exceptional gadgets, using the line-up below - so when you spot one of these,…

The VR scene is more competitive than ever – Meta’s Quest headsets offer brilliant value, so what can HTC’s latest Vive headset do to justify its premium existence? HTC’s angle appears to be around picture and video quality, with boasts about lossless video passthrough from a capable PC, with the potential for mixed use, including some gaming. The Focus Vision has a familiar look with a shiny front panel that houses the main body of the headset, along with a three-strap system that lets you wear it snugly. At the back of your head, there’s an adjustment dial to get that fit correct, along with a battery holder that both helps to balance the weight of the headset and lets you more easily swap in charged batteries. The headset’s main…

GOLDMUND APOLOGUE PINEL ET PINEL X KONGO Got a spare £1.5m lying around? Of course you do, and what better way to spend it than on a set of unique 5,200W speakers customised by world-famous graffiti artist Cyril Kongo? That’s what you get with the wordily named Goldmund Apologue Pinel et Pinel x Kongo speakers, which are limited to a set of just 20 units. Each Goldmund speaker comes wrapped in leather from Pinel et Pinel, which is then painted with a unique design by Kongo. It means that no two speakers are alike, which is just as well when you’re paying such a princely sum. From £1.5m, goldmund.com NEXT ISSUE IS ON SALE THURSDAY 16 JANUARY Upgrade your workout in 2025 with the best fitness tech…

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SIMPLE & STYLISH 1 JBL MA310 AV RECEIVER WITH JBL 240B BOOKSHELF SPEAKERS Upgrade your audio with the fashionable JBL MA310 AV amplifier. Boasting a clean, contemporary design and no-fuss setup, this 5.2-channel Bluetooth-enabled AV amplifier offers 5 x 60W and has four HDMI inputs. To keep things simple, we’ve partnered it with a pair of JBL 240B Stage 2 bookshelf speakers, for crisp stereo, but the system can be upgraded with additional JBL Stage 2 speakers for full surround sound. £499, £329, uk.jbl.com 2 AMAZON FIRE 4K TV MAX Not only does the Amazon Fire 4K TV Max offer all major streaming services (and quite a few minor ones), it also comes with the Fire TV Ambient Experience, which includes over 2,000 artworks and photography. Compatible with Dolby Vision…

Loose New Year’s resolutions around losing weight or getting fit are doomed to fail without help. Time for a new approach this year, one in which you leave the well-trodden path of calorie-counting and busy January gyms, and stray into the wild blue yonder of high-tech, experimental health and fitness solutions. Those on the cutting edge are embracing ‘biohacking’. Biohacking involves using unconventional, unusual technology driven by data to improve your health: it could mean wearable tech, but it could also mean monitoring your blood or trying untested dietary hacks. Fringe practitioners like Bryan Johnson, the 49-year-old Venmo creator and biohacker, are spending millions of dollars using experimental tech and biochemistry in an attempt to reverse ageing, and making headlines in the process. Fortunately, you don’t have to spend that…

OPTIMISE YOUR APPS Keep in mind that the apps on the front display will automatically be arranged on the foldable display in the same layout. Once unfolded, however, the right-side of the display can be used to arrange other apps and widgets that you won’t see in the folded position – a thumb-and-finger pinch inwards will open the widgets section, which is well worth exploring to personalise with quick-glance app previews and more. SCREEN PROTECTOR The external displays are glass (offering Gorilla Glass durability in all but the Honor’s case) so you’ll want to buy an affordable additional protection layer to avoid any unwanted scratches ruining your experience. These are affordable and, given how pricey foldables are, will ensure you don’t destroy your luxury new handset early doors. CONSIDER A…

The MacBook Pro M4 is the latest generation of a very well-oiled machine. The MacBook Pro has long represented the pinnacle of creative power for those on the move. The M4 family of chips in the new MacBook Pro machines are faster and more efficient than ever. There’s no physical change to this year’s MacBook Pro models, so at first glance you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart from the 2023 M3 models – but that’s no bad thing. Coming in two distinct sizes of screen, the 14.2-inch model is 31.26cm by 22.12cm which is just slightly bigger than an A4 folder. The larger 16.2-inch model is 35.57cm by 24.81cm which isn’t bad for such a large screen. Unlike the MacBook Air, these models are a little chunkier in…

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1 OFFICIAL CASE You’ve dropped many pounds on your shiny new foldable – so you’ll certainly want to protect it. All have official cases up for sale, or third-party brands such as Mous offers specific extra-durable designs for the likes of the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold specifically. From £26, uk.mous.co 2 SMARTWATCH Whether the Google Pixel Watch 3, Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, or Honor Magic Watch 2, a wrist-worn companion for your foldable will track your health stats and means easy at-a-glance notifications too. Various prices and websites 3 BOSE QUIETCOMFORT ULTRA EARBUDS If you’ve bagged one of the best foldables then don’t scrimp on the connected audio quality output. Bose’s best-in-class earbuds deliver active noise-cancelling (ANC) like no other, to block out the outside world while you delve…

The Sonos Arc Ultra is the successor to the Sonos Arc. The Ultra may look largely similar, but it’s been redesigned and acoustically re-engineered to deliver more immersive sound, crisper vocal clarity and beefier bass. The newer Ultra squeezes 14 speakers inside, arranged across seven tweeters, six mid-woofers and one ‘Sound Motion’ woofer. The earlier Arc model has eight woofers and three tweeters. Further catering for not only the high-end with a more significant array – useful for dialogue and vocals – but also a stronger focus on bass output shows the Ultra’s upgraded position clearly. The Arc was no stranger to three-dimensional sound output, with virtual Dolby Atmos surround achieved in a 5.0.2 output, but the Arc Ultra, however, upgrades that to a 9.1.4 output, arranged across nine front/side…