Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2020 i Stuff UK

It’s been an odd month at Stuff HQ. Bags packed, the team were all set to head out en masse to Barcelona (tough gig) to cover the planet’s biggest smartphone show, Mobile World Congress (actually a tough gig). Then the coronavirus struck and the whole event got cancelled. Twiddling our thumbs wondering if we would have any new touchscreens to attach them to, a triumph-over-adversity action plan kicked in as a number of major phone makers said to hell with it and released awesome new handsets anyway. So that’s why this month’s cover feature celebrates their endeavours – and we’ve even given some of them a sticker for being brave little soldiers in the form of a Stuff Mobile Award. MWC hasn’t just been about phones recently – it’s become…

The clue’s in the name of this eye-catching Android that won’t weigh you down ● Weighing in There are two very good reasons carbon fibre is often used in racing bikes and high-performance car parts: it’s very light and very strong. That also makes it ideal for something you carry around all day and occasionally drop on hard floors, don’t you think? Carbon Mobile’s Carbon 1 Mark II is the first phone to be made from the stuff (the Mark I never went on general sale) – and at 6.3mm thin and 125g, it’s 1.8mm slimmer and 63g lighter than an iPhone 11 Pro. ● Powering up Holding a phone that light might make you think it’s been pumped full of coriander instead of the necessary bits of silicon; but…

1 The White Door £2.49/Android● £2.99/iOS You awake in a white room with memory loss. Then follows a point-and-click adventure in a shoebox, your desire for freedom dovetailing with unease, suspicious motives and a sense of creeping horror. 2 Fantastical £free or £4.99/m/iOS This calendar uses natural language for input, integrates weather, adds sports dates and TV listings, and lets you propose multiple event times, after which it sorts your schedule. It’s more like a PA than an app. 3 Nightfall £free/Android, iOS There are hints of dungeon-crawling and Sky co-op in this multiplayer game where you roam isometric worlds and battle nightmares. It’s aimed at kids – there are no ads/IAP – but fun for adults too. 4 FlickType £1.99/iOS, watchOS Fed up yelling at your Apple Watch, or…

If you’ve tried Moment (see p39) you’ll know it’s a serious camera app, turning your phone into a sort-of DSLR. This one feels like what happens when the Moment folks let their hair down. It’s all about vintage video effects – but not by-the-numbers filters. Instead, each filter has been crafted by a pro filmmaker who outlines their inspiration in a succinct story, along with what the effect does. When you’re shooting, Rtro is keen on immediacy: drag the shutter vertically to zoom; tap a subject to have focus follow them; and double-tap to flip cameras, so you can record your beautiful self rather than what’s in front of you. You can capture a minute per movie, across multiple shots, and share it with the world.…

WEAR OS The half-price hide Mobvoi Ticwatch Leather Strap You know how Mobvoi makes Wear OS smartwatches that nail the essentials without costing the earth? Turns out it does simple bands to match. Take this leather loop: attached to your Ticwatch, it’s sure to impress boardroom big-hitters and bank managers alike. £15/mobvoi.com The stainless strip Fossil Smoke Steel Mesh Bracelet Want the best Wi-Fi coverage? You need a mesh network. Want the best wrist coverage? You need this mesh bracelet. Crafted from stainless steel and equipped with a shiny but subtle buckle, it pairs with a Fossil Gen 5 for one of the best-looking smartwatch ensembles around. £49/fossil.com The rugged ribbon Suunto Explore 1 When it comes to watches for the wilderness, there’s an unwritten rule that chunkier is better.…

Price from £1300/samsung.com Not all foldable phones are really phones. Sure, they operate like them, and you can definitely make calls on them, but in practice the Huawei Mate Xs and Samsung Galaxy Fold are foldable tablets. Samsung’s second foldable feels a lot more viable as a smartphone. Like the reborn Motorola Razr, the Galaxy Z Flip is an old-becomes-new-school flip phone with a clamshell design that opens up to reveal a large display. It’s still prohibitively pricey, but of all the phones we’ve folded – and reader, rest assured we’ve folded all the foldable phones – it might just be the one we want most. Flipping shiny The Z Flip looks like a (very tall) phone with a 6.7in display that folds in half. Opened up you see a…

THE BASICS ■ Set attainable goals Time to get a grip? Before you start, don’t set yourself up for disappointment, or morale will go through the floor – and tracking kit out of the window. Go easy on yourself at first, whether attempting to eat better, reduce screen time or exercise more. Positive trends are what’s important, not blazing to the best possible you in an instant. ■ Streamline everything Tracking can rapidly become complex if you splash out on a ton of hardware and end up juggling apps. Where possible, centralise and simplify. If you can use one app for multiple types of tracking, do so. One piece of hardware over three? Great – that will save time, money and brain load. ■ Keep data private Tracking is inherently…

STYLE ICONS Apple Watch Series 5 It’s taken a big bite out of Swiss watch sales and, after five years, continues to rule the roost when it comes to connected timepieces. Take your pick of two sizes that feature the same watchOS giving you an always-on display, a slick place to view phone notifications and the challenge to close those rings in the quest for a fitter you. The ECG heart-rate sensor is saving lives on a watch that remains a good option for iPhone owners only. from £399/apple.com Amazfit GTS The Chinese brand has made an Apple Watch clone, giving you that familiar rectangular design for a much smaller dent in your pocket. This budget-friendly option has a high-resolution colour AMOLED display along with a big array of customisable…

FIRST ADD THESE… ONE DJI FLY MORE COMBO If you can stump up an extra £90 when you pick up your drone, go for the Fly More bundle. In addition to the Mini itself, it comes with a protective propeller guard, two extra batteries for an extra hour’s flight time, a charging hub that can double up as a portable power bank, a carry case and more. £459/store.dji.com TWO SANDISK EXTREME 128GB The Mavic Mini captures 2.7K footage on microSD cards. Five minutes of footage will take up about 1.5GB of storage, so you’ll want to be packing a decent card that can hack high-resolution footage. Sandisk’s Extreme cards are a perfect balance of space and speed, and 128GB should keep you busy. £34/amazon.co.uk THREE WD MY PASSPORT WIRELESS PRO You’re…

Sony WF-1000XM3 £169/stuff.tv/SonyWFXM3 The original WF-1000XMs had an easy job in the early days of noise-cancelling in-ears, because there simply wasn’t much in the way of competition. That’s all changed now – yet the way the XM3s serve up sound quality as spectacular as this while being truly wireless, while effectively cancelling background noise and while remaining comfortable in the ears, is quite something. So, just as it was with the original XMs, it’s job done for Sony. Stuff says Outright winners on design, build, specifications and, most importantly of all, performance Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless £ 239/stuff.tv/MomentumTW Every one wants to sell you a pair of true wireless in-ears, but not many companies can compete with Sennheiser. You’ll find daintier options, and cheaper ones, but nothing that sounds better…

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THESE ARE THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE RIMS, HAND-LAID WITH 24-CARAT GOLD Has Pusha T got a new bike? Depends – is Pusha T a Lycra man who likes spending his Sundays riding two abreast on the A466 to Chepstow? We think not. But if he is, do let him know that these are the world’s most expensive bicycle rims, with 24-carat gold leaf painstakingly hand-laid over Spengle’s high-performance carbon monocoque. They’re made for top-end road bikes rather than low riders. Are they any good, though? They quite probably are. Spengle’s cutting-edge carbon monocoque, a construction method that involves several spun pieces of aluminium riveted together, is also used in Formula 1 cars. You know, the ‘shell’ that keeps Lewis Hamilton and his pals safely cocooned in their cars as they…

SKY REARRANGES ITS PACKAGE Can’t beat them, join them… Sky has restructured its TV deals to accommodate Netflix and BT Sport, making them more affordable in the process. From £25/m, Sky Ultimate TV combines Netflix with Sky’s biggest shows, while Sky Sports can now be combined with BT Sport from £35/m. TWITTER TESTS TRANSIENT TWEETS Twitter is testing its version of Snapchat Stories in South America. ‘Fleets’ are fleeting tweets that appear in a separate timeline for 24 hours before self-destructing. To create a fleet, users in Brazil tap a button that appears on a new home row of posts. REDDIT LAUNCHES SUICIDE PREVENTION SCHEME Internet trolls really are the lowest of the low, so Reddit has announced new tools to help prevent them driving people to suicide. The feature…

The Huawei Mate Xs seems like the first truly uncompromising model of the new generation of foldable phones. Closed, it’s a huge-screened smartphone with stellar specs, including a sensational camera co-engineered by Leica. Open it up, and the Xs transforms into a Galaxy-Fold-beating 8in tablet that’s low on bezel and high on resolution… and doesn’t need a notch. Huawei achieves this 2-in-1 design by making the Mate Xs fold with the screen on the outside. That’s why, unlike the competition, this is a killer phone and tab. But that’s not the full story, as three things put Huawei’s foldable supremacy in question: the screen, the software and, ouchy, that price. First, the screen. It’s plastic, as on most foldable phones, and thus more fragile than glass ones. This means the…

from £65/stuff.tv/Frekvens ■ Here’s a playful approach to home audio from Ikea and fellow Swedish company Teenage Engineering: buy your Bluetooth speaker, plug in a 12in subwoofer, slot in a battery, bolt on an LED light, connect together with ’70s-style spiral cabling and secure with – inevitably – an Allen key. ■ The basic speaker pairs with up to eight devices. It has line-in and line-out 3.5mm ports, a volume dial and removable fronts – yellow, red or black – for design hacking. Sound is as you’d expect for the price, and you can add a battery pack (£15) for 10hrs of portability. ■ Audio improves with the subwoofer set (£129) and gives tunes a significant boost; buy a different battery pack and that becomes portable too. ■ But you…

Price £tbc/sony.co.uk Sony’s most attention-grabbing phone is now the Xperia 1 II. Confused by the name? So are we. But all you need to know is that, from now on, Sony will be using a similar naming structure for its Xperia flagships as it does for its Alpha cameras. So instead of the Xperia 2, we get the Xperia 1 II. We’ll get used to it. Something to admire about Sony’s mobile strategy is that it’s very much doing its own thing – and that trend continues here. Sporting a tall and skinny 21:9 6.5in 4K HDR OLED display, the Xperia 1 II is a tempting proposition for movie-watchers… especially when you factor in the Dolby Atmos sound and motion-blur reduction tech. For the players It might lack the high-refresh-rate…

APPLE WATCH There are some decent Wear OS options for your wrist; but if you have the means and an iPhone, the Apple Watch is a superb wearable for all kinds of health tracking, from general exercise through to keeping an eye on your heart and your ears. from £199/apple.com WITHINGS BODY CARDIO It’s really not healthy to be tormented by your weight – general fitness is more important. But this smart scale is useful for checking trends, not only regarding how many kilos you’re carrying but also about muscle mass and heart health. £130/withings.com UPRIGHT GO 2 With health, it’s relatively simple to track things like calorie intake and exercise minutes. So the Upright Go 2 hones in on posture, buzzing when you slouch. That might sound oddly specific,…

■ Suits you, sir Land Rover hosted the debut drives of this car on some of the harshest terrain on earth: Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, where six Defenders journeyed over 500km, almost all off-road, to prove the machine’s hardiness. ■ I was very dunked The drive saw at least 12 punctures, three rescues from thick mud and two cable-ties required to clip bodywork back into place. “This is as close to the old Camel Trophy races as you can get,” said one experienced onlooker. ■ Winch was nice Fitted with the Explorer pack, each Defender had a winch, an engine snorkel, chunkier wheel-arches and a roofrack laden with spare tyres, hydraulic jacks, spades and myriad tools for digging Defenders out of sodden riverbeds. ■ Brilliant! All the vehicles came out of…

OFF THE SHELF UA Breeze T-Shirt Fitness gear has long boasted about sweat-wicking prowess. But now the standard bearer for waterproofing, Gore, has upped the stakes with a fabric technology that takes mid-workout moisture control to the next level. The Under Armour Breeze T-Shirt features Gore-tex Infinium, a type of fast-drying technical fibre that goes from sweat-soaked to virtually dry in just six minutes. So you can work hard and cool down without getting chilly. £50/underarmour.co.uk Nurvv Your walk reveals a lot about your health and fitness. Sensor-laden shoes and smart insoles that track your daily strides are stepping into view to help us decode our strides. While UA’s new chipped HOVR Machina shoes coach you while you run, Nurvv’s smart soles detect injury risks and help you take action.…

■ Shove me do The ANC and M buttons are camouflaged to look like rivets on the back of the earcups, but they’re easy to locate. In keeping with the vintage vibe, a gold button on the right cup turns the cans off and on. ■ Day skipper The gold button doubles as a joystick to control the volume (up and down) and skip (left and right). There’s no annoying double-tap to master, because pressing down on the joystick takes care of play and pause. ■ What goes off The Marshall Bluetooth app, originally created for the brand’s speakers, has been updated for headphones. It lets you set a timer to turn off your cans after a set period, in case you’re falling asleep to Ringo’s Greatest Hits. ■ Fuel…

Sony WH-1000XM3 £251/stuff.tv/SonyWHXM3 Sony’s WH-1000 series was already a top performer, and the WH-1000XM3s make for an even more compelling package. With Bluetooth wireless and great noise-cancellation, they’re the ultimate public transport stress killer… well, aside from a chauffeur or a lottery win that lets you retire. The leather pads make them incredibly easy to wear, not unlike sitting in one of those ultra-comfy leather chairs, and most importantly of all the sound quality is fantastic. Stuff says Great wireless headphones with effective ANC and a sound that nails just about everything Bowers & Wilkins PX7 £277/stuff.tv/PX7 B&W’s second ANC headphones place greater emphasis on comfort and are all the better for it, while the noise-killing is as effective as you’ll find anywhere. Oh, and they sound flipping good too.…

Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar £2199/stuff.tv/AmbeoSoundbar Utterly convincing Dolby Atmos and DTS:X 3D sound, ample power and lots of inputs mean no other soundbar currently available can perform feats with the solidity and confidence of this Sennheiser. The sheer room-filling scale of this device’s sound is remarkable, and it’s hard to think of any content that wouldn’t benefit from being Ambeo’d. That’s why, as well as being the biggest and the most expensive, it’s the best you can buy. Stuff says The Ambeo Soundbar is a big unit but the sound it makes is bigger still Sonos Beam £399/stuff.tv/SonosBeam Sonos’s great-value Alexa-equipped soundbar offers fine audio quality, comes with loads of features and is compact enough to fit into the average living-room AV setup without taking over. Stuff says Compact, affordable and…

Sony PlayStation 4 Pro £349/stuff.tv/PS4Pro As a gaming platform, PlayStation 4 is the best around – which makes the PS4 Pro the best of the best. Games optimised for the new console look stunning on a 4K HDR TV, and are substantially improved by the extra grunt inside this slightly bigger machine. Sure, it can’t match the Xbox One X for sheer power or resolution, but it makes up for that with an impressive line-up of games – including Uncharted 4, Horizon Zero Dawn and Bloodborne – and virtual reality support. Stuff says The system for console gamers who have a 4K TV and want the best catalogue of games on offer Nintendo Switch £279/stuff.tv/NintendoSwitch Nintendo’s console earned a promotion in our list after it impressed us with a growing…

Jaguar I-Pace from £60,995 (with PiCG)/stuff.tv/ipace Not content with simply making an electric vehicle that can get you from A to B with minimal fuss (and fuel bills), Jaguar has created something desirable, fun to drive and impressively capable when the going gets tough. This car offers Amazon Alexa integration, smartphone connectivity and a 10in touchscreen on the upper deck. With the I-Pace, Jaguar can happily claim to be the first mainstream brand to really give Tesla something to worry about. Stuff says Fun, fast and practical, the I-Pace is the greatest thing to happen to electric cars in a long time Nissan Leaf from £26,345/stuff.tv/NissanLeaf Nissan has really got it right with the latest Leaf – an accomplished family car that packs some serious range and performance, and acts…

TIPS & TRICKS Multiple Echo Shows can act as video walkie-talkies for communicating with lazy housemates. There’s no YouTube or Netflix app support, but you can access both services via the device’s Silk browser. Creating a ‘routine’ lets you trigger multiple smart home devices with a single voice prompt. Amazon Echo Show 8 £110/stuff.tv/EchoShow8 This could be the right smart display for a lot of people. It’s big enough for comfortable video chatting, and to fit in drivers that can fill rooms with music. Its display may not look as refined as some, and the sound won’t worry Sonos, but it is good enough in every area to justify its price. We just wish Amazon could find a way to iron out the politics that mean we don’t get YouTube…

That is some high-end Mad Max cosplay. Isn’t it just? It’s not hard to imagine yourself saddling up some sort of gas-guzzling Frankenstein of a motor, donning a pair of these and taking off across the Australian outback. In actual fact, they might help you to experience exactly that, because they’re far from just a useless movie prop. These are, according to Panasonic, the world’s first HDR-capable virtual reality goggles. I thought we’d given up on VR? Get with it, Gramps. We won’t pretend there aren’t various issues stopping VR from going truly mainstream, but one of the main ones is just how unwieldy the headsets can be – most of them still involve strapping something the size of a box of goose eggs to your face. These still aren’t…

Meow soon is now? MARSCAT Like the idea of a cat more than the reality? Want a four-legged feline friend you can pet and play with, but that doesn’t bring you dead things as gifts, rake its claws down your shins and cough up furballs? Then grab yourself a MarsCat, an autonomous robokitty that moves and meows much like the real thing. It’ll respond to your voice and play with the bundled toys, and has a personality that develops as you interact with it. Unlike a real mog, though, MarsCat’s behaviour can be changed: this Pi-powered unit is open-source. And although the outlay might feel like a clawed swipe to your savings, it’s got nothing on vet bills. $699/elephantrobotics.com Handset devil ZANCO TINY t2 Fancy a smaller blower? The t2’s…

● Camera+ 2 There’s a tendency with manual camera apps to baffle you with an interface akin to an Airbus flightdeck. Not Camera+ 2, which offers manual controls wrapped in a friendly interface. Big yellow buttons ensure you never find yourself in the wrong mode; haptic feedback helps you hold your phone straight; and there’s an optional smile detector to ensure your subject’s got their best toothy grin on. £1.59/Android ● £3.99 / iOS ● Halide Camera This one feels especially attuned to the more recent iPhone cameras. When switching between lenses, an outline offers a preview of the frame you’ll end up with. Enter depth mode and you get a sonar-like view to indicate what’s going to be captured. These depth shots can then be explored in 3D (which…

Price £tbc/hihonor.com Honor’s first ever 5G phone to become available in Europe has a string of top specs to tempt you away from the more established names. Although, of course, as Honor is a Huawei brand, there is one thing missing: the Google Play Store. Kicking and screening The first thing to note is that the View 30 Pro gets a generous 6.57in FHD+ display offering 400ppi and a screen-to-body ratio of over 91%. There’s a slim bezel with a dual-lens punch-hole camera and it’s all metal and matt glass. Innards include the top-class Kirin 990 processor, 8GB of RAM and either 128GB or 256GB of storage. A 4100mAh battery with wireless charging is designed to last all day, and there’s a side-mounted fingerprint scanner. Zoom and gloom The rear…

■ Threely given The driver array consists of three 19mm tweeters, four 38mm mid-range drivers and four 101mm woofers. B&O reckons this line-up allows the Stage to deliver a true three-channel (left, centre and right) presentation. ■ Highly rated A tweeter and mid-range driver at either end of the bar are angled to fire upwards – along with some fearsome B&O digital processing tech, these allow Dolby Atmos soundtracks to enjoy unexpected height. ■ Totally amped There are 11 power amps inside, one for each driver and each turning out 50W of power. 550W from an enclosure as compact as this is more than enough for movie soundtracks to have all the depth and dynamism they need. ■ Lightly grilled The utterly consistent 2mm gap between frame and Kvadrat fabric…

BODY STRAPS Fiit More than just a tracker, Fiit’s chest strap is your wearable link to a world of expert-coached at-home workouts. You can beam hundreds of classes covering strength, cardio and mobility, on demand to your TV, phone or tablet. During each session, the heart monitor logs your real-time workrate and intensity so you can work in the right zone. There are also personalised training plans that stitch together sessions to help you chase down goals. from £10/m/fiit.tv Polar OH1+ Chest straps remain the gold standard of BPM tracking, but there are plenty of sports where they’re a pain to use. The versatile OH1+ optical heart-rate sensor offers maximum flexibility to solve that problem. You can wear the tiny pound-coin-sized sensor on your biceps or forearm, or even move…

■ On tap The top of the speaker is home to an LED touchscreen display. It features four controls: volume up, volume down, microphone mute, and an ellipsis button for entering Bluetooth pairing mode with a long tap. ■ On hand Move your hand towards the controls and motion sensors will kick in to illuminate them – handy in a dark room. Tapping the mic button sends all of them red, and lights up the LED ring in the same colour. ■ On call A multicoloured LED ring encircles the touch controls and is there to acknowledge voice commands or reflect a change in volume – but only when using the touch controls, not your smart device. ■ On the quiet You can also mute the speaker using gesture controls…

Data Wing £free/Android, iOS This game starts off as if Asteroids had a baby with a top-down racer: your triangular craft blasts around circuits, gaining speed when its bum scrapes neon track edges. Soon you discover you’re part of an OS ruled by a deranged AI. Story and game quickly expand, as you glimpse the world beyond the screen and battle gravity in cavern-based sections that recall 8-bit classic Thrust. Rarely do mobile titles pack in so many hours of clever, thoughtful narrative. Pretty much never are such games free. Stuff says A mobile game we’d happily recommend if it cost a fiver – for nowt, it’s an absurdly generous bargain Jumpgrid £2.89/Android ● £2.99/iOS Pac-Man and Frogger meet Super Hexagon and buckets of adrenaline in this superb game, a…

Apple Watch Series 5 from £399/stuff.tv/WatchS5 There’s no great secret to Apple’s continuing smartwatch domination: it’s all down to a seamless relationship between hardware and software, plus impressive health features that other makers still haven’t been able to match. But while the Series 5 isn’t as significant an upgrade as the previous model, it does have one key addition: an always-on display. Also new is a compass, while the watchOS 6 update adds a host of tricks that make the Watch even smarter than it was already. Stuff says This is a minor upgrade on S4, but an always-on display makes the best smartwatch even better Apple Watch Series 4 from £349/stuff.tv/WatchS4 Series 5 is the new king, but the old model remains a great option. The big screen, fast…

Sky Q from £20 + £22/month/stuff.tv/SkyQ Sky Q works flawlessly and could change the way you watch TV – especially now 4K’s arrived. With Sky Movies’ huge range of films and Sky Sports in stunning Ultra HD, along with the recent addition of Netflix, there’s something for everyone to treat their eyes with. And 2TB of storage means you can record 350 hours’ worth of entertainment, so you’re unlikely to be sweating over which show needs deleting. Factor in its multiroom skills, and Sky Q is undoubtedly the best TV experience you can get. Stuff says You’ll have to cough up for a subscription, but this is the best box for watching both live and recorded shows Amazon Fire TV Cube £110/stuff.tv/FireTVCube The Fire TV interface is easy to use…

Oculus Quest from £399/stuff.tv/OculusQuest The Quest offers all manner of fully interactive, roamable virtual worlds that you can throw in your backpack without a single wire. That’s a mindblowing technical feat. Yes, the battery life is average, but the inside-out tracking and total absence of any cables make this the best all-round VR headset to date. It also ships with the Oculus Touch motion controllers included, which means you can play fully fledged Oculus Rift titles without being anywhere near a PC. Stuff says If you’ve been waiting to board the VR bandwagon, the Quest might be the best reason yet to go for it HTC Vive £499/stuff.tv/HTCVive There isn’t much difference between this and the much cheaper Oculus Rift, in all honesty. But if you’re thinking of upgrading to…

Fujifilm X-T3 £1199/stuff.tv/FujifilmXT3 It’s really hard to find anything bad to say about the X-T3 – it’s just consistently great in so many ways. Fuji has looked at virtually every feature on the X-T2 and upgraded it. With substantial tweaks made to the pro-level video options, the high-res EVF, the super-fast autofocus and the burst shooting, what you’re left with is an all-round beast of a camera in a small, beautiful form. As APS-C shooters go, it’s the best there is. Stuff says An incredible stills shooter with video smarts to match NOW ADD THIS Manfrotto 190 Go! Carbon Fibre Tripod You no longer have an excuse for wobbly photos with this carbon-fibre tripod. It weighs just 1.8kg. £269/wexphotovideo.com TIPS & TRICKS Pre-shot ES mode starts taking photos and adding…

Oh my, the bezels. I can’t take my eyes off of them. They’re huge! That chunky screen surround demonstrates that, although this ten-year-old tablet is recognisably an iPad, Apple has not stood still. Its first crack at the form factor also lacked a camera, and had a reflective screen with a lowish resolution that today feels like the pixels are slicing into your eyeballs. Still, it was user-friendly; you could hold the internet in your hands and make the iPad ‘be’ anything via apps. But yes, it now feels its age next to the iPad Pro, which fully made good on the platform’s promise. But you still can’t do proper work on it, eh? It’s just a blown-up iPhone! That jibe hasn’t aged any better than its subject. Dismissing the iPad…