
Jonathan Margolis
Tech Columnist at Air Mail News
- London, UK
- TheFutureCritic
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- 5 of the best laptops31 Mar 2020—ft.comApple 16in MacBook Pro Despite people – sometimes me – proclaiming the slow death of the laptop, Apple has put its faith firmly in the form with the latest MacBook Pro. It has an insanely high spec, even in its basic configuration, but you can opt for 64GB of memory, an 8-core, 2.4GHz processor, an enhanced graphics card and 8TB of solid-state storage, and walk out of the Apple Store £6,099 lighter – albeit with a machine that I reckon will still be acceptable in 2030. The 16in display is...
- Patience is a Vertu1 Apr 2020—ft.comAfter 11 years, the British brand’s first “proper” smartphone combines sharp looks with near indestructibility
- A video-calling camera that only has eyes for you3 Apr 2020—ft.comFacebook is not an uncreepy company, but even if you eschew its core social-media offering, I’ll bet most of you use one of its acquisitions: WhatsApp. And you have probably discovered WhatsApp video, introduced in 2016, whose near-magical compression makes it possible to make decent video calls on internet connections too flaky for Skype or FaceTime. Facebook has now taken video calling to a new level with a group of products called Portal, which work with WhatsApp video as well as Facebook...
- Transparently beautiful speakers5 Apr 2020—ft.comI have a ludicrous number of sound systems in my not enormous flat, both my own and product samples that come and go. I hit 11 hifis of various kinds at one point. I see this as perfectly reasonable. Each has its delights that I could, if asked to, go on and on, and on about. I have to say, though, that almost nobody visiting shows even the slightest interest in any of my systems, other than, in the case of my children, by demanding I turn the speakers down. Parents used to ask children to...
- The ruggedest smartphone on the planet7 Apr 2020—ft.comI’m often asked which company will one day take over Apple’s crown as the consumer tech innovator-in-chief? I don’t know, but it’s likely to be Chinese and its founder is probably about 12 at the moment. But an upstart Spanish/Chinese phone maker already here could be a contender. It has a slightly daft name – Doogee – and a track record of, within a few years, progressing from cheap jolly junk to some of the most sophisticated ruggedised smartphones available. Doogee is so quick on the draw...
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