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Motorola MA1 review

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Motorola has been a pioneer of technology for almost a century. While the company has moved into the cell and smartphone market in recent decades, it’s rooted in radios and car stereos. With this heritage, it seems fitting that the first wireless Android Auto dongle blessed by Google has a Motorola logo on the device.

I’ve been testing the Motorola MA1 wireless Android Auto adapter for three weeks and this truly is a great little addition to anyone with a wired Android Auto car stereo.

Design

Everything you need is right in the box to get the Motorola MA1 up and running. It’s actually all in one piece. The dongle consists of a rounded square unit with an integrated USB-A cable.

There’s not much else going on here. You do have a dedicated Bluetooth sync button if you don’t get the pairing set up on the first go or want to add multiple devices. Otherwise, the Motorola MA1 is a minimal unit reminiscent of a glossy-black pebble.

One aside from the hardware is that Motorola is not producing the MA1 directly. The company has licensed SGW Global to manufacture the wireless Android Auto dongle.

Setup

Getting the Motorola MA1 is extremely painless. It’s genuinely only three steps. You need to first plug the USB-A into the existing port in your car and give it around 30 seconds to power up. Then, you need to pair the MA1 to your phone via Bluetooth.

After you have Bluetooth synced, you should get a brief setup wizard on your phone. Completing this will finish the setup. You now have wireless Android Auto with the help of a neat little package from Motorola.

Experience

The overall performance of the Motorola MA1 is very good. Every function acts just as it would with a wired connection. From navigation to music playback, I had zero issues with the onscreen presentation on my car’s head unit. Calls worked as advertised as well.

I had a few quirks while using the Motorola MA1 that I think are worth mentioning. First, the device will make your phone run hot. Pushing the Android Auto interface wireless simply taxes the hardware more than a wired connection. I don’t believe it’s to a dangerous level, but you will notice the rise in temperature.

Next is how to update the Motorola MA1. The AAWireless dongle has a nice companion app to monitor and push updates to the car dongle when issues arise. So far, Motorola hasn’t come up with a similar solution for their wireless Android Auto units.

Lastly, I wish the MA1 didn’t have an integrated USB cable. I much prefer the route that AAWireless engineers took with a simple USB-C port. This adds flexibility to move from wired to wireless Android Auto using the same cable and general placement of the device. The short cord allows very little movement around your car’s interior.

It also limits the point of failure for the entire device. If the cable gets compromised on the MA1 the entire device fails. If it just plugged into a USB-C, then I could most likely replace a $10 cable and continue to use the dongle.

Conclusion

Motorola has a hit in the MA1 in my opinion. It brings dead-simple wireless Android Auto to existing cars with a wired connection. It also only has one true competitor in AAWireless, but Motorola has a more recognized brand behind it and is available for purchase in normal retail channels like Amazon.

Speaking of making a purchase, the MA1 was so popular at release that the company sold out of pre-orders online. At $90 it’s a compelling purchase for those of us who have wired Android Auto. Motorola insists that stock will be made available after February, so hit the links below to keep up to date on replenishments.

Motorola MA1 direct from Motorola Sound

Motorola MA1 from Amazon

Is Yubo A Safe App? All You Need To Know About It

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Yubo is a brand new way to catch up with friends and stream with them. The older name of the app was Yellow. Users below 13 years of age are not allowed to create an account on the platform. Apart from that, you also need your parents’ permission to sign up. Some might ask : is Yubo safe ? The answer is yes. It is entirely secure.

Users from the age bracket of 13 to 17 have the option to create their own Yubo community, which is distinct from the adult community. If you wish to sign up, you have to give your birthday, photo, name, gender, and contact number. To become a verified user, one can get their ID verified. Verified users are awarded a yellow check next to their name. 

Can any two people become friends on Yubo?

A Yubo user can contact a teenager only if they accept their friend request after confirming that it is someone known to them by looking at their photos. As a parent, you also have the power to fix the age limits of your child’s friends. Anyone above that age won’t be able to contact your child in whatsoever way. 

Due to this age range, parents have limited concern since they know that their child is having a safe interaction with Yubo. You can check the age range and confirm whether it is acceptable. Teenagers and children have a lot of fun using this app and developing social contacts necessary for their personal growth. 

What All Can You Do On The App?

Any Yubo user can create profiles that consist only of images. The platform connects people with other Yubo users in their area to create a thriving community. A quick swipe is all that needs to be done to add a new friend. That user ends up in your contact list after you perform the swipe. 

After adding a new friend, you can text them or even video chat with them if exchanging words is boring for you. Yubo users also have the option to live-stream themselves for their friends and even to strangers if permission has been granted since it is primarily a teenager’s app, activities such as dancing, storytelling, singing, or playing games. 

Is Yubo Safe?

Yubo is entirely safe, provided you keep checking it to ensure that your child is not in touch with any strangers. These strangers could be both teens and adults who could pose a threat. However, various safeguards prevent the loss of your child’s privacy. 

Ensure that your child does not reveal their address in any conversations or posts. This could be dangerous since malicious people might track your child with the help of their location. Keeping these little things in mind can make the Yubo journey completely safe. 

Is Yubo considered a dating app?

Yubo is not a dating platform. As stated earlier, it is an app that helps young people make more friends. People make friends in their school, pursuing the same hobbies, and social media platforms including Snapchat, Facebook, and Yubo. 

With the advent of digitalization, friendships have undergone a revolutionary transformation. People meet online, but they never meet in person. Online friendships are much safer, too, as compared to their offline counterparts since the chance of physical harm is zero.

Yubo safeguards live interactions

There are specific rules that ensure that interactions between users are not demeaning to either party:

  • Many visual algorithms exist that do regular analysis of all videos and display pictures. They can be considered the first platform in the world that prevents unwanted stuff from happening in live streams. 
  • The Yubo algorithm checks out all the content posted on the app to ensure compliance with their guidelines. It goes through all comments on the posts, the bio of the users, and the content in their stream. 
  • The app transmits an alert to the concerned when individuals attempt to share their private information, including their address or contact number. A reporting system is also in place where anyone can inform if there is any explicit content anywhere on the platform. 

What is the five-step approach to safety?

The Yubo community is growing with each passing day, and many teenagers consider it their one-stop solution when it comes to social media. In most cases, their experience is fantastic, but everything can not be perfect all the time.

Yubo tries to provide a safe environment for teenagers on its platform. This help is in the form of assisting them in tackling probable problems and adding safeguards at every step. The five-step approach is:

  • Adding necessary barriers at the stage of sign-up to weed out potential troublemakers. 
  • The profile settings are designed to collect all the necessary information to uphold the safety of users.
  • Detailed community guidelines to protect users. 
  • Safety tools to resolve technical issues and provide top-notch moderation.
  • An effective reporting and blocking mechanism.

Safety framework of Yubo

If any user wishes to sign up on Yubo, they must provide a government ID to get started. Any uploaded profile photos are not published immediately after the upload but go through a review procedure first. They are issued only after the review. 

Users do not have the freedom to text any random person on the platform. They first have to become their friend. They can only be their friend if the second person accepts their request. All uploaded videos and pictures do not stay forever on the platform. They are automatically deleted after 24 hours. The reporting system ensures that no unwanted material stays long on the platform. 

Conclusion

So, can we consider Yubo safe? The answer is yes. They have several safety tools that stand out in the industry. Their vision is to allow teenagers to develop more connections without compromising their safety and mental well-being. Other social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram lack this. 

Apart from the multiple safety features, the community guidelines are also robust, which every user has to agree with before starting their journey on the platform.

Kokoon Nightbuds review

Connor Fricke
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The Nightbuds, from Kokoon, are an award-winning pair of earbuds designed to help you track and improve your sleep. They are advertised on Kokoon’s website for $249.99 USD or a “Couples package” with two pairs for $449.99 USD.

Kokoon claims that they are comfort-fitted, noise-masking, sleep-sensing, adaptive earbuds designed with side sleepers in mind.

Right out of the box, I got a pretty good sense that these earbuds would meet many of my expectations and many of the claims on Kokoon’s website. Inside, you’ll find a quick start guide and a note from Tim Antos, the founder and CEO of Kokoon alongside the earbuds, a protective case, a disappointingly short USB-C charging cable and four size variations of the silicon earpieces.

The protective case is slim but well designed to hold this tech in place and ensure its safety no matter where you take it. The earbuds have a funky, but well thought out loop-de-loop cable that wraps around your head and your ears to allow for plenty of flexibility while you roll around at night.

Let’s start with the basics…

Overall, the Nightbuds function essentially as a regular old pair of Bluetooth earbuds. They have volume buttons and a power button that doubles as a pause/play button on the central piece of the headphones which rests on the back of your head at the base of your skull.

They have a sensor on the right side that somehow detects your level of consciousness so that Kokoon’s app can monitor your sleep and fade out your audio when sleep is detected.

The silicone earpieces themselves are, indeed, soft as stated, and they use a pretty unique design here in the ear gels that will guarantee that these do not come out while you toss and turn.

The cord wraps around the top of your ear but doesn’t apply any pressure when lying on your side. As a side sleeper, Kokoon definitely nailed their overall shape and fit, but the Nightbuds are not perfect.

The battery life is not impressive, however it doesn’t need to be. After one night of use there seemed to be between 50 and 20 percent remaining, depending on whether you prefer to sleep with colored noise or no noise at all.

Charging them during the day between uses is definitely necessary but I don’t find any issue with this at all, as long as you remember to plug them in each morning and won’t need them early on in the day.

As with all earbuds, the sound quality is an important thing to think about. These headphones definitely won’t provide you with much deep bass, but their 3D surround sound ability is one of the best factors of their audio.

The Nightbuds will do a great job of making you feel as though you are actually laying by the campfire or in the car on a rainy night, if your imagination allows it. The general sound resolution is plenty to calm you down and get you ready for an efficient night of sleep.

My constructive criticisms

Now don’t get me wrong, I am happy to see at least USB-C charging over micro-USB, however the charging cord they supply you with is pitifully short at about six inches long.

To be fair, this is something I see in a lot of the products I get. I can grasp the idea of saving resources, and who needs a six foot cable to charge a pair of headphones that can’t even be used while charging? But in my humble opinion, for over two hundred dollars I should at least be able to rest the earbuds on a table while they’re plugged into the wall, no?

The only scenario I can think of in which a cable this short is helpful is when charging from a laptop. But anyways, I just thought I would get that rant out of the way.

My next issue is the “noise-masking” capabilities of the earbuds. I feel that the Nightbuds aren’t quite noise-masking like you’d expect from the claims on their website. Unless there’s some function that I somehow am unaware of, they actually seem to do a pretty good job of letting noise through.

I can’t say I was woken up in the middle of the night from noises, but I don’t normally do so in the first place. Perhaps the noise masking comes in once you fall asleep, but based purely off of the sounds I hear while wearing them around the house, there doesn’t seem to be a great overall noise isolation factor of the ear gels.

Trying multiple sizes, I was unable to get a solid reduction of incoming sound, and I didn’t find anything in the app mentioning the noise-masking capability.

The Kokoon App

If there’s one thing that I am happy with, it is Kokoon’s companion app for the Nightbuds. You can find the app on both the App Store and Google Play.

The Kookoon app allows you to set your typical sleep schedule and offers plenty of different audios that you can play in order or on repeat. It also has a convenient function to allow you to overlap two audios at once so that you can listen to a slow and dreamy tune play over the sound of a fire crackling, or rain on a window.

Kokoon also has a few “coaching” and “meditation” audios ranging from 3-30 minutes long. It was very easy for me to find my way through all of the features of the app, and I very quickly found an audio that helped me relax and nod off.

The app is also where you can find the sleep tracking feature where Kokoon records each night of sleep. They display the time you went to bed, fell asleep, and woke up along with the different stages of your sleep. They also provide a neat “sleep efficiency” feature which gives you a percentage representing the relative quality of your night of rest.

Over the long term, you will see some statistical insights on your average sleep efficiency and duration as well as consistency.

Personally, my only issue with this is that Kokoon ends your entire sleep session the second that it detects you are awake, so if you happen to wake up in the middle of the night like I did once or twice, Kokoon will only report the sleep that you got before that. My only wish for the Kokoon app is that it would allow you to set an alarm in the app itself.

Sleep-Sensing

It did seem that my Nightbuds were often fading out far too soon and reporting that I had fallen asleep before I actually did, but I think they do the job about as well as I expect them to.

I understand that there is not always a clear line between wakefulness and sleep, and many people’s brains are different, so the sensitivity to these levels of consciousness isn’t going to be perfectly calibrated.

If I did wake up in the middle of the night, however, the Nightbuds did seem to detect that pretty accurately, evidenced by my reported average of 4.3 hours per night. (Trust me, I don’t get as much sleep as I want but I definitely sleep more than that).

I have no way of confirming the accuracy of my reported sleep stages, but I can only estimate that they are somewhat accurately in line with the sleep efficiency as well as how I felt after each night. The biggest problem within the sleep sensing abilities is that they won’t detect if you fall back asleep, as I mentioned before.

Comfort

The Nightbuds are undoubtedly comfortable to wear while lying on your side. Even laying on your back, the central piece rests in an ideal spot at the base of your skull so that it is not being pressed into your head or neck to cause discomfort.

The ear gels are soft and have an innovative design to minimize the amount of hard plastic making contact with your outer ear.

The winged design of the silicon did create a mild amount of discomfort when I woke up the first few mornings, as it seemed they were a little too stiff and pressed into my ear all night. However I think this can be easily mitigated by simply swapping the silicon out with one of the four different sizes they provide you with in the box. Other than that, I did adjust to the feeling after a few nights and I am sure anyone else could do the same. 

Availability

You can learn more about the Kokoon Nightbuds at Kokoon’s website where you can also purchase a pair for yourself.

Today we preview three Baseus USB chargers

Luke Gaul
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Today we take a look at three different charging options from Baseus. We have the Baseus 30W Super Si Charger, the 65W PD GaN3 Fast Wall Charger Block, and the 65W GaN III USB-C Charger Block.

The Baseus 30W Super Si Charger features an 18W USB-C power delivery (PD) port and a 12W USB-A port. It has heat-dissipating silicon to keep it cool and it has a foldable plug to keep it cool. It comes with a 12-month warranty.

The Baseus 65W PD GaN3 Fast Wall Charger Block can charge up to four devices at one time. You get two USB-C ports and two USB-A ports. It comes with a five-foot power cable and a three-foot USB-C to USB-C cable. This model comes with a two-year warranty.

The Baseus 65W GaN III USB-C Charger Block allows you to charge up to six devices at a time. You get two USB-C Type C fast charging ports, two USB-A ports (one is a fast-charging port), and two wall outlets. It comes with a five-foot power cable. The GaN III chip has better heat dissipation compared to previous generations.

Check out our video or listen to our podcast to see our full preview of these three chargers.

  • Baseus 30W Super Si Charger
  • Baseus 65W PD GaN3 Fast Wall Charger Block

Listen to the embedded podcast to learn more or check it out at the AndroidGuys podcast site.

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Radio Caca (RACA): Play-to-Earn game Metamon that Will Bring People into the Metaverse Era

Scott Webster
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After recently deep diving into Metaverse applications, I discovered The United States of Mars (USM), a 3D Metaverse virtual world, along with the Metamon game, both created by Radio Caca (RACA). They amazed me mostly by the amount of emotions and many real life benefits they bring to the players.

The commonly mentioned term Metaverse is a portmanteau that combines the words ‘meta’ and ‘universe.’ It is mostly used to refer to an anticipated future iteration of the internet, the Web3. This evolution of the internet is expected to be the rise of online 3D worlds, the virtually integrated environments that provide users access to virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences in the future.

For instance, people can build parks, houses, schools, buildings, museums, music scenes, football fields and anything else they can imagine. It allows them to create many events to attract other players to participate and to make profits from the ticket sales for concerts, games and education held in the metaverse. To be more specific, each player will use one NFT as an avatar (RACA Punk) and use Metamon (NFT game) as a representative character exclusively in the USM Metaverse.

In Radio Caca (RACA)’s Metamon game, you can use RACA to challenge & battle other Metamon. $RACA is the native token for blockchain Game Metamon and for the United Stated of Mars (a.k.a. USM). At a minimum, each challenge will earn you Metamon egg fragments, and when you collect enough fragments, you can merge them into a Metamon egg. Note: All RACA that is used and collected in-game will be burned. Their main purpose is to ensure that their players & community have an amazing experience playing this beautiful and fun game. Since they will burn all RACA collected, we, as players, will earn no money for ourselves for the first couple of months. One Metamon gets 20 energy per day. Each challenge consumes one energy.

On a daily basis, you can engage in challenges up to 20 times per one Metamon per day. Metamon energy will reset at 18:00 UTC every day. If you want to play and earn more rewards you can simply use another Metamon. That’s why many people have more than just one Metamon. Rare Metamon have better attributes and consume Diamonds to level up. However, the amount of Diamond supply is not enough for all the Metamon to level up to the highest level.

The supply of Diamonds is deflationary (since the amount is limited and is effectively burned when used). For you, it also means that no matter what NFT you get from Metamon eggs, you will be able to sell them at a good price if you choose to do so.  There are also some preliminary plans to introduce more functions to the rare Metamon in the USM Metaverse, or provide rewards to the users that burned RACA in the Metamon game. It is too early to discuss these in detail. In short, they have a clear USM Metaverse roadmap and, for the time being, new players should just focus on playing Metamon and enjoy it to the fullest each day with friends and family if they want to make the most of their experience in USM Metaverse.

Radio Caca (RACA), Metamon, and United States of Mars (USM) are all being developed with love and care. Everything will come together in perfect synergy. I believe that they will continue to improve their applications, win over new fans, build stronger communities, and celebrate what they have created when the time comes.

Here, I have also summarized some important information about Radio Caca (RACA) here for your reference: Radio Caca (RACA) is the exclusive manager of Maye Musk Mystery Box (MPB) NFT. And it is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) operated by Internet native individuals all over the globe who share a single vision of building a brave new virtual world. Radio Caca (RACA) has a native token (Ticker: $RACA. Token address: 0x12bb890508c125661e03b09ec06e404bc9289040) and is currently deployed on Ethereum, Solana, OKExChain and Binance Smart Chain.

The Universal Metaverse (USM) is a 3D Planet virtual world where users can own lands, build buildings such as stores and art galleries, create and play games. With a Google-Earth-like UX, users will be able to dynamically zoom in and out and to travel around the 3D virtual planet, a first-ever feature of the Metaverse.

Black Shark releases their gaming flagship the Black Shark Pro 4 globally

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Black Shark announced the global launch of their latest gaming flagship, the Black Shark Pro 4. As a gaming phone, it has everything that you would expect it to have as well as a few additional features. One of those features is the inclusion of magnetic shoulder buttons. The mechanical magnetic-lift shoulder triggers simulate the physical feel of actual triggers while allowing Black Shark to keep the size of the device to a minimum. While not gaming, these triggers can act as shortcuts for other applications.

The Black Shark Pro 4 has a Snapdragon 888 processor, an Adreno 660 GPU, and LPDDR5 RAM. It comes in two configurations, either with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage or 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. It has a 4500mAh battery and is capable of extremely fast charging with its 120W Hypercharge. According to Black Shark, you can charge to 100% in only 15 minutes or 50% in 5 minutes.

The display is a 6.67-inch AMOLED with a resolution of 1080 x 2400. It is HDR10+ compliant, has a peak brightness of 1300 nits, and is 111% DCI-P3 rated. You get a triple camera setup with a 64MP (f/1.79) main shooter, an 8MP (f/2.2) wide lens, and a 5MP (f/2.4) macro lens. It also has a 20MP (f/2.45) front-facing camera.

The Black Shark Pro 4 will be available in three colors, Shadow Black, Misty Grey, and Cosmos Black. It is available globally today and starts at $579 for the base model. The configuration with the extra RAM and storage bumps the price up to $679.

For less than $700 you are getting a flagship-level device, and I can’t wait to see how it operates in real-world usage. This seems to be an excellent bang for your buck device.

BLUETTI kicks off its 2022 Spring Sale!

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Springtime is always considered as the most comfortable weather to reconnect with the nature. A portable power station that provides a reliable source of power proves a boon when heading out.

BLUETTI, a global leader in user-side energy storage industry, is now its offering March Madness spring sale across some of its product lineups. Let us take a closer look!

AC200P-Versatile Power Monster

The BLUETTI 2000Wh AC200P is such a power beast that is capable of powering 17 devices at the same time and promises 3500+ charge cycles with LiFePO4 battery inside, It supports up to 700W solar input and can be fully charged in 4 hours. 

BLUETTI is now offering the AC200P at its lowest price ever, you can nab it for $1499–down from its usual price of $1699.

AC300 & B300: Game-changing Power Combo

AC300 is 100% modular and comes without an internal battery. It features a 3000W pure sine wave inverter and can go full-time solar with the capability in receiving 2400W unrivalled MPPT solar charging input. If hook up with four B300 (3,072Wh storage capacity for each) batteries, it can be expanded up to 12,288Wh. BLUETTI has also offered a Fusion Box Pro to bring the overall capacity to a mind-blowing 24,576Wh and the power output to 6,000W, which are way enough to power almost all energy needs from larger households to off-grid adventures. 

AC200MAX- Best Mid-weight Power System

AC200MAX is actually the first modular solar power station from BLUETTI. Despite looking like the AC200P, AC200MAX is just better. It integrates a 2048Wh ultra-durable LiFePO4 battery pack that holds up to 3,500 cycles and a 2200-watt pure sine wave inverter, but has faster solar and AC charging options.

It allows a max 900W of solar input and 500W through AC charging. When being charged simultaneously with solar and AC wall outlet, AC200MAX can be charged up in less than two hours. With the BLUETTI App, everything happening in the AC200MAX can all be controlled and monitored from a distance.

EB55 & EB70: Small Yet Packs a Punch

These two siblings come with a compact body that contains a same 700W inverter with different storage capacities, 537Wh for EB55 and 716Wh for EB70. Both of them feature a combination of 200W AC and 200W solar input for quick charging, together with 15W wireless charger as well as sufficient outputs that are enough to power up 10+ devices at the same time.

Other Recommended BLUETTI Bundles:

Product ModelOriginal Price Spring Sale OfferDiscount
AC200P$1,799$1,499$300
EB150$1,099$899$200                                                                             
EB240$1,599$1,199$400
EB55-Gray$499$449$50
AC200P+3*PV200$3446$2779$667
EB70S+PV200$1148$999$149

Check out all the Bluetti Spring sale deals at bluettipower.com. 

Where and when to buy

Look no further, get whatever you need here: https://www.bluettipower.com/. Just keep in mind that BLUETTI’s Spring Sale 2022 starts at PST 6:00PM on Feb 22 and will end at the same time on Mar 14. 

About BLUETTI

With over 10 years of experience in the energy storage industry, BLUETTI is committed to building the world’s best power stations for van dwellers, explorers, and off-grid life.

Press Contact

amanda@bluetti.com

EKSA Air Joy Plus review

Angel Webster
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Today we’ll be taking a look at a pair of gaming headphones from EKSA, the E3Z Air Joy Plus. As a brand that provides plenty of gaming-related headphones, its portfolio comes in different shapes and sizes. How do the budget-minded units fare? Read on to find out.

The Air Joy Plus is compatible with most gaming systems and platforms, including Playstation 4/5, Nintendo Switch, Windows 7/8/10, and Mac. Included in the box are the headphones, a carry pouch, and a USB to USB-C extender.

Design

The EKSA Air Joy Plus have a minimalist design yet still retain the look of a gaming headset. The ear cups can fold in so the headphones fit inside the carrying pouch. This is nice for those times when you might put headphones away for a while, or pack them up for travel.

Generally speaking, the headset is very light and in the time I used it, it never became irritating on my head. The mic comes with a wind muff that you can attach; it’s not required but could help other gamers with what they hear on their end.

Comfort

When it comes to gaming, we’re never fully sure how long we’ll be sitting down to play so a comfortable headset is key to making sure you can last through those play sessions. The headphones are adjustable so if you have a bigger head, they can accommodate for that and it holds its position pretty well. The EKSA E3Z Air Joy Plus could be more durable as it felt flimsy at times but overall they have a solid look and feel.

Sound

As far as headphones go, it doesn’t matter much how well they’re made if the sound experience is lacking. In my time testing out these I used it for phone calls and in-game party chats; the people on the other end were happy with what they heard and never had any trouble hearing me through the mic.

Similarly, I had no problem hearing others through the headset. In terms of the in-game music and gameplay audio, I thought it delivered pretty well. Both treble and bass could have been a little more full but it got the job done and feels consistent with the price point.

EKSA claims to have noise canceling however I was still able to hear a little bit of background noise but it was very faint and didn’t affect my gameplay. There are definitely improvements to be made on the audio and on the receiving end of the party chat and phone calls.

If you aren’t super serious about your gaming headphones, or are looking for a decent first pair, these would get the job done great.

When buying a set of headphones, or pretty much any item, you have to keep price point in mind. Although the headphones don’t have overly high marks as a whole, they do fall in line with what one should expect with a budget of $35-$40.

Conclusion

If you are looking for a headset that simply functions the way it should and doesn’t cost a fortune, then I definitely recommend the EKSA E3Z Air Joy Plus. These are a solid affordable entry-level pair headphones that leave extra money in the wallet for gaming and in-app purchases.

If you have a little more money to spend, you may want to check out something else in the brand’s lineup. As you’ll no doubt find, “you get what you pay for” in this space. With that in mind, these come with a two-year warranty so there’s peace of mind even at the entry level.

T-Mobile is launching the TCL 30 XE 5G on February 25 for less than $200

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The TCL 30 XE 5G is coming to T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile this Friday, February 25. This device is going to cost $198 at T-Mobile or $199 at Metro.

For less than $200 you are getting a decently specced device. It has a 6.52-inch HD+ (1600 x 720) display with a 90Hz refresh rate. The TCL 30 XE 5G is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 700 processor and 4GB of RAM. It has 64GB of onboard storage but that is expandable up to 512GB via a MicroSD card.

You are getting a triple camera setup with a 13MP main camera, a 2MP depth lens, and a 2MP macro lens. It also has an 8MP front-facing camera. It has a 4500mAh battery but unfortunately runs Android 11. TCL even included an 18W charger in the box for fast charging. For security, you get face-unlock as well as a fingerprint sensor.

This is a well-rounded device for under $200. It is by no means going to be a speed burner, but it will be adequate as a daily driver if you keep your expectations tempered.

REDMAGIC announced the global launch of the gaming-centric REDMAGIC 7

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REDMAGIC announced the global availability of their gaming-centric smartphone, the REDMAGIC 7.

The REDMAGIC 7 runs on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 CPU and a 4500mAh battery. They include a 65W GaN Fast Charger in the box.

There are three color options, but each color comes with a slightly different spec sheet and price tag. The Obsidian Black comes with 12GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It will cost you $626. The Pulsar Colorway features 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage and will cost $729. The final option is Supernova with its transparent back cover. This model comes with 18GB of RAM and 256GB of storage and will cost $799.

The REDMAGIC 7 runs REDMAGIC OS 5.0 (based on Android 12). You get a 6.8-inch 165Hz AMOLED display with a 1080 * 2400 resolution and 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage.

This device comes with a triple camera setup with a 64MP main shooter, an 8MP ultra-wide lens, and a 2MP macro lens. Additionally, you also get an 8MP front-facing camera.

As a gaming device, you get dual shoulder buttons and REDMAGIC’s ICE 8.0 cooling system. The ICE system features a high-speed turbo fan to keep the device cool.

The global version is coming on March 10 to the US, Europe, UK, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Latin America. This seems like a gamer’s dream device and at $800 can potentially be an amazing value. We will keep you posted as we get closer to launch.

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