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What is Noise Cancelling? (& Why Your Next Headphones Should Have It)

Noise-cancelling is one of the big differentiators on the new Apple Airpods Pro over the standard Airpods, and it’s a big selling point of some of the most popular headphones for travel on Amazon period. Headphones like the Airpods Pro, the new ever-popular Sony MX-1000M3, the Bose QC35’s (and newer Bose 700’s) are the ones you’ll generally see people using around town and especially on flights. At least a part of the reason for this, especially on flights, is the fact that they all have active noise-cancelling or ANC for short. But what is noise-cancelling, how does it work and […]

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What is 5G? (& How It’ll Actually Change Your Life)

Chances are you’ve heard the term 5G at some point already. It’s being mentioned a lot right now. And, honestly, there’s a good reason. 5G is going to have a pretty big impact on our daily lives and so, of course, all the carriers want to show what they’re doing with it and are pushing it more and more. The truth is though that 5G is complicated and there is a lot to talk about when trying to explain it. So, in this episode of Decodr, where I break down a new piece of tech every week, let’s dive into all

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Samsung Galaxy Book S Complete Walkthrough: Super Thin PC with Great Battery Life

The first laptop with a Snapdragon 8cx chipset in it was released not too long ago by Microsoft (they white-labeled the processor as the Microsoft SQ1) and I thought it was a great little competitor to the iPad Pro (you can check out my video on it here). But, while I did enjoy it, it sort of felt like it was a bit crippled in battery life. Qualcomm, the makers of the Snapdragon 8cx have shown us crazy multi-day battery life estimates from these chipsets and then Microsoft finally used it but gave the laptop it was in a very

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Best Investment Apps You Should Try Right Now

Over the last year or two, I’ve been trying to save more money as a personal goal, but it wasn’t until I decided to use some investment apps, that it actually started to work. Public First up is Public. Full disclosure, unlike the other apps on this list, Public reached out to me and asked me to take a look at their app. This slick, minimalistic looking app’s main function is that it can be used to make no-fee trades on the stock market. You can buy and sell stocks on any of the public exchanges without paying any sort

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Razer Blade Stealth GTX 1650 Real-World Test (Video Editing & Battery Test)

The new Razer Blade Stealth GTX 1650 is being touted as the most powerful ultrabook laptop ever. It’s small, light and thanks to that NVIDIA GTX 1650 inside it has one of the most powerful GPUs in a laptop of this size. But, is it any good? How does that affect battery life? Can it edit videos? Let’s do a real-world test on the Blade Stealth 1650 and see how it does in a normal day of use. Check out more info on the Blade Stealth GTX 1650 here and make sure to check out my new Decodr series where

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TCL Plex Real-World Test (Camera & Battery Test)

The latest phone from TCL, the TCL Plex, is the first phone from the manufacturer with their own branding on it. Let’s see why they did that and do a real-world test–we’ll do a camera test and battery test throughout a normal day and see how it does. You can check out the TCL Plex here and my new Decodr series where I explain a new piece of tech every week here (let me know what you think!). Thanks for watching!

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Sony Xperia 5 Real-World Test (Camera & Battery Test)

The new Sony Xperia 5 is here and so figured it was a good time to do a real-world test on it. Let’s see what the Xperia 5 camera and battery are like, compare it to other phones in the same price range and how it fairs in a normal day. Let me know what you guys think of the Xperia 5 (you can learn more info on it here) in the comments below and don’t forget to check out the new Decodr series on YouTube and let me know what you think of that!

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What is RCS? (& How It’ll Change Text Messaging Forever)

Have you ever sent a picture to a friend through text and had it not only take forever to send but then when your friend does finally get it, it’s a blurry mess? Well, a lot of that comes down to the fact that if you’re using text messaging–not iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc. but actually text messaging–you’re using a system that was hasn’t really changed since the ’90s. Well, with Google’s announcement earlier this year that they will be helping to bring a new service called RCS to Android devices, that’s all finally about to change. So in this

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The Best Wifi 6 Routers For Every Scenario

I did a video not too long ago explaining what Wifi 6 is and why your next router should be Wifi 6 capable. But, now, I want to try and answer the next obvious question: which Wifi 6 router do you get? So I bought a bunch of them, tested them all and now I believe I have a good list of the ones I think are the best Wifi 6 systems you can buy right now and which scenarios each one might be best suited for. TP-Link Archer AX3000 (AX6000 & AX11000) Firstly, let’s start with TP-Link Archer AX3000.

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Why the Tesla Cybertruck Will Sell Despite Its Looks

Yesterday, Tesla unveiled the new Tesla Cybertruck (stylized as CYBRTRK) and well, a lot of publications weren’t exactly kind to the new truck’s absolutely admittedly polarizing look. And, I mean, I don’t blame them. I myself even turned to Michael Fisher next to me, and said, “That’s gotta be a joke.” when it first came out. After spending more time around it the rest of the night though, I have to admit, my reaction went from that to “Eh.”, to “It’s okay maybe” to “OK, I think I might actually like it”. Regardless of the jarring look though, for people

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What is WiFi 6? (& Why Your Next Router Should Have It)

There has been a lot of talk about the next generation of WiFi called WiFi 6 a lot lately. Now while it might seem like WiFi is just feeling left out while everyone is talking about 5G as the next level upgrade to the cellular networks and it just wants to feel like its getting an upgrade, too, it actually is a very clever new standard for how Wifi works, ways to make it faster, and perhaps most importantly, how to future proof it to handle the massive influx of new wifi-connected devices we keep adding to our own networks.

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Motorola Moto Z4 Real-World Test

Motorola sent me to Chicago to check out the Motorola moto Z4, get a tour of their 5G labs, and take the 5G moto mod (and some others) out for a test on the streets of Chicago. This video was sponsored by Motorola and Qualcomm, but all opinions are my own and I hope you enjoy it 🙂 Let me know what you guys think in the comments below and feel free to learn more about the Moto z4 here if curious! Thanks for watching!

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Fossil Watch Hybrid Complete Walkthrough

Fossil just launched the new Fossil Hybrid HR a smartwatch that uses e-Ink with a traditional watch face on top of it. And since they sent me one for review, I figured I’d try and do a complete walkthrough on it for you guys. If you aren’t familiar, a complete walkthrough on this channel is where I go through every feature I possibly can on a new device so that you are better prepared should you be in the market to actually go buy one. With that said, there is a lot to go through, so let’s get started with

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Microsoft Surface Pro X Complete Walkthrough: The Best Surface Pro

Microsoft just released the Surface Pro X; the decidedly slicker looking Surface Pro powered by a new type of chipset (that will discuss more in detail in a bit). Microsoft sent me one to check out I figured I’d try and do a complete walkthrough on it for you guys. If you aren’t familiar, a complete walkthrough on this channel is where I go through every feature I can on a device so that you guys are better prepared should you be in the market to actually buy one. With that said, there is a lot to go through so

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Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition Complete Walkthrough

I’m kind of excited about this laptop, not going to lie. This is the new Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition and I’m excited because of the GPU power sitting under the hood. This is the first laptop to market with NVIDIA’s new Quadro RTX 5000 GPU. You’ve heard of the GeForce RTX 2080 line up of GPUs, I imagine, and you know they’re some of the most powerful GPUs out right now. The thing is, that while these GPUs can definitely be used for content creation–video/photo editing, 3D rendering, and other graphical professional work–it’s really meant for gaming. The Quadro

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