Hello ladies and gents,

Being a long time gamespotter, although not active overly recently, i feel you guy are brutally honest enough that your feedback could be genuinely helpful as I endeavour to become a 'proper' tech blogger.

Focusing on smartphones, tablets and other smart consumer tech - I'm taking a real-world, honest approach to reviewing/comparing devices - telling you what I think (whether that's at all helpful or not lol).

Anyway - if you guys have a few minutes to check it out (link removed) i'm not seeking tonnes of views and i'm not making ad money out of this - it's just for genuine feedback and constructive criticisms (and maybe any good points heh), that you may have. Any thoughts are helpful!

Many thanks!

@korvus: Well it's simply taking advantage of their own returns policy. With the intention of finally purchasing a full-price, flagship phone in March,

Hi guys.

I bought a phone back in November (sony z3) - and since Nov 1st Amazon is extending returns until Jan 31st (even if opened, for phones/electrical).

So I can return it end of this month, and the new gen of phones will arrive march-ish.

The normal returns policy (from Amazon UK, not marketplace sellers) is 30 days.

So - Do you think I could send back my phone at end of Jan, buy the same one again, send it back in of Feb, buy a new one, Send it back end of March and then buy a new gen of phone (whatever it may be).

Sure it's a bit of faf, but it's really only loading contacts/swapping sim cards and each time i'll be returning it at the full value of the purchase.

What would your opinions of this be (I'm a big phone geek tbh), and, what do you think about using Amazons own return policy in this way - are there any issues with this?

Thanks!

I don't know what to tell ya! Two separate benchmarks confirm these ridiculous speeds.

Here you go :)

Hi chaps. I use a 512gb Samsung EVO SSD which is all well and good. The Samsung Magician software has an 'overdrive' feature which up until this point would (utilising a little bit of ram and a few megabytes of space) significantly improve performance (roughly 2x) - so standard top tier (non-PCI-E) SSD speeds are around the 500mb/s mark for sequential read and write - this became roughly 1000mb/s. Very impressive.

Now there has been a Magician software update.

I run a performance test and just look at these numbers!! Incredible stuff (also note the comparative speed between the SSD and my Spinpoint standard HDD).

Can anyone explain how these incredible results are being achieved? :)