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• iOS 13 thoughts

  By Shaun on August 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  I have been trying iOS 13 for a week or so and overall I am quite impressed. Forget the occasional crash or slow down, this is a beta and that’s what betas do. It is all about the new features… Read More ›

• Has Rolex gone too far?

  By Shaun on August 10, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It would appear that the negative thoughts aimed at Rolex are growing and it is hard to know if this is justified or simply born from the frustration of not being able to buy the models we want to buy…. Read More ›

• Orient brings back the Super King

  By Shaun on August 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The design of the SK Diver was very indicative of the ‘70s: from the modular shape and how it conformed to the “roundness” of the case to the four nailed pins on the bezel. The watch featured an inner rotating… Read More ›

• The Seiko 5 Sports is re-born

  By Shaun on August 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The new Seiko 5 Sports draws its inspiration from the five decades of Seiko 5 Sports’ success and its design is based on one of Seiko’s most loved sports watches. Every creation in the new collection shares an updated version… Read More ›

• HTC smartphones pulled from sale in UK

  By Shaun on August 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  HTC has stopped offering its phones for sale in the UK while it is involved in an intellectual property dispute. The Taiwanese company’s online store currently lists all of its models as “out of stock” despite the fact they remain… Read More ›

• Google is shutting down Trips

  By Shaun on August 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Google is shutting down its Trips app for mobile phones, but is incorporating much of the functionality from the service into its Maps app and Search features, according to a statement from the company. Support for the Trips app ends… Read More ›

• The Watch Chosen By The CIA

  By Shaun on August 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  If you know something about aircraft, you probably recognize this one immediately – only you might think it’s the very closely related plane made for the Air Force, the famous SR-71 Blackbird. This, however, isn’t the SR-71, but the Lockheed… Read More ›

• How the television transformed our homes

  By Shaun on August 4, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  The postwar boom made TV ubiquitous: In 1950, 3,880,000 households in America had a TV—about 9 percent of the total population. By 1960, 90 percent of all households had at least one. This was the golden age of appliance marketing… Read More ›

• The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

  By Shaun on August 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  For several years, the revenues department at American had been monitoring my father and other AAirpass holders to see how much their golden tickets were costing the airline in lost revenue. After 20 years it seems, they’d decided the pass… Read More ›

• Orient Bambino (RA-AP0002S10B) watch review

  By Shaun on August 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Orient is a brand that will skirt around the edges of your consciousness if you are at all into watches. The connection to Seiko, the prices and the designs are obvious lures and so I decided to take a look… Read More ›