The Phones Show Chat (audio podcast)
Phones Show follow-up chat, views and
reviews from myself, Ted Salmon
and guests from the mobile world. Comments and questions welcome
to my Twitter account @stevelitchfield.
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Phones
Show Chat episode 700 ("James Burland, Beautiful Dorset!",
19/06/2022) manually
(Size: 23MB, 65 minutes duration).
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Phones
Show Chat 700 - Show Notes
Steve
Litchfield and Ted
Salmon with James
Burland
MeWe
Groups Join Links
PSC
- PSC
Photos - PSC
Classifieds - Steve
- Ted
Feedback
and Contributions
Tim Evans Playing with iOS16 Beta
OzTabletPC
for Videos about Microsoft Surface Duo
Another
Tweak to Android 13 Beta 3
Device
Week
Microsoft
Surface Duo 2
Apple
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Motorola
Edge+
Google
Pixel 5
Steve's
YouTube Shorts
iPhone
13 Pro Max
GTP3
Steve's
T-Shirt Auction
Duodocks
- Shane
Craig's Video
Android
vs iPhone - Which is Actually Better? (Arun
Maini and Marques Brownlee)
Live
Draw
Every week we have a Prize Draw for your chance to win phone
accessories and this week's winner is Dimitrios Bitounis!
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Photo of the Week
Sunnies at Sunset by Marek Pawlowski using a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra:
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Phones
Show Chat episode 699 ("Mark Swidler, Aidan Bell",
12/06/2022) manually
(Size: 23MB, 66 minutes duration).
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Phones
Show Chat 699 - Show Notes
Steve
Litchfield and Ted
Salmon with Mark
Swidler and Aidan
Bell
MeWe
Groups Join Links
PSC
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Photos - PSC
Classifieds - Steve
- Ted
Feedback
and Contributions
June
2022 Pixel Feature Drop
Google's Sound Amplifier
Google's Lookout
Aidan Bell on Planets Computers' Astro Slide
Android 13 Beta 3 - Platform Stability Issue
How to Get Rid of in-App Advertisements on Xiaomi's MIUI 13
Device
Week
Microsoft
Surface Duo 2
Apple
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Motorola
Edge+
Google
Pixel 5
Google
Pixel 6 Pro
Sony
Xperia 5ii
Steve's
YouTube Shorts
Mark’s GCAM Links - One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven
Nokia XR20 and the Red Button
Live
Draw
Every week we have a Prize Draw for your chance to win phone
accessories and this week's winner is Frank Niethardt!
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Photo of the Month for May 2022
Head to the Light, Apple iPhone 13 Pro, Sean Paull:
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Phones
Show Chat episode 698 ("Shane Craig, The Folding Future",
05/06/2022) manually
(Size: 23MB, 68 minutes duration).
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Phones
Show Chat 698 - Show Notes
Steve
Litchfield and Ted
Salmon with Shane
Craig
MeWe
Groups Join Links
PSC
- PSC
Photos - PSC
Classifieds - Steve
- Ted
Feedback
and Contributions
Pixel 5 vs iPhone 13 Mini Size
Matt Jones on Boring Rectangular Slabs
POCO
F4 GT
Sony
Xperia 10 IV
Sony
Xperia 10 IV vs Sony Xperia 5 Mk.II
Android
OEMs, take note: This is an in-display fingerprint reader
done right
Device
Week
Microsoft
Surface Duo 2
Apple
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Motorola
Edge+
Google
Pixel 5
Google
Pixel 6 Pro
Disable
a Duo Screen - Duo
Mono
Steve's
YouTube Shorts
Live
Draw
Every week we have a Prize Draw for your chance to win phone
accessories and this week's winner is Ed Codrington!
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Photo of the Week
Bizarre Storefront Reflection by Kurt Kaufman using a Samsung Galaxy S10e:
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Phones
Show Chat episode 697 ("Mike Halsey, Astro Slide, Pixel 5",
29/05/2022) manually
(Size: 27MB, 78 minutes duration).
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Phones
Show Chat 697 - Show Notes
Steve
Litchfield and Ted
Salmon with Mike
Halsey
MeWe
Groups Join Links
PSC
- PSC
Photos - PSC
Classifieds - Steve
- Ted
Feedback
and Contributions
Andrew Manning on Updates, iPhone and Batteries
Richard Yates on Phone Storage
Steve's
Podarch
Motorola
Teases the Razr 3
Motorola
is Launching a 200MP Cameraphone in July
Pixel
6 GBP100 off at AmazonUK
Android
13 Beta 2.1
Vivo
X Fold - Vivo
T2x
Nothing
phone (1) Launch Date and Price Leak
Steve's
Price-Bracketed Top 5 Phones
Device
Week
Microsoft
Surface Duo 2
Duo
Mono
Apple
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Motorola
Edge+
Mike
Halsey's Computer Museum
Astro
Slide, Have Planet Computers Nailed It?
Google
Pixel 5
OnePlus
Nord 2 5G
Apple
iPhone 13 Mini
Ted's
Google Pixel 4 Review
Google
Pixel 6 Pro
Baseus
12V PD Adapter
Live
Draw
Every week we have a Prize Draw for your chance to win phone
accessories and this week's winner is Stuart Miller!
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Photo of the Week
Cricket
in flower by Keith Bartlett using a Nokia XR20:
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Phones
Show Chat episode 696 ("Nick Ballard, Electric Neutral...",
22/05/2022) manually
(Size: 22MB, 62 minutes duration).
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Phones
Show Chat 696 - Show Notes
Steve
Litchfield and Ted
Salmon with Nick
Ballard (cheapretirement.co.uk,
Twitter)
MeWe
Groups Join Links
PSC
- PSC
Photos - PSC
Classifieds - Steve
- Ted
Feedback
and Contributions
Andrew Manning on Apple Watch
John Tanzer and Kurt Kaufman on Qi Charging
Vivo
X80 Pro - GSMArena
Hands-On
Vivo
X80 Pro Review: The best camera on a smartphone
OnePlus
switching to LCD from OLED for Flagships
Microsoft
just lowered the Surface Duo 2 by GBP500
Update
to Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 11
Android
apps on Windows 11 will soon be running on Android 12.1
Device
Week
Microsoft
Surface Duo 2 - Security Update but still no
Android 12L
Apple
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Tesla
Powerwall - EcoFlow
- EcoFlow
River
Motorola
Edge+
Motorola
Edge 30 Pro vs Motorola Edge+ (2020)
Fairphone
3+ - A
Roundup of Changes from Android 10 to Android 11
OnePlus
Nord 2 5G
Apple
iPhone 14 Series Rumours
Live
Draw
Every week we have a Prize Draw for your chance to win phone
accessories and this week's winner is Kah Leong Ow!
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Photo of the Month
Chain
by Matt Elphick using an Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max. Cropped
only.
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Phones
Show Chat episode 695 ("New Pixels, Sonys, and a solitary
Moto!", 15/05/2022) manually
(Size: 19MB, 60 minutes duration).
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Phones
Show Chat 695 - Show Notes
Steve
Litchfield and Ted
Salmon
MeWe
Groups Join Links
PSC
- PSC
Photos - PSC
Classifieds - Steve
- Ted
Feedback
and Contributions
Malcolm Bryant on Wear
Reminder 2 and Wear
Text
Sony
introduces the Xperia 10 IV
Sony
introduces the Xperia 1 IV
Google
Pixel 7 and 7 Pro
Google
Pixel 6a
The
Pixel 6a won't use the same fingerprint sensor as the
Pixel 6
Android
13 Beta 2 Changes
More
details about the Moto G82 Emerge - Specs
Motorola
G82 vs G52 vs G22
Device
Week
Apple
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Pixel
5 - Pixel
6 Pro
Sony
Xperia 5ii
Always
on Display for the iPhone - YouTube
Short
Pixel
4 128GB - errata: looking this up, it seems
support for this runs out in October 2022. Oops. Ignore what
Steve says on the show!
Oppo
Find X3 Pro - Ted's
Review
Oppo
Find X3 Pro vs Oppo Find X5 Pro
Unihertz
Titan Pocket - Michael
Fisher's Review - Ted's
Unihertz Titan Review
Smart
AudioBook Player
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Inoreader
Microsoft
Surface Duo 2
Live
Draw
Every week we have a Prize Draw for your chance to win phone
accessories and this week's winner is Michael Jansen!
Do get involved before the next one by joining the
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Photo of the Month
Loch Brandy by Marek Pawlowski taken with his Huawei Mate 20 Pro:
For older Phones Show Chat episodes, see our archive.
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New! The Phones Show (shorts)
The Phones Show (full length videos)
Show 436 - The End
(please watch!)...
Show 435 - My Top 5
Phones at Christmas 2021...
Show
434 - Review of the new NexDock 360, a lapdock with a
twist...
Show 433 - Full
review of the Google Pixel 6 Pro - a flagship with compromises
waiting for updates...
Show 432 - Full
review of the Fairphone 4 and a look at its philosophy...
Show
431 - Review of the super-premium and innovative Surface
Duo 2...
Show 430 - Full
review of the Sony Xperia 5 iii
Show 429 - Full
review of the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra
Show
428 - Reviewing the super-rugged behemoth, the Nokia XR20
Show 427 - Full
review of the Sony Xperia 1 iii
Show 426 - Update and
video capture comparison
Show
425 - Chasing the hardware, is a smartphone's OS
irrelevant?
Show 424 - Replacing
a laptop with a smartphone OS?
Show 423 - 2009: the
year Nokia lost the plot...
Show
422 - 2006/2007 - my most exciting year in smartphone
history
Show 421 - Step
inside my Mobile Office!
Show 420 - Hands-on
review of a true budget champion, the Redmi Note 10 Pro
Show
419 - More QWERTY, with
my review of the Cosmo Communicator, one year on!
Show 418 - Hands-on
review and verdict of the Xiaomi Mi 11 5G
Show 417 - The
(surprising) true value in your smartphone...
Show
416 - A look at QWERTY
options for getting text typed up in a hurry...
Show 415 - Bookending
the world of 5G smartphones: Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T and Samsung
Galaxy S21 Ultra
Show 414 - Apple iOS
14.3 ProRAW and a hark back to the Lumia 1020
Show
413 - My Christmas Top
5 Phones, plus my review of the new Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G
Show 412 - NexDock
Touch review - a touchscreen lapdock for Samsung and Huawei
flagships...
Show 411 - Reviewing
the top of the range iPhone 12 Pro Max
Show
410 - Sony's new
compact flagship, the 'Xperia 5 ii' turns out to be something of
a winner all round...
Show 409 - It's new
iPhone time - I review the ProductRED iPhone 12...
Show 408 - Upgrading
your smartphone camera in minutes! Fairphone 3 to Fairphone 3+
Show
407 - It's Google Pixel
4a 5G versus Pixel 5... and the cheaper phone comes out on top!
Show 406 - It's... a
new Pixel, it's a cracker, and it's compared to other new
Pixels!
Show 405 - Review of
the phone of the year, the POCO X3 (NFC) - amazing value for
all!
Show
404 - What Apple did
right with the iPhone 11 Pro's imaging...
Show 403 - OnePlus
Nord review - by way of comparison!
Show 402 - The
Surface Duo - in a parallel universe!
Show
401 - The true 'budget
flagship'? Not a lot missing for under UKP250 with the Xiaomi
Redmi Note 9 Pro!
Show 400 - A look
back at 14 years of the show, plus some well-wishers!
Show 399 - Review of
the new high end Sony pro-camera contender, the Xperia 1 mk II
Show
398 - Verdict on the
new Realme X3 SuperZoom - the poor man's Huawei P series
flagship?
Show 397 - Review of
the surprisingly solid new Xiaomi sub-brand flagship, the POCO
F2 Pro
Show 396 - Reasons
why the OPPO Find X2 Pro exemplifies the best and the worst in
the smartphone flagship world!
Show
395 - Hands-on review
of the unique Unihertz Titan
Show 394 - May 2020
'Top 5 Phones' and a look at the new iPhone SE (2020)
Show 393 - Review of
the super-fast OnePlus 8 Pro
Show
392 - Verdict on the
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, the smartphone that folds in half!
Show 391 - Review of
the Huawei P40 Pro imaging flagship
Show 390 - Verdict on
the Samsung Galaxy S20 *Ultra*!
Show
389 - Review of the
brand new Samsung Galaxy S20 flagship (and S20+, by extension)
Show 388 - Musings on
smartphone screen repairability
Show 387 - Review of
the Moto G8 Plus, the budget smartphone that everyone should
consider - it does everything!
Show
386 - Review of the
eco-conscious Fairphone 3, 100% repairable!
Show 385 - Review of
the NexDock 2, a lapdock that transforms Samsung and Huawei
flagships
Show 384 - Review of
the new QWERTY powerhouse, the f(x)tec Pro1!
Show 383 - My Top 5
Phones for Christmas 2019, plus a review of the Xiaomi Mi Note
10 (Pro)
Show
382 - So I'm using an iPhone 11 Pro - "What Changed?"
Show 381 - A case
with a difference (Mous) and a review of the Nokia 7.2
Show 380 - First
impressions of the Cosmo Communicator
Show
379 - Thoughts on the Google Pixel 4 XL in the context of
the current smartphone world...
Show 378 - Review of
the LG V50 Dual Screen - folding without creases!
Show 377 - Review of the Galaxy Note 10+
Show
376 - Thoughts on the teased Surface Duo and a review of
the Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro
Show 375 - Review of
the Apple iPhone 11 Pro
Show 374 - Huawei and
Google - what will happen next?
Show
373 - The new OPPO Reno 10x Zoom looks great - but how
does it compare to the existing Huawei P30 Pro?
Show 372 - 'One year
on' with the Razer Phone 2
Show 371 - The Galaxy
Note 10 and the Future
Show
370 - It's the fastest phone on the planet - the OnePlus 7
Pro, reviewed here!
Show 369 - Review of
the slender but somewhat perfect Motorola One Vision
Show 368 - Google
Camera vs Huawei's triple lens powerhouse imaging shootout...
Show
367 - Don't be tempted by shiny new hardware - newer may
not necessarily be better!
Show 366 - My review
of the Google Pixel 3a XL
Show 365 - My Top 5
Phones for May 2019
Show
364 - The ultimate zoom camera-phone meets... the ultimate
zoom camera-phone!
Show 363 - Review of
the Huawei P30 Pro with massive imaging zoom - worth a few
compromises?
Show 362 - Review of
the stunning value new Moto G7 Plus...
Show
361 - The Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras, but is it any
good, and does it live up to the brand name?
Show 360 - It's iOS
vs Android in a fight to the finish!
Show 359 - thoughts
on the possibly premature introduction of in-screen fingerprint
sensors
Show
358 - Innovative form factors from the past - might one be
resurrected?
Show 357 - my verdict
on Samsung's One UI/Pie update
Show 356 - A folding
phones rant, plus my Huawei P Smart 2019 review
Show
355 - Summarising the 3.5mm vs Bluetooth debate as it
stands in 2019!
Show 354 - My Top 5
Phones selection for Christmas 2018
Show 353 - The Pixel
Perplexion - it could be that last year's Pixel is the best buy
right now?
Show
352 - Choosing which phone to shoot with, plus my review
of the new Blackberry KEY2 LE
Show 351 - The most
powerful 'compact' smartphone ever? This is the Google Pixel
3...!
Show 350 - The Huawei
Mate 20 Pro is sleek, it's futuristic, it's one of the most
powerful phones ever created. But is it the perfect
camera-centric smartphone?
Show
349 - Reviewing the Galaxy Note 9 against the Galaxy S9+,
plus Pixel 3 news
Show 348 - The LG V40
is announced, but what about the older G7, offering 95% the
functions for half the price?
Show 347 - My verdict
on the biggest iPhone ever - the XS Max...
Show
346 - Establishing the 2018 Smartphone Minimum, with a
Nokia 6.1 review
Show 345 - Be patient
- and save your money. Plus news from IFA 2018
Show 344 - My Top 5
Phones for Summer 2018!
Show
343 - Reviewing the Nokia 7 Plus - a perfectly balanced
high end mid-ranger?
Show 342 - Review of
the new Asus Zenfone 5, so close to a true flagship yet a third
the price!
Show 341 - Review of
the Blackberry KEY2, polished and slick, but one compromise too
many?
Show
340 - The Gemini Verdict!
Show 339 - The
OnePlus 6 and the Smartphone Pantheon
Show 338 - My
hands-on verdict on the Honor 10 budget flagship
Show
337 - Living with a 'compact flagship' - the Sony XZ1
Compact.
Show 336 - My
hands-on verdict on the Huawei P20 Pro flagship
Show 336 - My
hands-on verdict on the Huawei P20 Pro flagship
Show 335 - My take on
a dozen smartphone Hot Potatoes - controversial spec points!
Show
334 - Taming the Samsung Experience, plus news of the
Huawei P20 Pro.
Show 333 - My
extended verdict on the Samsung Galaxy S9, the flagship with
everything
Show 332 - My
hands-on PREVIEW of the Gemini PDA, setting this new smartphone
into context and clarifying who it's for.
Show
331 - Review of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro, super premium
design and specs
Show 330 - The three
phases of PureView - camera phone domination
Show 329 - My Razer
Phone verdict, with updated speaker, camera and display
software...
Show
328 - A look at two new wheezes from Wileyfox:
ad-supported Android phones, and a secure Windows 10 Mobile
handset for businesses
Show 327 - Hands-on
review of the Nokia 8, a cheaper and more capable Pixel 2?
Show 326 - Hands-on
review of the brand new Honor 7X, the flawed mid-ranger
Show
325 - Detailed review of the OnePlus 5T, this year's true
budget flagship
Show 324 - Why
Google's making it hard to pick a flagship, and my Top 5 Phones
for Christmas 2017
Show 323 - Exclusive
(p)review of the retail Razer Phone, the gaming monster
Show
322 - Comparative review of the Apple iPhone X and Google
Pixel 2 XL
Show 321 - News of
the Huawei Mate 10 line and my initial verdict on the Google
Pixel 2
Show 320 - News of
the Google Pixel 2 and my verdict on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8
Archive of earlier Smartphones Shows