by dbadmin | Feb 12, 2022 | Features, Smart Home
While a smart home certainly isn’t a necessity, a smarter home can make all the difference in convenience, control, and even power savings. As a lifelong tinkerer, I’ve been on the connected home bandwagon for close to a decade. In fact, the idea for an automated...
by dbadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Features, Smart Home
In less than a decade, smart home tech has gone from a luxury for the rich to something relatively commonplace. Even if you can’t afford high-end Sonos speakers or a wall covered in Nanoleaf panels, you can probably afford an Echo Dot or a Lenovo Smart Clock. Yet...
by dbadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Features, Smart Home
Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Computer and smartphone users alike have to deal with the same problems: limited and sealed-in storage, difficulty in sharing files, and troubles backing up data. There’s a good chance that you’ve invested in some form of...
by dbadmin | Feb 5, 2022 | Amazon Alexa, Features, Google Assistant, Smart Home
In the smart home world, and digital assistants in general, there are only two major platforms if you’re not using Apple devices: Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Sure, Microsoft and Samsung have their own creations, but Cortana is effectively dead in the water —...
by dbadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | Amazon Echo, Features, Smart Home, smart speakers
Credit: Adam Molina / Android Authority Today’s smart speakers owe a lot to the original Amazon Echo, so every new flagship Echo model is hotly anticipated by industry watchers — it tends to set the bar for whatever follows. The fourth-generation Echo, released in...
by dbadmin | Jan 29, 2022 | Apple HomePod, Features, Smart Home
Credit: Apple Apple was late to the smart speaker game, and when it finally made it, it botched its initial play. Don’t get us wrong — the 2018 HomePod still sounds amazing, but it launched at $349. That made it costly next to other high-end products, never mind a...
