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This month’s mobile must-downloads

WHEELS

Phil Collins has given up music and is making cars

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Love is a Mini splendid thing

It’s still titchy, but Apple’s most adorable tablet now comes with an iPhone chip, a snazzy screen and support for the Apple Pencil

The alternative: Apple iPad Air (2019)

Sitting firmly in the middle of the range, is this the iPad for the masses?

Revolution on the head

A decent VR headset that doesn’t require a powerful PC or a tangle of trippable cables? The Oculus Quest sounds virtually perfect…

GOPRO HERO7 BLACK

Forget setting up iddly clamps: there’s an easier way

The empire trikes back

Part sci-fi motorbike, part sportscar, all hooligan: the new Ryker is the most affordable and accessible toy in Can-Am’s on-road range

Sexy titch

Sony’s pocketable new mirrorless system camera is aimed at everyone from casual cat-snappers to dedicated vloggers

Backlit to the future

OLED isn’t the only big-screen 4K game in town: Samsung’s new-gen QLED takes on LG’s NanoCell in the battle of the alternative telly techs

Getaway card

Assembling Nintendo’s cardboard VR kit is supposed to be half the fun – but once you’re there, you might not want to let the kids into your new virtual world

Carry on amping

With sleek styling and a Sonos-slapping pricetag, you’d think Amazon could do no wrong with a connected amp… wouldn’t you?

Dust like heaven

Why go outside when you can spend all day sucking up dirt with the ultra-powerful, LED-screened Dyson V11 Absolute?

Go your own ’wei

Losing the ‘Pro’ from the P30 means you miss out on some Huawei goodies but save £200… Basil Kronfli takes it for an extended spin to see if he can get over his FOMO

Days Gone

Good grief, not another zombie title? Fear not: this long-awaited post-apocalyptic epic has considerably more bite than most takes on the monster-slaying formula…

Dangerous Driving

Missing the good old carnage-strewn days of Burnout? A plucky little outfit called Three Fields Entertainment might just have answered your prayers…

Mortal Kombat 11

The legendary fighting game is back, with Scorpion, Sub Zero, Sonya and the rest in this packed, dense and gruesomely beautiful 11th edition

GET OUT

Who needs a gym when you’ve got a great big outdoors and masses of hi-tech kit to help you tame it?

# 2 SHAKE THAT BOOTY

Ditch the gym and blast your body with HIIT outdoor workouts

#3 TRI YOUR BEST

Essentials for wannabe masters of triathlon and Ironman events

#4 KEEP ON RUNNING

Get tooled up to run 26.2 and beyond, both on and off road

#5 HIT PEAK FORM

Top tech for any trek up mountain or down dale

#6 SHOOT TO THRILL

If you want to capture the moment, you’ll need a tough old snapper

UPVOTED WATER BOTTLES

Save the oceans from waste plastic and quench your thirst at the same time: James Day has got a lotta bottle(s)

TALK TO THE HANDSET

The best voice memo apps can do everything from recording quick ideas and transcribing conversations to hacking together a whole podcast

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Play your guards right

Burglars love warmer weather, so now’s the time to set up an outdoor security camera tasked with catching criminals – or just cute fluffy animals – in the act

MAKE YOUR TUNES POP

No one can deny that uncompressed music files and hi-res streaming are king when it comes to audio, but a huge chunk of today’s tracks are being mixed for low-res files and portable, diddy speakers. With that in mind, we enlisted a pro record producer to help us test the best of 2019’s Bluetooth noise-bringers to see which ones offer the purest poptastic performance…

YOUTUBE PREMIUM

Sometimes, the best things in life are even better when they’re not free… Craig Grannell reveals how to enjoy all-you-can-eat music, video and original TV shows – with no annoying ads

NEXT BIG THING?

Don’t you just hate people who use their phones in

SMARTPHONES

• Use Huawei’s OneHop tech for quick wireless file

TABLETS

The latest iPad Pro isn’t cheap, but it’s a mobile

MOBILE GAMES

This game starts off as if Asteroids had a baby with

IN-EARS

Wireless in-ears usually come with compromises. Great

ON/OVER-EARS

Sony’s WH-1000 series was already a top performer,

SMARTWATCHES

The Apple Watch Series 4 has everything going for it

FITNESS TRACKERS

Slow and steady wins the race, and the Now has gone

LAPTOPS

• Who needs a Touch Bar? You can log into your Mac

HI-FI SPEAKERS

• With iPhones and Android devices, you can control

TVs

• Pick one of the expert preset modes and you won’t

SOUNDBARS

Sonos’s home cinema gear has always been a little expensive

SMART SPEAKERS

Making an amazing speaker was an easy job for the multiroom

HOME CINEMA

Sky Q works flawlessly and could change the way you

CONSOLES

As a gaming platform, PlayStation 4 is the best around

GAMES

• Make sure you talk to strangers more than once –

TECH TOYS

Building Lego models is already ridiculously good fun

ELECTRIC C ARS

Not content with simply making an electric vehicle

VR HEADSETS

The Oculus Rift has been playing catch-up for a while;

VR GAMES

Superhot has found its home in VR – just watch those

SMART HOME

• Check out the app’s Energy Savings Report to see

DRONES

The Mavic 2 Pro keeps all the good bits of the old

COMPACT CAMERAS

We wouldn’t recommend buying this camera if you already

SYSTEM CAMERAS

• Pre-shot ES mode starts taking photos and adding

BUDGET BUYS

• Chickens killed you in Zelda again? You can rewind

HOW TO BUY A CHROMEBOOK

Chromebooks offer all the laptop basics for a fraction of the price of a MacBook or high-end Windows PC… they’re Wi-Fi-hopping wonders

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