Asus Zenfone 8 Rumours, Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra hits UK | TSW62 By Tech Spurt

Hello goodies and welcome to another ball bounce in the epic episode of tech, spurred weekly, the only internet tech news show that's worse for your health than a deep, fried lord sandwich. If internet news shows had a hygiene race- and this would have a straight up- zero stars for making you vomit up your own kidneys. So no weird ass intro this week, partly because any new viewers last week were left slightly confused by the three-minute-long, fake meditation tip that they were experiencing when they were just expecting some random geek person to chat them about Samsung's, new laptops and partly because I have a literal sack of smartphones and other tech just to hover in there. In my peripheral vision, waiting for review and that's already seriously slashing into my heavy drinking and crying naked in the shower time. So without further ado, let's get on to me banging on about tech expert weekly. So it's been another really horrifically dry week as far as tech shenanigans goes, which basically means inevitably that next week is going to be an absolute horror, show where every decides to launch a new smartphone, probably on the same bloody day.

This week, however, Xiaomi did finally launch its billy big bollocks me 11, ultra smartphone, here in blight and Xiaomi actually reached out to me, asked me if I wanted to contribute something to the little online livestream part a to help them celebrate. I said sure it why not, so I shot them a short little video just to insert in there somewhere. Unfortunately, however, Xiaomi decided that the video I shot them didn't really focus very much on the phone itself. I was mostly just me banging on about anime that I liked, because I'm not really sure why that would be a problem per se, but anyway, because I went to all the trouble and effort of spending an entire 20 minutes, shooting and editing that video, and I don't want it to go to waste. Here's a kind of special DVD extra bonus features, uh director's cut of the video that I shot hello, kiddies uncle spurt here and rejoice, because this big old slab of ridiculous tech right here, the Xiaomi me 11 ultra- is finally launching here in blight all right.

Now. I've already fully reviewed this absolute unit over on tech spa. You can go check out my coverage there, but to help Xiaomi celebrate the UK release of the meal 11 ultra, I thought I'd put together a highly original list. Type thing. My top five uses are that funky Wii screen that slaps there on the back end of this crazy mono.

So let's do that then number one stick on a wallpaper of Anna nishikinemia Anna is simonize's student council president, who knows what she wants and what she wants is to force her schoolyard crush the hapless tanakichi to drink. Her love nectar, the less said about that the better to be honest, but her smiling fear sure does brighten up the 11 ultra's back end number two stick on a wallpaper of a kanehiyama. Why not make the most of that poppy AMOLED screen with a colorful picture of a Khan one of love, Tyron's, most memorable characters? Okay, so Kane can be a bits tabby when she's upset to the point where it's actually a pretty good drinking game, take a shot. Every time someone gets stabbed a bit, and you'll be mulled in minutes, Monza number three stick on a wallpaper of Midas Ackerman Midas from the relentlessly bleak, but brilliant attack of titan can certainly handle herself in a scrap, which is great news when the entire world's been overrun by massive monster thingies that treat humans like readily available pork, scratching number four stick on a wallpaper of SIA vicarage. Nobody wields a Katina in quite the same way as says from blood c, although she'd even best most force.

If she was swinging around a mop, handle guns are she's a vampire who hates humans and wants to slaughter every last one of us and drain us of our blood, but halo. No one's perfect and number five stick on a wallpaper of euros make gurus is undoubtedly the best use of that race screen because she really does have it all. She's a sassy neuroscience researcher she's in one of the best anime ever created and yeah. What? What do you really want? So there you have it. I mean I don't know about you, but if anything, I don't think there was enough.

Anime references in there could have easily bumped it up to top 10 users at that rear screen and just crammed in a lot more geeky, goodness, each to their own. Other news this week, really, really thin on the ground. Here, Google is set to launch a new, more affordable pair of its Pixel Buds. True wireless earbuds, known as the Google Pixel buds a series and that's likely going to land during the Google. I o developers conference which kicks off on May the 18th.

I believe it is the big cities managed to leak the Google Pixel buzzer series themselves on Twitter, possibly accidentally on purpose like most of these bloody leaks, but so far, there's no other details other than it's got a fast parent feature, and I was mentioning last week's show, there are heavy rumors that we'll see some form of new smartphone from Google at Io as well, or at least just like a little tease of one potentially the Google Pixel 6, or maybe a bit of Google Pixel 5a action we'll have to wait and see. As for other news, I mean right here. This is really script and the bottom of the barrel. Right now I mean this is kind of like the point in the house party, where there's nothing left in the drinks' fridge, except for some, like all dented, expired kinds of copper burg and some dodgy yellow liquid in a bottle with a foreign label. I mean it'll, probably make you go blind and start bleeding out of every single orifice, but you'll still drink it anyway, because what else you're going to do sober up the only other news.

I could really see was the Apple Watch 8, which is set to launch not this year, but next year uh could possibly be able to track your blood alcohol levels for you, um, which I mean at least that'll, be a fun day of testing, and that is basically it but full disclosure. Furthermore, I did shoot this video on Wednesday this week because my schedule has gone completely up the spout. So inevitably, all the tech news is going to happen on Thursday. I guarantee it's. Some big will happen.

Lg will announce that the whole mobile phones thing was just a big ruse, and it's actually going to launch 20 new phones in June- or you know, apple- will just explode or something but anyhow enough funny and about inevitably is the time for the part of the show that's about as joyful as a Werner Herzog documentary about cancer. Of it's fewer comments, fewer comments, now, apologies again for the stupidly long intro. Last week I have been huffing a little too much hand sanitizer. Unfortunately, in my spare time, uh yeah. I think that an entire portion of my brain around this area here is just basically shut down or given up entirely uh.

So Catherine says please no more hippie style intros just continue to give us tech talk and banter. Consider yourself, ticktock and wanted at rapids 444 says the intro was slightly disturbing. Uh Jed bullet says I made my wife watch the intro. With her eyes closed now she won't speak to me sorry's about that Jed uh. I drive Mr Wang sock if you want to borrow him for the night uh jimmy gets me, though, credit where it's due three minutes of drawing our bollocks to deliver a mum gag respect, yeah, possibly the longest your mum gag in history.

I'm going to have to write to Guinness about that. One aren't I, as in the world records chaps, not the uh, the brewery at all. You know what if they want to like to sponsor me or something I wouldn't say no to that. I lost lots more comments about it. Uh peppy butt says hey while you're doing my mom.

Can you remind her to buy some milk we're out of milk? Yeah? Sorry dude, you can't hear me too well, she's a bit of a screamer, your mum, uh Eric, says bro. What shots did you get you sound more damaged than usual? I love it I've you know just the usual blend of whiskey, tequila and absinthe everything. A grown boy needs uh, David ashore says instructions unclear, took up smoking and bought an iPhone. Oh, David uh Neil b says how relaxing the star was. I nearly fell asleep and missed the main feature of you, rambling, on about nothing Fairfax uh, but the thought of you in a lake with my mum was not so good as she's been dead for some years now.

Uh yeah, that's uh! Apologies, that's probably proper nightmare fuel right there. Isn't it uh moving swiftly on uh next up, doomed says: what's with the lack of these so-called retro gaming handsets when it comes to more 3d stuff like n64, ps1 and game cube, all the proper, like 64-bit shenanigans, yeah, definitely 100 as much as I love like the old spectrum. Commodore classics. All of that I get my fill of those pretty swiftly. Usually it'd be great to relive some of those PlayStation classics give it.

You know like the resident evils, the silent hills, Dino crisis too. I used to absolutely adore and of course you can do a lot on your laptop or whatever, but to be able to do it like wherever you go even on the bogs that would be bloody, brilliant, they did the PlayStation 1 classic, which was just a tiny little uh console designed to hook up to your TV. If you do it's something like that, and surely they can do it just a handheld version with the screen right, but none of these 20 pre-installed games, and then you're done bollocks you'd have to you know the ability to stick in a memory card just loaded with ROMs and play whatever you want. I don't know you can do PlayStation emulation on the Nintendo Switch, which I guess is kind of the same thing, but apparently it's quite Jacky. I've never actually tried it I'll have to give that a go sometime report back next up Michael says how come you're using an iPhone.

Are you Chris, as evil twin um? I think I am the evil twin mate, there's, probably some really prissy goody, two-shoes version of me who goes around not drinking and not seeing cuts all the time and on the same subject here bomb says: love the apple bastion while holding an iPhone 12 mini yourself, long term review incoming and yes, you 100 guessed that correctly that little beauty went live earlier in the week. I just thought: I'd revisit some older phones. While I had a bit of a gap in the phone launch schedule, of course, that is coming crash into a halt next week, spoiler alert uh next up Amir says my personal question is: are you a single parent uh? I am not thanked Christ because I really do not know how single parents cope in all honesty. There isn't enough alcohol on this planet. Surely, like a bit of Bradford love in the comments as well Christian says, I'm actually from Bradford uh Chris Tyson says, love and the shout-out for Bradford hashtag, Bradford excellent I'll have to remember to use hashtag Bradford when I'm promoting the show hands up, though I've never actually been to Bradford been in that area a few times, good old, Leeds and stuff, of course, but never set foot in the lovely township of Bradford so definitely have to add it to the list for the expert world tour.

When the world's a bit less plague and by textbook world tour, I basically mean I'm just going to visit these places go to the cheapest bar. I could find probably good old spoonier's, of course, prop up the bar and drink all the beer and next to you saw juice or sorry, probably completely molded pronunciation of that says talking about the weather here in Finland it was minus three and snowing and yeah at times like that, basically lockdown's, just all academic aren't they because basically outside can go do one, and I know I used to live up in the northeast of England, and you know I'd be there on a Friday night in December, in the middle of a blizzard in my short sleeve shirt, be like oh it's a little nippy today or whatever I've been. You know, you'd have your beer jacket and all that, but I just couldn't do that anymore. I've been standing up far too long. I've basically turned into a massive.

So as soon as it looks a little blustery out there, I'm like oh get the hat and the coat on and all that next up, Fukuoka Yoko says greetings from bloody Germany, where the weather is almost as crappy as England yeah. We are kind of kindred spirits when it comes to the shitless and grayness of uh, the everyday weather, but at least you know, you've got umpire bands and lederhosen and delicious pretzels and steins of golden nectar and top-notch sausage, not to lean too heavily on those Bavarian stereotypes or anything top-notch sausage. I bet you get some interesting. Google results if you type that one in that's for sure, and no I'm not gonna. Do that just know next up Dan says ill or whiskey um both please I mean.

If I had to absolutely choose one of them, it would be ill because these days I have the tolerance of a toddler. So basically, if I started the night on whiskey, then busy I'd be face down underneath the table align it in a pool of my own juices, with my pants around my ankles before you can even see it bottoms up next up. Chris r says I have a tech question. Am I in the right place, uh? Well, it kind of depends on Chris or whether you want like an accurate or well-informed answer. Personally gotta say I prefer banging on about booze or just myself in general, but go on then, if you absolutely must uh.

So the question is: if the, if the Lenovo does the chrome, OS tablet with android apps exists, why isn't there a chrome OS phone with the same stuff? Well, I guess the chrome OS was designed specifically to be used with a big screen and like a keyboard and stuff as well, um but yeah. I mean there's no reason why, as you see, if the likes of the tablet exist, why it couldn't exist on a smartphone as well, maybe in the form of like the Microsoft Surface Duo, or something like that. I do need to get back into reviewing Chromebooks and stuff because they are usually quite popular, and you know I do like a good Chromebook as well. The problem is the good things about Chromebooks the fact that they're small light portable great battery life, all that stuff, it's great when you can actually go out and visit places, but in you know, post moved, work from home drudgery, there's just no point, hopefully that'll change soon. Here in blight, though, and we'll start getting actual press events again with free bars, because my god I've spent so much money on alcohol, I need a good free bar sometimes just to keep me topped up without draining my bloody savings.

Next up, Nell runtime coops says: am I the only one who thinks of country file when I hear your voice, uh country fell? Are you sure you're not just thinking? I've got a minute. I've never actually seen that sure, but if and when, inevitably this tech shenanigans all falls on its horse like a fat lad after 15 pints, maybe I'll see, if you know the BBC or someone like that, will hire me and yeah. Furthermore, I could definitely see myself doing one of those shows just about in the countryside. Furthermore, I mean certainly seems like I'm getting into reviewing. You know.

Local pubs out in the sticks always good fun, something straight out of American werewolf in London. You know warm flat beer check angry. Looking patrons check, snowing ROG that attacks you when you get too close check, pickled egg and pork pies. That gave me the runs for a week check four disease. Badges out of five would recommend next up.

Lemony snickers says thoughts on the ICU before 8, potentially being a punch, hole, Bobby um, see uh for anyone who missed them. The little streamers on the before 8 is that the standard before 8 model is going to be just a standard compact smartphone without the flippy cam, which we had, of course on the before 6 and the before 7 models. But there will also apparently be a before 8 pro of some description, which is a bit bigger, and it retains that flip camera, and I've got to say. I would be absolutely torn between the two models, because I love compact smartphones, they're, easy to use one-handed, but I'm also a sucker for silly jazzy tech like the flip up camera. That then becomes the selfie cam means, of course, then you've got no punch, hole, you've got full view, experience up front uh, which is great, and I'm always a sucker.

If you know silly things like the old pop-up, selfie cams, which were always very entertaining, and sadly all but extinct these days, but that launches next week, uh and more on that towards the end of the show so stay tuned for all. You need to know on that bad boy. Our next comment is from Wolfe Kruger, which, by the way, that is a kick-ass name, you've got like a ferocious wild animal and the best stubby serial killer movie, villain of all time, so yeah. If that's your real name, then you know kudos to your parents mate, that is, that is quality. Uh wolf says: why is a male in my 50s? Do I find the word willy funny because it just is its just inherently hilarious, it's one of those inexplicable things? Uh like.

Why is jams Borden still on TV, and why is Mrs brown's boys keep getting renewed for another bloody series? Next up wizard says any news about the new Xperia release day. It's absolutely buggered, all I'm afraid early summer is still uh all that we've got to go on, so that could mean anything from next month. To probably august I mean, when is the British summer: let's face it, it's always a sketchy little gray area somewhere in the middle of the year, but let's face it, it's just as really and miserable as the rest of it. So it's kind of hard to tell that's funny. I love you, but you love to keep us in suspense.

Don't you bugger and next up Peru says: do you think that the new Xperia 5 mark 3 is worth the money, or should I buy the mark ii when the price drops? I mean it's such a short amount of time between the two like six months, I know somebody always used to your know: release two flagship phones a year and everything but yeah, there's not a huge gulf in terms of the actual specs, the hardware, the features between them. Some of those new camera features. I do wonder if they will come to the mark ii in an update anyway. So my sort of early feeling is that, just by the mark ii, but of course I've touched the mark iii, let alone you know how to proper play with it. Yet it might be that some you know the performance boost.

Some extra features and stuff are well worth the extra cost, so stay tuned. I'm afraid on that one, and I've absolutely run out of time yet again spur made this. The last one, uh Johannes, says that you're slowly descending into madness, and its magnificent sight to behold- um, I'm not really sure about the slow bit, but the rest of it sounds legit, and I suppose, if nothing else, then textbook weekly will prove some sort of form of documentation of my slippery slides down that slope into just utter batteries. We should probably go back and look at episode, one which I shot. I think it was just before the whole corvid pandemic thing broke out.

I'd, probably look at a lot less haggard and like dead behind the eyes. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So much to everyone who commented last week was brilliant reading your comments.

Please do comment down below as well we'll get through as many of those as possible in the next week. Oh, excuse me more and speaking of next week, so yeah this week, absolute radio silence next week, all the phones under the tech as well starting on Tuesday, the 11th abuse is launching some very sexy new laptops. You can expect some republic of gamer uh, laptop gaming shenanigans and also some creator notebooks thrown into the mix as well. So that'll be a big deal for laptop fans uh, but their big launch is Wednesday. The 12th ASUS is going to be back at it with some new engines.

The new before 8 expect two new models, possibly a before 8 and a before 8 pro, and I might have a tasty bit of video action. Uh ready to go for you on that one. So stay tuned for all of that. Uh. Also, that day, the real me8 5g is launching here in the UK as well, so again expect some hands-on shenanigans.

A day later Thursday, the 13th at will be launching the fresh new at accent, 30 ultra, which is a proper beefcake flagship smartphone with some backup mental camera tech. So if you drop by tech expert on Thursday again, you might see a bit of hands-on video action and then, after all of that on Friday, of course, good old textbook weekly join me noon on Friday. As always, if I'm already passed out in a pool of my own blood and feces by then so yeah, it's going to be gonna. Be pretty relentless expect that notifications bell of yours to be dinging non-stop, because of course you have poked the uh. The notifications bell thing.

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