Tech Spurt Weekly Ep44 | Nokia 5.4, Google outage By Tech Spurt

Hello gorgeous peeps welcome to another banging episode of expert weekly, the only weekly tech news show that makes less sense than watching a David lynch, film, dubbed into Flemish after chowing down on a whole bag of drugs, although actually to be fair, maybe a bag of drugs is exactly what you need before. You watch a David lynch film, I'm not really sure, and here we are just a four night away from the end of this wank splat of a year and of course, just one week away from good old Christmas day, with the added bonus that we've got. The perfect excuse this year, not to see the extended family. That means no having to go around to the mother-in-law's on Christmas days. That means I don't have to pretend not to be a rage and alcoholic. I don't have to wear smartest clothes or indeed clothes, of any description I don't have to hold in my farts during dinner.

I don't have to surreptitiously hock my mother-in-law's brussels sprouts into my napkin, when everyone's distracted by the youngest cousin thrown up all over the broccoli now this year, I'll basically be on my sofa munching a buttered turkey leg in my skinnies, but anyway I digress that festive fun is still like a week away after gotten, every expanded pile of review kit to get through there are still launches going on it's a week to Christmas people what is happening this year, so we better crack on expert weekly, so yeah, even though we're still just one week away from Christmas that hasn't stopped the relentless tech launch machine. This week it was HMD global's tend to launch a new smartphone seriously guys take a holiday. Just go get so up at your work Christmas party. They can't reliably function again until 2021 and then maybe I'll actually get a few days off. So their big launch this week was the Nokia 5.4, a moody, Wii bugger that comes in two distinctly cheery colors, polar knight or dusk. This 6.4 inch budget delight sports, similar specs to Motorola's, motor, g9 player and power, including a HD plus display, and that same snapdragon, 662 chipsets. So as I found on the likes of the motor g9 play and that Poco m3 as well, the everyday running should be all right.

Maybe the odd judder here and there, but you do get the arena 610 packed onto that chipset and, as usual, that GPU should easily be able to handle the likes of your call of duties and your pub g's and all that good stuff. Where you get shot in the head from about 50 yards away by 12-year-old, that you couldn't even see stop playing video games and do your bloody homework. Your little, the 4 000 William battery isn't nearly as big as the 5 000 William effort crammed into the g9 play, or even the 6 000 William 1 stuffed into the g9 power, as well as that Poco m3. But you should still comfortably get well over a day of use. Thanks to the clean stock version of android, stuffed on there and as usual, HMD is promising two years of OS updates and three years of security updates.

At least you know your Nokia 5.4 is going to stay fresh for the foreseeable and HMD made a big thing about the camera tech too, with a 48 megapixel primary snapper that apparently completely eradicates shutter lag and the Nokia 5.4 also has the same cinema mode as more premium handsets for shooting 21x9 footage at 24 frames per second plus, of course, there's a 5 megapixel ultra-wide angle, lens, there's a basic depth sensor and psi two megapixel macro lens because of course there is you've, also got NFC support for your contactless payments in select regions. You've also got micro, SD memory card support to expand the 64 or 128 gigs of onboard storage, depending on which model you go for and hippie hooray a headphone jack too, and the follow those hot tech specs got you rather hot under the collar. The great news is, you can snuffle your very own Nokia 5.4 right here in blight from today for 160 quid, but is actually any goods well stay tuned for another video of me nibbling on about it in depth. Once I actually get my hands on one lot of other random tech stuff going on this week, but of course the other big news was uh, google deciding that it just couldn't be with 2020 anymore, just like the rest of us then, and it basically just shut its pants and left users without access to all the major online stuff. Like YouTube, Google Drive Gmail all that good stuff.

The outage lasted for about an hour, and then everything was fine and dandy again and at the time I shot this google still hadn't explained what actually happened. So, I'm just going to assume that it was the server's gain and sentience and testing the waters a bit for the upcoming 2021 machine uprising, and on that cherry note it's time. Regrettably, for the part of the show that made me wish, I had a spare noose kicking about in a draw somewhere. It's viewer comments, fewer comments right so um. So last week I tried my level best to wipe out any lingering fan base that this channel might still have by basically talking about a stupid dream.

I have for three minutes at the start of the show, and not only that, but it was about dale Winston, who was a celebrity that guaranteed pretty much no one outside the UK would have even heard of, and apparently it turns out that one of my fellow northerners is actually an expert in dream analysis as a soul counselor. Thank you for your input, sir says as an expert in dream analysis. Its simple themes of dreams are about. What's going on in your unconsciousness, dale Winston represents your funny character. His death in the cemetery represent changes in your life, so basically the dream is telling you to stop chasing something that is gone.

That'll probably be my hairline then, and stick with your funny and flamboyant character and stop worrying about it. You're welcome and up the borough now fair play. You managed to make some sort of sense out of the uh the ludicrous there so top marks um actually for next week mate. I did have another strange dream. Just the other day, I was busy sat there, peeling lots and lots of bananas in quick succession very rapidly, while Ariana Grande was doing a little dance in a swimsuit and then, when I woke up, my pajamas were really sticky.

Weird David has a completely different analysis of my dream. He says your dream seems to indicate a deep desire for a thick full head of hair and to perhaps present an episode of supermarket sweep. I mean correct on both counts, be perfectly I mean who wouldn't want to present an episode of supermarket sweep right. The pun. Potential is just absolutely magnificent: here, comes frank's, spuds in hands and meanwhile Dorian's distracted by the Spanish sausage, etc.

, etc. , and also Bézier, Jedi or feed peed or four, I'm not sure how to pronounce. That also has an interesting spin on it. He basically thinks that the dream was a metaphor for my ongoing battle to cover every Motorola phone ever launched. Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in with a dozen more goddamn smartphones, uh afford, a regular here at expert weekly said he actually met deal once they said.

Dale Kim wants into my pub in Nottingham the admiral Duncan uh Tuesday night. It was. He tried to push forward to get served quickly, didn't work for me and rightly saw duff, and me you'd have to be like of dale look. I respect your contribution to lighthearted daytime entertainment in the 1990s and your ability to warm the cockles of the nation with little more than a cheeky wink and a bit of pg-friendly banter, but seriously we're British no cut sees, not even for our cherished celebrities. Even if the queen came in here with four of her corgis I'd be like oi queenie.

Sorry, no dogs allowed in the parlor an extra BAZ anime says dude seriously, no cheese and vodka before beds. Do you think it was the cheese in the vodka? Maybe I'll just lay off the cheese just to be on the safe side uh, and he also continues by the way 888 was the teletext TV guide? Oh, god yeah Christ back in the day, classic used to use that all the freaking time when my mum forgot to get was at the radio times magazine or whatever, and I would absolutely love that as well. If Qualcomm actually named this new snapdragon flagship chipset after the bloody TV guide on a bit of fax- and you know what completely random tangent now, what I only just discovered about a week or two ago was that tiny text actually had an adult, only section which came on at about 10 30 11 o'clock at night called after hours. Apparently it was filled with like pervy quizzes and like naughty confessions and stuff, but it sounded very, very British. So it's probably all stuff like.

Oh, I was making love with me, Harold, the other night, and we actually turned the light on uh next up, Matt from across the podcast, with Sam and mat ton a Sunday evenings, go check that out kraken parallels. He says uncle spurs epic Call of Duty death counter, I mean yeah, my kill to death ratio isn't particularly great gotta say, and the problem is that I play all of these online multiplayer games, like I used to play. Games like doom back in the day. Basically running around, like my ass, is on fire spraying lead everywhere until someone pops a shotgun shell in my face, and that was fine back in the 1990s, because that's how everyone played he didn't have sniper rifles or anything like that. He just had mini guns and rocket launchers, because kids these days, it's all tactics and teamwork.

Little oh, my also continues Chris, you should also be wearing a bloody Christmas hat and a beard well tune in next week, uh for the special Christmas episode of textbook weekly, going out on Christmas day, no less, and you might be pleasantly surprised or probably at the Santa. At the very least, the beard will probably be my own to be fair, and it will be proper white by this time next week, because it's really getting there now seriously check this out. I've got some serious gray going on in here now and about 50 of this is down to bloody Motorola uh. Next up our MCQ says: hi is apple given one year free subscriptions to their services, like Apple TV plus, with the purchase of the Apple AirPods, max as they are with the iPhones. I ordered mine, and they'll be delivered within eight to ten weeks here in the UK it took ten weeks plus, yet they only make like 50 of them or something um.

Suddenly, I don't think they are giving away free subscriptions to Apple TV with the AirPods max, despite the ludicrous cost, but frankly they should be giving away apple DVD for free, because it's a bit of back. I did really, really like that ted lasso, whatever it was called the American dude who comes over to manage a British team. That was perfect. Everything else. Absolutely dire.

Next up, says AirPods max costs more than my phone. I'm pretty sad. Now, don't be sad mate, I'm pretty sure those things cost more than most people's phones. They cost more than my first car for god's makes. Uh path says where I live.

Those Apple AirPods max would be pulled off people's heads yeah and heaven help you if you actually carry them around in that little broad, carry case thing, and obviously I'm not saying that if you do those things you deserve to get mugs, but frankly it would be a little like strolling around eternal with a t-shirt that reads: he-man is an it's probably not going to end well for you next up mike m, says: don't worry, you still don't have hair, oh cheers mate. I was getting kind of concerned there that it might have grown back inexplicably, but phew no still bugger all up there. Next up, I am adient ii, says Chris. If you're ever in Melbourne, Australia, let's go for drinks. Oh, excuse me um yeah.

That sounds like a plan. I've never actually been to was before, but I could definitely use a bit of winter sun just to prevent myself from turning completely transparent and out of curiosity, what's the sort of big beers of choice out in us. Uh right now is the likes of the craft deals and all that sort of stuff sort of uh protruded into there yeah or just still, a classic bit of the old lagers, and all that quite refreshing on a sunny day, of course. So I did actually go to New Zealand about 15 years ago for a couple of weeks and, to be mildly, polite. The beer there was kind of like drinking a can of parrots piss.

It got so bad that in one pub I actually paid the equivalent of about eight British pounds for a bottle of Newcastle brown. Just so I could drink something that tasted vaguely like beer, of course, I'm sure they've sorted it out by now. That was a long time ago, but anyway, I digress ritual 32, says hi any chance for an update on the sabra elite 75t after the noise-cancelling update. Yes, I still need to actually get back on that I've still got the 75t, so I will provide an update for that and hopefully actually review the 85 t's at some point too. All right better make this the last one for the week, because I've got, as I say, quite a bit to get through uh, so Patrick says talking mode roller.

You begin to wonder why they bothered bringing out the one series uh. Certainly the guarantee of updates was reassuring, considering how hit-and-miss they've been with the g series in the past and indeed with most of their smartphones. But where are the one series replacements? I'm guessing? The concept has been quietly buried now yeah, I'm 100 with you on that one. It was really, really weird. It seemed like at one point: there was like a new one series, smartphone coming out like every other day pretty much, and they also introduced, like one new feature that the others didn't have.

So there was like one with that had a macro lens. There was one that did the action cam thing where you could run around with it held like this, and it would shoot horizontal footage uh with stabilization. I mean what they basically felt like was just experimental phones, just testing out these new features before they chucked them into their real phones as it were, but yeah I'm not expecting to see another mod or one phone anytime soon, which let's face it, I'm not exactly 100 gutted about that anyway. Huge. Thank you to everyone who commented uh last week.

Apologies if I didn't get around to your comments just time now for a quick look ahead, uh and what we've got here is. Oh on Monday, it's the at axon 25g global release, and this is a notable smartphone because it's the first one to launch globally with an under display selfie cam. So it's actually integrated under the display no notches or little sphincter, pinhole cutout things so make sure you come back on Monday morning. I think it is UK time for a bit of hands-on sexiness with that bad boy. I'll have some other bits going live during the week and then on Friday.

Please do join me for the final textbook weekly of 2020. We made it guys you now with a special Christmas episode, so yeah tuck into your mince pies down your whiskey and then yeah watch some bold banging on at you as usual. If you've got any Christmas joy to spread, then definitely bung it down in the comments below. Please do have yourselves a lovely weekend and stay safe, and I'll. See you next week cheers everyone loves you.

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