James Carver covers phones, storage, home networking and the everyday hardware questions readers search for. He works from makers' spec sheets, store prices and published reliability data such as Backblaze's drive statistics, and says plainly when the cheaper option is enough.
iPhone and Android compared on price, update promises and what switching actually involves.
SSDs and hard drives by speed, price per terabyte and published failure data.
Modems, routers and mesh systems, plus the free fixes to try for weak Wi-Fi before you buy anything.
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Updated 28 Oct 2026I work from makers' spec sheets, store prices and published data such as Backblaze's drive statistics, not from other reviews. If a maker doesn't publish a price, I say so instead of quoting a reseller, and every guide lists the pages I used and the date I checked them.
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