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Scotsman
3 hours ago
- Scotsman
Full list of refurbished tech deals on Wowcher – up to 80% off
Refurbished tech deals on Wowcher include everything from iPhones and Apple Watches to tablets, laptops and gaming towers – all at up to 80% off. | Wowcher This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. Wowcher is full of refurbished Apple, Samsung and gaming tech right now – here's the full list of bargains, from cheap iPhones to powerful laptops. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... If you're after a new gadget but don't fancy paying top dollar, Wowcher's refurbished tech section is a goldmine. From iPhones under £20 to MacBooks for less than the cost of a dinner out, there are deals here that seem too good to be true – but they're real, and flying off the virtual shelves. This is more than just phones and laptops. We spotted wireless earbuds, e-sports gaming towers, even smart doorbells and memory foam mattresses in the mix. Some items are fully refurbished, others are new or open-box, and in most cases you're getting up to 80% off the original price. Here's our full round-up of what's currently available – and where to click to grab the best bits before they disappear. Editor's Picks – the best bargains under £100 iPhone Lucky Dip – from £19.99 You read that right. This Wowcher deal gets you a genuine unlocked iPhone from a random generation – for less than twenty quid. A gamble, but an irresistible one. Apple iPad Mini (1st Gen) – now £29.99 (was £129.99) Perfect for light browsing, games or kids, this compact tablet is still a great travel companion – and it's under £30. Samsung Galaxy Smart Watch – from £39 (was £199.99) A stylish GPS smart watch with charging dock and three colour options, down by a whopping 80%. Smartphones (Apple & Android) • iPhones: Every generation from iPhone 4 to iPhone 14, including SE models, XS Max, 11, 12, 13 and 14 Pro – from just £19.99 • Samsung Galaxy: A-series, S-series, Z Flip4, Tab Active Pro, and Galaxy Book Pro laptop hybrid – from £13.99 • Other brands: Nokia Lumia, HTC Desire, BlackBerry, Motorola Moto G, Mobiwire Aponi – from £12.99 • Lucky dip options for both iPhones and Lumia handsets also available Smartwatches & Earbuds • Samsung Galaxy Smart Watch with GPS – from £39 Tablets • iPads: iPad 2 through to iPad Pro 12.9' 5th Gen, including Mini, Air, and all standard Gen models – from £29 • Samsung tablets: Tab S2, Tab Active, Tab Active Pro – from £49 • Amazon Kindle Fire – from £29.99 • Windows tablets: Linx, Miix, Surface Pro 7+ – from £79 Laptops, Chromebooks & MacBooks • MacBook Air & Pro: 2011–2019 models – from £129 • iMac desktops: From £379 • Windows laptops: Dell Latitude, Lenovo ThinkPad, HP ProBook, Toshiba Satellite – from £99 • Gaming laptops & desktops: RGB gaming towers with monitors – from £189 • Chromebooks: Dell, Lenovo, Acer, HP – from £44.99 • Bundles: Laptop tech bundles with SSDs, accessories, and randomised brands Accessories & Extras • Ring Smart Doorbell – from £49 • Pinnacle Studio software licence – £38.80 • Kids' piggy bank with password and music – £14.99 • Branded eco-friendly golf balls (yes, really) – £29.99 for 50 balls Gaming PCs & Bundles • RGB and eSports-ready towers with i5 or i7 processors, dual monitors, GT730/GT1030 or AMD graphics – from £135 • Dell and Lenovo towers optimised for streaming and multi-tasking – from £250 • High-spec Xeon bundles for power users Mattresses • Emma Hybrid, Original, and Thermosync memory foam mattresses – refurbished and new – from £149 • Available in all sizes, with free or reduced P&P • Savings of up to 58% – a left-field option in a tech sale, but hey, comfort matters Why it's worth a look The savings here aren't just on paper – many of these deals beat equivalent refurb prices at places like Back Market, Amazon Renewed or even Apple's own certified refurb store. And while Wowcher doesn't always carry a massive stock, some of the options (like the Apple Watch SE 2022 for under £100) are almost impossible to find anywhere else at the same price. If you're after a cheap way to upgrade your tech, whether for work, travel, or play, this is the time to act. You won't see an Apple Watch Ultra at £439 every day. Smarty Smarty 200GB SIM card £ 12.00 Smarty Buy now Buy now Pros: 200GB of data, No mid-contract price rises, Can be cancelled at any time Cons: Only 12GB can be used in Europe Smarty is a great option if you are a heavy data user. The 200GB SIM is a huge amount of data and at £12 it represents the best data-per-pound ratio in the SIM cards we checked. Smarty promises no in-contract price rises and you can cancel at any time. It is one of the easiest SIM providers to actually cancel your deal. You can use 12GB of the data abroad and it also comes with free calls and texts. Smarty offers 4G and 5G, and uses Three's network in the UK. Canva Get beach-ready with MySweetSmile's gentle teeth whitening range £ 20.99 Buy now Buy now Sunshine, selfies and holiday cocktails – summer is here, and so are all the moments you'll want to capture with a glowing smile. Whether you're jetting off for a beach escape or heading to a sunny staycation, MySweetSmile can help you look your best. This UK best-seller offers peroxide-free, gentle whitening that works its magic without harsh ingredients or faff. Their powder is perfect for whitening before take-off, while the handy on-the-go pen is great for keeping your smile photo-ready poolside. Shop the full MySweetSmile summer-ready range here.
Tom's Guide
4 hours ago
- Tom's Guide
Snagdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 details just leaked — this is how powerful the Galaxy S26 Ultra could be
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 — the chipset expected to power the Samsung Galaxy S26, OnePlus 14 and more phones next year — looks to be way more powerful than today's best smartphone chips, says leaker Digital Chat Station on Weibo. DCS explains this by talking about the chip's clock speeds, with the CPU running at 4.6GHz and the GPU at Those numbers perhaps don't mean much to you by themselves, but generally the higher the frequency, the faster a chip runs and the more powerful it is. While Qualcomm, maker of the Snapdragon chips, has apparently decreased the CPU frequency from 5GHz in earlier tests, it's still running quicker than the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which is set to 4.47GHz. Plus, this latest iteration of the 8 Elite Gen 2 still apparently hits the 4-million mark on the AnTuTu benchmark, way ahead of the 2.6 million score that currently tops the leaderboard. This info builds on previous DCS leaks, where they detailed that the 8 Elite Gen 2 will be a third-generation 3-nanometer chip, built by TSMC, using a 2+6 prime/performance core arrangement with 2nd-gen Oryon CPU cores and an Adreno 840 GPU. Simply put, this chip will use the latest construction methods, the same internal set-up as the 8 Elite chip it'll replace, and the newest processing tech. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Despite that, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 may not cost any more than the 8 Elite does. Good news for consumers and manufacturers alike. We can fairly safely assume that Qualcomm will also be working on an even faster version for later in 2026. That includes Samsung, who has been using "For Galaxy" variants of the latest Snapdragon flagship silicon for the past few years in Galaxy S and Galaxy Z models. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2's main opponent will be, as always, Apple's latest iPhones and the new chips within. A generic "Leading Version" will likely launch midway through 2026, and be used in certain performance-focused phones launching in the latter half of the year. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2's main opponent will be, as always, Apple's latest iPhones and the new chips within. In September, we should see the iPhone 17 series debut along with the A19 and A19 Pro chips, and we'll be paying close attention to their performance. Apple's A-series chips have not had a leap forward in chip power in the past few years like Snapdragon 8 chips have, so we could be in for a close competition. Qualcomm normally introduces its new Snapdragon 8 series chips to the world in fall each year, during an annual event in Hawaii. This year's Snapdragon Summit is already in the calendar for September 23 - 25, so we should hopefully get the full details of this new smartphone powerhouse then. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Daily Mail
5 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Moment phone thieves are arrested with £100,000 haul of Apple watches and 100 iPhones plus a machete just minutes after they raided West End store
Around 100 iPhones with an estimated value of £100,000 were found in the back of a car within minutes of a burglary at an O2 store in London. The stolen goods were located in a car stopped by officers, where a number of Apple watches and a large machete were also found. Three men wearing balaclavas reportedly entered the store in the West End on Thursday before the raid took place. Police bodycam footage shows one man getting arrested on a nearby street as he his told he 'matches a description of males who have gone into an O2 store and stolen some phones'. A stash of iPhones can then be seen in the footwell of the back seat of a car, which was pulled over by police on a nearby street. An officer continues to pull out several iPhones from a bag and throws them onto the growing pile. The footage also shows a large black machete being recovered from the car. Officers were called at 7.17pm and arrested three men aged 25, 24 and 18, on suspicion of aggravated burglary and taken into custody, where they remain. Chief Superintendent Jason Stewart, responsible for policing in Camden, said: 'We know people are concerned about crime in the West End and these arrests are just one example of the hard work officers are doing every day to proactively target offenders and make the area safer. 'We're working closely with businesses to focus on tackling the crimes that cause a misery to the lives of their staff, as well as residents and visitors. 'Across London we're arresting 1,000s more criminals each month, neighbourhood crime is down 19 per cent and we've solved 163 per cent more shoplifting cases this year. 'Through precise community crimefighting we will continue to focus our resources and bear down on prolific offenders and criminal gangs.' Last month, 10 men were arrested as part of a separate investigation into robberies at phone shops in London and across the south of England. Detectives identified an organised crime group believed to be behind 13 robberies between February and early June.
CNET
5 hours ago
- CNET
I Want Apple to Steal These Android Camera Features for the iPhone 17
The iPhone 16 Pro already has a great camera system capable of taking photos so good you'd think they were taken on pro-level mirrorless cameras. I love the quality of all three rear lenses, and while I like recent features like the Photographic Styles and of course Apple's ProRaw image format, I think there's more the company can do to help photographers take their best ever photos. I've spent 14 years reviewing iPhones and Android phones from all brands for CNET, and as a professional photographer I've always had an eye toward testing the cameras of top models like the Galaxy S25 Ultra and Pixel 9 Pro. In that time, I've found a variety of features that I'd love to see Apple incorporate into its upcoming iPhone 17. So let's get started. Samsung's My Filters color filter clone My Filters, as Samsung sometimes calls it, is a little tool hidden inside recent Galaxy camera phones that essentially lets you steal the color tones from one image and apply them to another. Say you found a lovely photo online with dreamy pastel tones and warm highlights. You can save that image to your phone (even a screenshot of it will do), load it into the filter creation tool within the camera app and it will then create a new filter that aims to replicate the tones of that image. That filter will then be saved to your phone for you to apply to all your images later on. The original image (left) and the edited version using my custom filter (right). I love the warmer tones, the teal sky and the film grain. It's given it a very vintage look and I really like it. Andrew Lanxon/CNET While the filters it creates are not always especially accurate to the source image (sometimes the effects can be quite subtle), I do like the results you can get from it. I've been able to create some lovely filmic looks that I've customized to try and give the impression of old Kodak film stocks. Apple's Photographic Styles is the nearest thing the iPhone has, and while some of the looks are nice enough, there's not a lot of scope for getting truly creative with colors, film grain and other effects. I'd love to see Apple expand on its Photographic Styles tool to give the sort of filmic looks Fujifilm has achieved so well with its customizable 'recipes' on its ever-popular cameras like the X100VI. The Nothing Phone 3 has a great macro mode. Andrew Lanxon/CNET Nothing Phone 3's Macro Mode I wasn't all that impressed with the Nothing Phone 3 in my recent review and a large part of that was down to the overall disappointing camera performance. But it does have one saving grace in its macro mode. As someone who runs a photography YouTube channel specializing in macro photography, I feel I have a pretty high bar on what looks good when it comes to close up photos of tiny things like insects or flowers, and even I have to admit that this phone takes superb close-up photos. The iPhone 16 Pro also has a macro function which utilizes the ultra-wide lens to achieve close-up focusing. And while it certainly succeeds in getting up close and personal with whatever insect you happen to find, images don't always look great from it. I've found colors to look a little drab and though it can focus very close to the lens, it results in a very wide-angle view that requires you getting your phone extremely close to an insect, likely scaring it off. I found Nothing's macro mode to look much more natural in its image processing, with vibrant colors. As it doesn't appear to rely on the ultra-wide lens, it gives a closer view on your subject without the wide angle distortion. Fine, macro photography might be a niche use, but it's also something that anyone with a phone can do (versus having dedicated macro equipment). I'd still love to see Apple work on its close up skills. With the grip attached you can hold and use the Xiaomi 15 Ultra just like a regular compact camera. Andrew Lanxon/CNET Xiaomi's 15 Ultra camera grip I loved Xiaomi's 14 Ultra and 15 Ultra phones, finding them capable of taking some of the best photos I've ever seen from phone cameras. There's a lot of reasons why these phones are great for photographers, but one of my favorite things about shooting with them are the Xiaomi-made accessories, including the camera grip and filter mount. The grip in particular is super helpful as it allows you to hold the phone just like a regular compact camera, while the built-in shutter button makes it easier to snap away without having to tap the screen. The filter mount meanwhile allows me to use the same professional screw-in filters (like pro-mist, circular polarizers or neutral density filters) that I use with my professional camera kit. Apple doesn't make a camera grip for the iPhone and while there are various third party ones, I haven't found many I really love to use. The Leica Lux grip is as well-built as you'd expect from the iconic photography brand, but it relies on MagSafe which feels risky trusting your phone to hold in place only with magnets and it will only work with the Leica app, not with the default iPhone camera app. (Oh, and it's a nearly $400 accessory.) Leica's Lux grip attaches only using MagSafe and I wouldn't really want to trust it to hold my phone in place when I'm walking quickly around town. Andrew Lanxon/CNET Xiaomi's kit, being made by the company itself and for the specific phone, works seamlessly, connecting securely to the phone and working as expected with the default camera app. The iPhone is amazing as an everyday carry camera, but it could be elevated dramatically if Apple created hardware accessories specifically for photographers. Xiaomi 14 Ultra's variable aperture While I'm on the topic of Xiaomi, the company's 14 Ultra is definitely worth stealing from. In particular, the variable aperture in its main camera can go from wide open at f/1.7 and close down to f/4. Most phones have a fixed aperture and while you'd rarely notice the difference, when it comes to night-time photography, the Xiaomi 14 Ultra was amazing. By closing down the aperture, I was able to create authentic starburst effects around points of light like streetlights in exactly the same way that you would by using a narrow aperture with a mirrorless camera and lens on a tripod. I loved the images I captured with the phone as they looked so much more professional than the weird amorphous blobs seen around light sources in night photos from other phones. The starburst on the streetlight makes this image what it is. Andrew Lanxon/CNET I won't hold my breath on this one as even Xiaomi didn't stick with the technology for long. While the company made a big deal about it on the 14 Ultra, when it launched the 15 Ultra a year later, the variable aperture was nowhere to be seen. Perhaps the mechanics make the phone too expensive to produce or maybe there just wasn't enough benefit -- or demand -- for starbursts in night photos. Either way, it was a real highlight for me and it's something I'd love to see Apple implement in the iPhone 17's camera. Xiaomi and Sony's external lens cameras Yes, I'm talking about Xiaomi again. But also Sony, so simmer down. At MWC earlier this year Xiaomi showed off a concept for a camera and lens unit that attaches to your phone but contains its own large image sensor and larger, higher-quality optics. It harnesses the computing power, image processing and larger display of your phone, but offers much better overall image quality than the tiny cameras in your phone are able to achieve. Unlike most phone camera lenses, this lens has actual iris blades to open and close the aperture. Andrew Lanxon/CNET Sony actually had a very similar idea itself all the way back in 2013, packing its QX100 and QX10 cameras with a large image sensor and full zoom lens, but no screen. Like the Xiaomi concept, it connected to a phone to act as the display. While Sony's product did go on sale, it never really took off and the company didn't return to the format, while Xiaomi's is firmly still in "concept" territory. I certainly won't be alone in having daydreamed about what an Apple camera would be like. Pairing the top-end image processing Apple is able to achieve with its iPhones with a significantly larger image sensor and pro-standard lens optics could result in an absolute photography powerhouse for both casual snappers and pros alike. And while I don't ever foresee the company launching an actual stand-alone camera, I'd love to see it create a camera unit like Sony's and Xiaomi's that's designed to work in tandem with an iPhone. Do I expect to see this at the iPhone 17 launch? Absolutely not. Will I dream about it anyway? Damn right.
Forbes
7 hours ago
- Forbes
Apple iOS 26: Will It Work On Your iPhone And How Do You Get It?
The next generation of iPhone software is now available in the form of a public beta which landed on Thursday, July 26. But it's not available for every iPhone user. Read on to see if your iPhone is included and, if it is, full instructions on how to download it right now. The public beta of iOS 26 is now available for selected iPhones. iOS 26 Public Beta: Which iPhones Work With It? The final version of the software won't be on general release until September, around the same time as the new iPhones go on sale — read this for full details of the timetable. But the list of compatible iPhones won't change between now and then. If you have any iPhone from the iPhone 11 (released in 2019) onwards, you're good to go. To be clear, here's the full list: iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max, iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13, 13 mini, 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max, iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro, 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max and the latest generation of iPhones. These are the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max and iPhone 16e. If you have the iPhone SE 2nd-generation or iPhone SE 3rd-generation, you're also covered. If you have a phone running the latest general-release software, iOS 18, almost all such iPhones can upgrade to iOS 26. The only iOS 18-compatible phones that won't run the new software are the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. All earlier iPhones, which are capable of iOS 17 or below, won't work with the new OS. Apple iOS 26 public beta is here. iOS Public Beta: How To Get It Please note, although the current public beta is pretty solid, it's not final software and so not recommended for your main iPhone. Do you have a secondary device on the list above? Use that. While my use of the beta suggests that battery life is not badly diminished, there are always upsets when individual apps don't work, for instance. It's also worth making an archived backup of your iPhone, too. Then, go to and sign up. Then, on your iPhone go to Software Update, which is under General in the Settings app. Click Beta Updates to choose the iOS 26 Public Beta. It's a big download — 17.4GB on my iPhone 16 Pro Max — so be patient.
